Clevedon Community Bookshop is an exciting community enterprise in Clevedon. It is owned and run by people in the Clevedon area and by others committed to our objectives. We buy and sell good second-hand books, some new books and cards. We plan to host associated activities such as reading groups, writing groups, poetry sessions and literary events.

We have set up a Community Co-operative, Clevedon Community Bookshop. You can become a member by buying a minimum of 10 shares at £1 each. The shares you purchase will make you a member of Clevedon Community Bookshop and provide working capital for the first year of trading and beyond, with an equal vote regardless of the size of your shareholding. Your involvement thereafter, as a customer and/or volunteer in and/or for the Bookshop, and/or by helping to shape the business, is as much or as little as you wish. Our business projects a move into profit by the end of the second year of trading and we will be reporting regularly on progress through a Members Newsletter and through General Meetings of the Co-operative.

Our Objectives

• to provide a book shop in Clevedon specialising in good second-hand books;
• to be a community led and operated co-operative enterprise;
• to offer opportunities for various community based arts, educational and social activities through the co-operative.

Background

For 14 years a small second hand bookshop existed in Copse Road. We have taken on this unit and doubled the area by renting the adjoining premises. We also bought 7,000 books which we put into storage while major renovations took place. These have been completed and we are now beginning to do our own decorations over the next few weeks in order to open as soon as possible.

Join us

We have set up a Community Co-operative, Clevedon Community Bookshop. You can become a member by buying a minimum of 10 shares at £1 each. The shares you purchase will make you a member of Clevedon Community Bookshop and provide working capital for the first year of trading and beyond, with an equal vote regardless of the size of your shareholding. Your involvement thereafter, as a customer and/or volunteer in and/or for the Bookshop, and/or by helping to shape the business, is as much or as little as you wish. Our business projects a move into profit by the end of the second year of trading and we will be reporting regularly on progress through a Members Newsletter and through General Meetings of the Co-operative.