Voluntary organisation – last updated: 4 January 2009
Primary interest: Government & Politics
Area of activity: Campaigning & Lobbying
Primary beneficiaries: --
Telephone: 0118 9661646
Email: readingbookshop@btconnect.com Web site: www.amnestyshop.org.uk
Amnesty International promotes human rights and campaigns against specific abuses of those rights. It is an international voluntry organisation. Books for Amnesty is part of the fundraising section of Amnesty International UK. It sells good quality, reasonably priced books in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by London lawyerg Peter Beneson who publicised the plight of forgotten 'prisoners of conscience' imprisoned for their beliefs who have neither used or advocated violence. The Reading branch of Books for Amnesty was opened in 2004 and is manned entirely by volunteers.
Telephone: 0118 966 1646
Amnesty International, 71 Wokingham Road, READING, RG6 1LH
Selling donated secondhand books, cds and records. Customer service, pricing and sorting books,display and presentation of shop, till work.
