The Oxfam Charity Shop

There are 750 Oxfam charity shops in Great Britain, 100 of which are bookshops.  In York, we have two bookshops (Micklegate and Low Petergate) and at least one shop specializing in clothing, on Goodramgate.  Joy did her internship in two of these last semester; Adam will be alternating between the two bookshops this semester.  Oxfam shops, depending on donations and volunteers, raised 17 million pounds last year.  Oxfam is the largest retailer of used books in Europe.  I love to stop in at the Micklegate shop on my way to town.  There are three small rooms with floor to ceiling bookcases.  The stock turns over fast; you can visit weekly and expect to see new things every time.

Bookshop on Micklegate

Oxfam was founded in Oxford in 1942 to raise money and awareness for famine relief in Greece, then under blockade by the Axis powers.