A large team of volunteers from Winchelsea have organised a completely new and exciting event - The Winchelsea Book Fair - all sums raised will be in aid of the League of Friends of Rye Memorial Care Centre (Rye Hospital), with smaller donations to two Winchelsea charities, the Friends of the Ancient Monuments & Museum (FOAM) and St Thomas' Church. Our Book Fair is based on the hugely successful Christian Aid Book Sale in Edinburgh organised by St Andrew's & St George's Church. Their Book Fair has been running for over 30 years, is almost wholly devoted to the sale of second hand books, and raised over £ 100,000 for Christian Aid in 2010 alone! If we can achieve up to 10% of this amount it would be fantastic.

What we need from you is your support - come to the event, bring your family and friends, and tell everyone you know!

How many books? We have around 8000 books for sale, which have been carefully sorted and categorised by subject and type

What type of books etc do we have? Very good condition second-hand books, both soft back and hard back. The major categories include: Art, Children's, Cookery, Crafts, Fiction, Gardening, History, Languages & Reference, Law, Literature/classics, Music, Non-fiction (including Science and Social science), Local history and Geography, Sports & pastimes. In addition we have sections covering: music, CDs; prints and posters. We do not take magazines, periodicals, Mills & Boon-type books, Readers Digest books, videos, tapes etc

Special and antiquarian books: we have a good selection of more special books: click here (A4 PDF) for a catalogue of a selection of those available

email: info@winchelsea.com