Become a corporate partner
A corporate charity partnership with Book Aid International will inspire your colleagues and your customers as we share the power of books together.
Side-by-side, we’ll take books further
We love hearing from organisations about forming corporate charity partnerships, and we see it as our role to make sure every partnership delivers on your specific objectives.
Whatever the size of your organisation, our friendly and experienced team starts by listening to exactly what you want to achieve.
By really getting to know you and your business, we can develop a bespoke partnership that motivates your employees, brings you closer to your customers and helps people across the globe build a more equal future by discovering the power of books.
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Help us reach 10 million young people
By 2030, over a third of the world’s young people will be in Africa, and millions will have no books. Generation Reader is our ambitious new campaign to help 10 million young people unlock their potential through books. Your funding will:
Send 1.5 million books
Create 300 reading spaces
Train 1,500 teachers and librarians
If you prefer to fund something unrelated to young people, we also have a number of other funding options available. Just contact us to discuss your preferences.
Why partner with us?
You can support us your way
Whether you are interested in employee fundraising, cause-related marketing campaigns, making a corporate donation or supporting us in other ways, we are here to offer inspiration and advice. Equally, whether you want to help us send books worldwide or fund a specific programme – such as a new library – our flexible approach means we’ll work with you to make it happen.
We help you achieve your purpose
We understand our corporate partners have a range of objectives and how important these are. Through our partnership we do everything in our power to help you achieve your objectives.
We inspire employee engagement
Sharing the power of books is a cause your colleagues will love to get behind. People instinctively understand why books matter – and being able to provide books where they are needed most is a huge motivator. By fundraising with us, volunteering with us and sponsoring our events with leading authors, your colleagues will feel able to make a tangible, specific impact on people’s lives.
We bring you closer to customers
Throughout our partnership, we keep you fully informed about the difference you’re making – with compelling stories and reports that detail the impact of your support and the lives you’re helping to change. By sharing these examples of the power of books, you can build customer loyalty and drive engagement with your business.
Partner profiles
Partner profile: HP Inc UK Ltd
In 2024, HP Inc UK Ltd approached Book Aid International to donate specially printed bilingual books to Ukraine.
Using HP’s latest digital print innovations, Pineapple Lane, Book Aid International, and PEN Ukraine worked together to respond quickly to deliver reading materials for children in need.
Ashley Gordon, Publishing Segment Manger for HP PageWide
Partner profile: RELX Group
Since 1990, RELX has shared the power of books with thousands of readers globally by donating both books and funds to our work
We have had a strategic partnership for over ten years and counting because of their focus on impact and effectiveness.
Dr Márcia Balisciano MBE, Director of Corporate Responsibility, RELX Group
About our charity
Looking for more information about us? Use the links below to find out more about who we are and what we believe:
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What our corporate partners say
Nigel Newton CBE
“The work that Book Aid International does with the books donated by UK publishers, getting books to the remotest and most marginalised communities around the world, is of the upmost importance.”
Nigel Newton CBE, Bloomsbury Publishing CEO
“RELX are proud to have been partnering with Book Aid International for over 30 years. Through book donations, volunteering and donations we have supported their work in libraries, schools and universities across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. We look forward to continuing and strengthening our partnership into their 70th year.”
Alexis Steadman, Global Community Manager, RELX
“We are proud of our longstanding partnership with Book Aid International. We look forward to strengthening our work with them in the years to come – and hope that other publishers can also donate, so that children around the world, who often have no access to books at all, can grow up to be curious learners and confident readers.”
James Long, COO, Pan Macmillan
Our current partners
We are grateful to all the companies that support our work and help us share the power of books with millions around the world:
- ALCS
- Anglo American Ambassadors for Good Programme
- Blackrock
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Book Harvest
- British Medical Association
- Cambridge University Press
- Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
- Good-Loop Ltd
- Green Bean Books
- How Novel
- HP Inc. UK Ltd.
- Literacy Counts
- National Book Tokens
- Outland AS
- Oxford University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Publishers’ Licensing Society
- The Novelry
- The Reading List
- RELX Group
- Reverie Puzzles
- Scallywag Press
- Taylor & Francis
- The Blair Partnership
- The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd
- UNIFY Network at Intermediate Capital Group
- United Agents
- White & Case
- Wiley Europe Ltd
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Our mission and vision
Our vision is a world where everyone has access to books that will enrich, improve and change their lives.
Read moreOur finances
At Book Aid International all the income we receive is from voluntary donations – we receive no government grants.
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