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'Biggest' Book Sale for Guide Dogs underway in Trinity

Trainee Guide Dog Chrissie enjoying one the books on sale

More than 20,000 books are on sale in Trinity this weekend for Jersey's Biggest Book Sale.

Peacock Farm on La Route de Maufant has been with filled fact and fiction by authors for all ages.

The money raised goes to the Guide Dogs team, to help with the cost of training puppies to provide vital assistance to people who are blind and visually impaired.

The annual event is the charity's main fundraiser of the year.

750 boxes of books have been priced up, with children's books just 25p each to encourage young readers.

There are paperbacks and hardbacks, and reference books arranged in an A to Z so people can browse by subject.

There will also be some rare and collectable editions.

Doors open at 9am each day, and close at 4pm.

The longstanding Chairman of the Guide Dogs Jersey Branch is Ken Syvret says it is a truly enjoyable community event:

"Each year over 50 volunteers lend a hand during the busy weekend, helping with the loading and delivery of books to the sale venue, taking payments at the four pay desks, keeping the boxes tidy (books have a habit of moving, turning upside down and generally misbehaving,) and at the end of it all returning unsold books to the book store in St Ouen.

"Such a successful enterprise does not happen without the generosity of donors of books and the many who regularly support the sales finding bargains on every occasion."

Jersey’s working Guide Dogs and puppies in training attend the Biggest Book Sale and help explain the work of the charity and the difference it makes to the lives of guide dog owners.

In the past 32 years, the book sales have raised £615,402.00.

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