Russell Crowe shocks bookshop with £5,000 donation

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@booksaremybag Bookshop day!48Hrs - Target reached - People are incredible pic. twitter. com/5bmL86TGsYMs Fridd, whose husband Dan, 47, works at Edelweiss, a company that provides support to independent bookshops and publishers, added that she has "cried at every single donation from one pound to the £5,000 because we know people are struggling and we're struggling a bit as well".

She said someone else whose house had burnt down six months ago had donated £100. "She was homeless and yet she donated £100.

It's those things that are just mind blowing. "Ms Fridd said that the pandemic led to the shop having to overcome numerous hurdles. "When the pandemic hit, we used all of our reserves to kind of keep going and trying to do what we could to support families, but unfortunately we borrowed a lot of money when we opened so we've had to jump over hurdle after hurdle," she said. "And I've had to cut our staff hours and work more myself - so the reason we launched the crowdfunder is because it will free me up a little bit to start to explore grant funding and everything we can to ensure that as many children as possible have access to books. "Ms Fridd admitted that while the £15,000 will not sort all of the shop's financial woes "it will allow us to pay an extra member of staff, but mostly it will just mean that there is a little bit extra going in each month, so I am not scrabbling around worrying 'am I going to be able to pay this bill?"'.

She said it would also give the shop "time to breathe and explore and do things that we really believe in", including giving books to children who would not otherwise have access through its Dorothy Amery Readers Awards programme and run outreach sessions in rural communities. "It's about.