Bus Stop Book Swap

09/06/2026

📚✨ A New Look for the Orchard Lane Book Swap! ✨📚

Over the last few weeks, our wonderful volunteers have been hard at work reorganising the Bus Stop Book Swap to make it easier to browse, easier to keep tidy, and better protected from the elements.

Huge thank you to the Marketing Practice for the big “new to us” shelving unit.

The new shelving gives us:
📖 More space for books
📖 Better organisation
📖 Improved protection from rain and damp
📖 A more welcoming space for everyone to enjoy

Whether you’re looking for a gripping thriller, a fascinating autobiography, a children’s favourite, a cookbook or your next holiday read, there’s always something new waiting to be discovered.

A huge thank you to everyone who has donated shelving, helped move books, tidied shelves, sorted stock and generally cared for this little community treasure. It only works because of the kindness and effort of so many people.

Why not pop by over, have a browse and find your next great read?

📚 Take a book
📚 Leave a book
📚 Share the joy of reading

Read • Reuse • Share 💚

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07/06/2026

🌿💚 Volunteer Week – Thank You from Hendreds Environment Group 💚🌿

As Volunteer Week comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to say a huge THANK YOU to every single person who gives their time, energy, skills and enthusiasm to Hendreds Environment Group.

Whether you help at the Community Café, support the Community Larder, tend the HEG Grows plot, care for the Bus Stop Book Swap, champion Space for Wildlife, support community events, serve on the committee, or quietly lend a hand behind the scenes – you are what makes HEG possible.

Together, our volunteers contribute thousands of hours every year, helping to reduce waste, support local people, improve biodiversity, create welcoming community spaces and bring people together. Every hour given makes a real difference.

HEG has always been about local people taking positive action for their community and environment, and we are incredibly grateful for everyone who plays a part in that journey.

🌱 Could you be one of our future volunteers?

We’re always looking for new people to get involved. You don’t need any experience, special skills or lots of spare time – just a willingness to help and be part of something positive.

Whether you can spare an hour occasionally or would like to take on a more regular role, we’d love to hear from you.

📧 Get in touch via [email protected]
📱 Or send us a message through our page.

Together, we’re creating a greener, kinder, more connected Hendreds.

🌿💚

Hendreds Environment Group

06/06/2026

Do pop down to the East Hendred Allotments tomorrow and grab a

🌱 THE GREAT BIG PUMPKIN GIVEAWAY 🎃

Part of Big Green Week

Join HEG Grows for our free community pumpkin giveaway!

📍 HEG Grows Plot, East Hendred Allotments
📅 Sunday 7th June
⏰ 11:00am – 3:00pm

Take home a pumpkin plant and grow your own pumpkins for:

🎃 Autumn decorations
🥣 Delicious home-grown food
🌍 Reducing food miles and carbon emissions
♻️ Cutting food waste
🌱 Learning new growing skills

Whether you’re an experienced gardener or have never grown anything before, everyone is welcome.

Grow your own. Eat local. Reduce waste. Support nature.

Supported by Oxfordshire CAG and OCC

24/05/2026

☀️📚 Sunny Bank Holiday plans? 📚☀️

Why not slow down for an hour or two…

Pop by the Orchard Lane Book Swap, pick up a new read, find a shady spot in the garden or park, and enjoy a little escape with something cold to drink 🍹🌿📖

We’ve got:
📚 Children’s books
📚 Fiction series
📚 Autobiographies
📚 Cookbooks & more

No cost.
No sign up.
Just stories waiting for their next reader 💛

Take a book.
Enjoy the sunshine.
Read a while.

📖 Read • Reuse • Share

11/05/2026

Lots of great books available just waiting for you to take them home.

We are hugely grateful to all our helpers - the book swap elves, they are doing an amazing job keeping it neat and tidy and we really appreciate our users keeping it looking loved too!




Bus Stop Book Swap
Hendreds Environment Group

08/04/2026

📚✨ School Half Term = Story Time! ✨📚

Looking for something easy, fun and screen-free this week?

We’ve got some brilliant children’s books at the Bus Stop Book Swap just waiting to be taken home — from picture books to early readers and little adventures 📖

Perfect for:
🌧️ Rainy afternoons
🛋️ Cosy sofa time
🌿 A quiet moment in the garden

Just pop by, pick a book, enjoy it… and return it when you’re ready, or keep for your little library at home!

💛 No cost
💛 No sign up
💛 Just sharing stories

Come on down and find your next favourite read!

📖 Read • Reuse • Share

29/03/2026

📚 Please don’t use the Bus Stop Book Swap as a dumping ground

This is what our volunteers are having to deal with 👇

The Orchard Lane Book Swap is for books only —
📖 Children’s books
📖 Educational
📖 Fiction
📖 Autobiographies

It is not a place for general items, toys, clothes or unwanted household goods.

When things like this are left, it doesn’t just “disappear” — it means our volunteers have to sort it, dispose of it, or take it to recycling or charity shops themselves.

That isn’t fair, and it isn’t what the space is for.

💛 This is a community space run on goodwill
🚫 Please don’t leave your unwanted items here
♻️ Please take responsibility for your own recycling and donations

Let’s keep the book swap what it’s meant to be — a place for sharing stories, not sorting rubbish.

Thank you to those who respect and look after it 📚

Read • Reuse • Share

11/03/2026

📚 A big thank you to our wonderful Bus Stop Librarians!

Look how beautifully tidy the Orchard Lane Book Swap is looking. It takes a small team of kind volunteers to keep the shelves organised, books stacked neatly, and the space welcoming for everyone who stops by.

Your quiet acts of community care really do make a difference — and the swap only works because people look after it so thoughtfully.

So if you’ve borrowed a book recently, do pop it back when you’re done… and maybe take a moment to admire the handiwork of our brilliant Book Swap Guardians.

Thank you all 💛📖

Read • Reuse • Share

18/02/2026

👍Help needed…

📓Get in touch if you can help he a Book Swap Librarian - just one hour a month maximum

dM or email ….

15/02/2026

📚✨ Half Term = Story Time ✨📚

If you’re looking for something simple (and screen-free!) this half term, why not pop down to the Orchard Lane Book Swap and let the kids choose a new adventure?

Dragons or detectives.
Robots or rainforests.
Funny stories or faraway lands.

There are brilliant children’s books waiting to be taken home, plus plenty for grown-ups too if you fancy your own quiet chapter with a cuppa ☕📖

No cost.
No sign-up.
Just take a book, enjoy it, and return it when you’re ready.

Let’s keep stories moving this half term 💛

📖 Read • Reuse • Share