Gospel Oak Primary School

And James, I want to come to you in a minute specifically about how this whole thing works, but, but Liberty, just, just if you were sort of meeting somebody for the first time, and, you know, "What do you do for a living, Liberty?" "I do this," how do you explain what you're doing and what you're trying to achieve with it?

Our ambition is to, is to give every child the chance to own books so that they can feel part of that community of, of children when they go into school and can talk about the books they love and want to share and pass on.

And Tom mentioned in his introduction about the difference between owning and, and...

I mean, I love libraries, right?

Yeah.

And I'm a great fan of libraries, but what is the difference between owning and borrowing?

So I think the first thing to say is we're working with children in 500 schools this year And the majority of those schools run food banks, and if they don't, then they're signposting their families to a local food bank.

And a lot of them have washing machines running throughout the school day to wash their children's school uniforms.