Christian bookshop receives national award 

Green Pastures Christian Bookshop in Dereham has won a national award for providing boxes of books to 21 local schools.

Managers Irene Humphrey and Helen Cockburn with three trustees were delighted to receive the national Community Impact Award at the Christian Resources Together event.

Mrs Humphrey said: “The award was the result of being able to provide boxes of selected Christian books for 21 local schools’ libraries through grants from the Speaking Volumes charity. 

"Green Pastures processed the highest number of these grants in the UK in 2022. Speaking Volumes is an incredible scheme which means children of all ages have access to Christian literature - books full of love and hope.”

Mrs Cockburn added: “As another important part of our ministry we provide bookstalls for coffee mornings, churches, and other events so that those who cannot come to the shop have the opportunity to buy Christian books, Bibles, cards and gifts."

In the community space opening from the rear of the shop, Dereham Baptist Church and Love Dereham host a weekday morning Let’s Chat coffee time where anyone can enjoy a free cup of tea or coffee and find someone to talk to. 

Mrs Humphrey said: “Green Pastures has been in Dereham for many years and has never previously won an award, so this was a very special recognition of the team’s dedication and hard work, for which we are immensely grateful.”

The shop is open from 9.30am-4pm Monday to Friday and from 10am-4pm on Saturday.
 
You can contact the shop on 01362 697953 or through their website www.greenpasturesdereham.org.uk.

Pictured above are Green Pastures shop managers Irene Humphrey (second left) and Helen Cockburn (third left) with shop trustees Sheila Knowles (third right), Christine Dove (second right) and chairman of trustees Lance Birks (right). Image: Green Pastures.
 
Article quotations from Dereham Times.