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This project successfully funded on 28th February 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
Lavender Pages Project
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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Aim
Fundraiser for a zine of writings by LGBTQIA+ prisoners, and for our regular book-sending activities.
Lavender Pages is a solidarity project for LGBTQIA+ people in prisons. We send books, magazines, and other reading material for free into UK prisons. Since we were founded in 2024, we sent over 250 books to people in prison signed up to the project.
People inside have been sending us their writings, poems, and drawings – which we are planning to turn into a zine. This will include poems about queerness, short texts about being trans in prison, various drawings, as well as writing by current political prisoners. This zine will be sent to our members in prison, and available in some London bookshops to help cover our regular costs (we are a fully volunteer, donation-based project).
This fundraiser is to cover the costs of printing the zine. Any extra fund will be used for our regular send-out of books to detained LGBTQIA+ people.
If you donate over £15, you will receive a free copy of the zine. You can arrange to pick up a copy from The People’s Letters (Bethnal Green), or if you are not able to get there, we can mail it to you free of charge within the UK. We are also happy to share a pdf copy for donors living abroad. Send us an email ([email protected]) with proof of donation (screenshot is fine) and we will arrange for it.
You can read more about us on our Substack: https://lavenderpages.substack.com/
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Below is what some of our members in prison say about us:
“I just wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you for the work you do with this project. I think it is an ingenious and hugely valuable act of solidarity with prisoners. Reading is one of the things that is bringing me great joy in prison, so just knowing that people like you are working to bring that joy to myself and others has brightened my day.”
“Thank you for the book that you sent out I received it just in time for my birthday. Books are a much needed escapism for me, so a big thank you.”
“I finally got the book. I feel it’s important that LGBTQ+ prisoners have access to books, so thank you again. The work you do is very important & greatly appreciated.”
“Again thank you for your gifts it’s hard to believe how much joy books can cause.”
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made