Horsham College’s bi-annual book fair brought huge crowds to the two-day fundraising event, its ‘variety of books bringing a variety of customers’. 

College chaplain and organiser Yolande Grosser estimated 100 people walking in when the fair opened.

“It’s just been terrific. It’s such a lovely community event to see small children, people on their walkers, it’s such a range of people and of course it is because we have every book from a toddler’s touch-and-feel book right through to fantastic histories, biographies and cooking, and people have come in looking for everything,” she said.

“There’s a lovely vibe. People come in and they can take their time and stroll around and travel the world by opening a few pages of books, learn a few things. 

“I saw books that when we were setting up, I thought, ‘gosh who’s going to buy a book about a bug?’ but people bought them, people are interested in all kinds of things, so it’s really a lovely group of interesting people buying interesting books.”

The fair raises money to enable the delivery of a chaplaincy program at the college, which provides day-to-day support as well as special events. 

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