Our awards

Over the last few years Beanstalk has received a number of awards and commendations for our work.

Winner of the US Library of Congress Literacy Awards International Prize 2015

Photo courtesy of Shawn Miller, Library of Congress

Shortlisted for the US Library of Congress Literacy Awards International Prize 2014
Winner of the Best Business-Charity Partnership (Large Charities with over £1 Million Income) Award at the Institute of Fundraising Awards 2013 for the ‘Get London Reading’ Partnership with the London Evening Standard
Shortlisted for Best Challenge Event at the Third Sector Business Charity Awards 2013
Founder Susan Belgrave MBE nominated for Daily Mail Inspirational Women of the Year 2013

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• The Website is operated and owned by Beanstalk (“Beanstalk”). Beanstalk is a Registered Charity (No. 296454). We are registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales under company number 2101719 and have our registered office at Third Floor, 6 Middle Street, London EC1A 7JA .

• Beanstalk reserves the right to modify or revise these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes on this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any updates we make, as they are legally binding on you.

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• We aim to update the Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. Beanstalk reserves the right to withdraw or amend any aspect, service or feature of the Website without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. Beanstalk may also restrict access to parts of or the entire Website to users who have registered with us.

• If you post or submit any user-generated content on the Website such as videos, photos, text, images, messages or other materials or participate in Beanstalk or associated discussion forums, e-bulletin boards, or other activities, events or interactive features on or in connection with the Website, you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:

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(h) You must not post or transmit to the Website any other material that is or may be in breach of Beanstalk policies.

• Any messages or materials posted, submitted or otherwise made available to users of the Website or other content which does not originate from Beanstalk is the sole responsibility of the person who makes such content available on the Website. Beanstalk is not liable or responsible in any way for commentary or content generated by you or a third party using the Website.

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• If you do upload post or transmit any user-generated content in breach of the above rules of conduct Beanstalk reserves the right, in its sole discretion to remove or edit messages or any content submitted by you and, if you are a registered user, to disable or terminate your account for any reason.

• You agree to indemnify and hold Beanstalk, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any claims, costs, expenses, liability or losses incurred by Beanstalk as a result of your use of the Website or, for registered users, the use of your Website account and any content that you upload or that is uploaded using your Website account.

• Beanstalk will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any objectionable material posted on the Website, or on any third party website linked to it.

• If you have a complaint about any content on the Website, please notify us immediately by sending an email to the following address: info@beanstalkcharity.org.uk, providing us with details of the exact content complained of.

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• All material on the Website is owned or licensed by Beanstalk or third party content suppliers. You acknowledge that Beanstalk is the owner or the licensee of all copyright, design rights, trade marks and other intellectual property rights in the Website, and all images, text, photographs, designs, software, data and other material published on it. All such rights are reserved.

• You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, download or otherwise use any Website content protected by copyright, design rights, trade marks, trade secrets, rights of publicity or other proprietary rights without the express permission of Beanstalk or the relevant third party content supplier which owns such copyright, design rights, trade marks, trade secrets, rights of publicity or other proprietary rights. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of these intellectual property rights or any other harm resulting from this. Any person determined by Beanstalk, in its sole discretion, to have violated the intellectual property or other rights of others shall be prevented from submitting any further material on the Website.

• You may print off and/or download extracts of any web page from the Website for your personal reference only and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on the Website provided that:

(a) You acknowledge that any printed or downloaded extract, or work derived from content on the Website is for your non-commercial personal use only. The commercial use or publication of all or any item displayed on the Website is strictly prohibited unless expressly authorised by Beanstalk. Contact info@beanstalkcharity.org.uk for authorisation.

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• If you wish to make any use of material on our Website, other than as set out above, please address your request to info@beanstalkcharity.org.uk. No other use of material from the Website may be made without obtaining our written permission.

• If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these terms and conditions, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and it is within our discretion to ask that you return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

• Beanstalk reserves any rights not expressly granted in these terms and conditions.

Our liability

• Any material displayed on the Website is intended for general information only. It is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy, veracity or completeness. Beanstalk and its third party contributors do not accept any liability for a Website user’s use or reliance on such material.

• You expressly agree that your use of the Website is at your own risk. Neither Beanstalk, its subsidiary Beanstalk Trading Limited or any other of its affiliates, their respective employees, agents, third party providers or licensors warrant that the functions contained in the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that the Website or the server enabling the Website is free of viruses or represents the full functionality, accuracy, reliability or content of any materials, service or products provided through the Website. We will not be liable for any loss, disruption or damage to your data, you computer system or any other damages arising out of your use of the Website.

• Beanstalk will not be liable for any loss or damage which was not caused by or attributable to Beanstalk, its employees or its agents. For clarity, under no circumstances will Beanstalk be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages, including without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits arising out of your use or performance of the Website, the provision or failure to provide certain Website services, information, material, goods or services through the Website or otherwise arising out of your use of the Website.

• This does not affect Beanstalk’s liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or other such liability for breach of a statutory duty under applicable law.

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• Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to the Website or to make contact with other users of the Website, you warrant that any such contribution complies with the standards required by the feature, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

• Any material you upload to the Website will be considered non-confidential and Beanstalk is under no obligation to treat the content as proprietary information except as stated in the Privacy Policy. Beanstalk reserves the right to use, copy, edit, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. Beanstalk also has the right to disclose your identity to any third party claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to the Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.

• Beanstalk will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the Website.

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• If you wish to create a link to the Website home page, you may do so only on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate the Website home page, that it is done in a fair and legal way which is not damaging to or takes advantage of our reputation, and that you do not establish a link that in any way implies any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. Beanstalk reserves the right, in its complete discretion, to refuse or withdraw permission to use website links to the Website without notice.

• If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

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• A person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions shall have no right under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these Terms and Conditions but this shall not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.Jurisdiction and applicable law

• The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Website.

• These terms and conditions and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

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