Craigmillar Literacy Trust

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Our Craigmillar Christmas 2025 appeal is now LIVE! 🎄☃️🔔🎁❄️ Please help us to support literacy in our community by donating, sharing the appeal or telling people about our work. tinyurl.com/4hk7zzkz #BabiesLoveBooks #StoriesForSharing #CraigmillarChristmas #BookGifting

Our Craigmillar Christmas 2025 appeal is now LIVE! 🎄☃️🔔🎁❄️ Please help us to support literacy in our community by donating, sharing the appeal or telling people about our work. tinyurl.com/4hk7zzkz #BabiesLoveBooks #StoriesForSharing #CraigmillarChristmas #BookGifting

We're really excited about running the last 3 CWNN sessions of the year in @CastlebraeCCC with our new facilitator Lou. All young people aged 12-16 who live or go to school in the Craigmillar area are welcome! #ExpressYourself #YoungPeople #Confidence

Delighted and thankful that we will be the beneficiary of a @scotgardens garden opening on Saturday August 30th 2pm-5pm. Entry fee £5 for adults, children free. 60% of proceeds will support our work @CraigmillarBFB @CraigmillarSFS scotlandsgardens.org/quinn-garden/

Thank you to everyone who has supported this wonderful fundraising appeal in memory of Val Walker. The appeal will close on Friday. #Grateful #Community

Honoured to be the beneficiary of a fundraiser in memory of the late Councillor Val Walker, long-time supporter & advocate of our work. Funds raised will continue our literacy programmes in her memory. Any would be much appreciated. Thank you. justgiving.com/crowdfunding/v…

SUMMER OF STORIES: WEEK TWO 📚Manjeet Mann - Big Dreams, Big Feelings 🕚Thursday 24 July 11am-12pm 📍Craigmillar Library 🎟️No need to book, just come along! Perfect for ages 4-7 but all ages are welcome. #Craigmillar #SummerOfStories #Free #StoriesForSharing #Literacy

🌟Tawona Sithole - A Place of Gathering ⏰Saturday 19 Jul 11am-12pm 📌Craigmillar Library Free, just come along Tawona is a playwright, poet, storyteller & musician. He'll be sharing folklore from his Zimbabwean heritage. All ages are welcome to join us for this joyful event! 🤩

It's almost time for🎉☀️Summer of Stories☀️🎉! We're delighted to invite families with children aged 0-12 in the Greater Craigmillar area to join us for fun, free activities in the summer holidays! Check out our programmes below, or pick up your paper copy in the library 😍

Best of luck to Dom & Neil in final week of training for #EdinburghMarathon!! Every donation, like or share on our @Localgiving appeal is greatly appreciated - THANK YOU! localgiving.org/fundraising/EM… Supporting our projects @CraigmillarBFB & @CraigmillarSFS

Thank you so much @BrownsBFS for your generous donation of all these fabulous books! We are very grateful and our projects @CraigmillarSFS and @CraigmillarBFB will ensure they are gifted to babies and children living in our community. #BabiesLoveBools #Craigmillar

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Today we have an exciting chance to win a copy of 'Planet Earth: My Life So Far' by @TheMikeBarfield, illustrated by Jess Bradley and published by @OMaraBooks to celebrate Earth Day! To enter drop a 🌎 below. Good luck! T&C's on our website.

Thank you everyone who has supported our Trustee Dom & running partner Neil, training for Edinburgh Marathon Festival! Every donation, like or share is so appreciated & helps support our work @CraigmillarBFB, @CraigmillarSFS & Express Yourself! localgiving.org/fundraising/EM…

Our trustee Dom is running the Edinburgh Marathon later this month and is fundraising for us! Look at that smile - he must be enjoying those training runs, what a star!🤩 #CraigmillarCastle #LochTay #Fundraising #EdinburghMarathon tinyurl.com/nhbay287

We're so excited to share the winners of the Johnni Stanton Creative Writing Awards 2025. A massive well done to everyone that took part, the judges loved reading your stories. Find out more on our FB page! #StoriesForSharing #ExpressYourself #JohnniStantonCWA #YoungWriters

We are very pleased to share that Together- Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights have launched #TinyRightsDetectives "Exploring Pathways to Justice for Babies" #BabyUNCRC Read more here: ➡️ togetherscotland.org.uk/news-and-event…

It's World Book Day tomorrow & we're so excited! Katie will be in #CraigmillarLibrary on Thursday afternoon from 3pm - 4pm ready with some lovely WBD books to gift to children aged 0-12. Pop in & choose your favourite! Everyone welcome, see you there! #WorldBookDay2025

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📢 WIN the fantastic picture book collection FOOD WITH FEELINGS 📢 To enter: - Follow @scholasticuk - Like this tweet - Reply to this tweet with your favourite food emoji! 🍔🥦🍎 Entries close 28th February. T&Cs apply.

📢Just over 24 hours to go! ✍️ We're so excited to see the entries rolling in for the Johnni Stanton Creative Writing Awards. Please drop stories in to the library or email to us by the end of tomorrow, Wed 26 Feb! #JohnniStantonCWA #Competition #YoungWriters #Storytellers