Scottish Book Trust Author Visits

Calling all schools in East Ayrshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde and East Dunbartonshire - the Scottish Book Trust's Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour is heading your way featuring the excellent author Non Pratt. This event is fully funded by SBT and you can find more details at https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/scottish-friendly-childrens-book-tour/non-pratt

Schools in Dundee can also apply for a visit from the fabulous Chris Judge but applications have to be in by Wednesday, 28th August (https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/scottish-friendly-childrens-book-tour).


The rest of us can apply for Live Literature funding - applications are now open for funding for an author visit from January to March 2020. More information at https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/live-literature

Funding Opportunities

Welcome back to school everyone and we hope you had a good summer. As thoughts turn to library projects for the next academic year, you might want to consider some of the funding opportunities available:

The First Minister's Reading Challenge has opened applications to its Creative Workshop funding. This welcomes bids to invite an author, illustrator, storyteller or poet to work with pupils or other creative projects such as film-making.  Information is available on the website at https://www.readingchallenge.scot/funding. You will need to register/re-register with FMRC before you can proceed. 

You might also be interested in applying to the School Library Information Fund which "supports creative and innovative projects within the school library sector".
Read about past successful bids on the website, and find more information on how to apply for this round of funding: https://scottishlibraries.org/funding/school-library-improvement-fund/. Applications open on 26th August.