#BLA24 supporting education all over the world - 2024 focus on 0-5 but have supported women's education and other topics in past. Eg. In 2023 grant to Brent Libraries for Dress to Remember for dementia patients in Afro-Carribean communities. Makaton training in Dudley. Focus was local area in 2023.

#BLA24 children's books are often rejected for sale but as part of their literacy promotion work, they are frequently donated when still in great condition. Literacy grants made from other proceeds to countries from all around the world, Inc Madagascar, Eastern Europe, America, South Africa.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...#BLA24

WHICH REMINDS ME.... did you all know that the M6 toll is built on zillions of pulped Mills & Boon??? #BLA24

... And working with the Open Library, or recycles them into animal bedding or loo roll. #BLA24

#BLA24 I completely forgot to start live posting because we were having the BLA AGM, but we're hearing from Better World Books, which is a for profit socially conscious business that takes old books from libraries and either gives them new life through donations, sales....

#bla24 Vanessa Jones from betterworld books covering sustainability and discards

#bla24 next years conference is in Stirling. Tentative dates are 25-27 June 2025

#bla24 Committee is currently without a chair. Any volunteers?

#bla24 proposal passed to investigate widening membership from institutions to individuals. This has been passed.