The Melbourne Branch of The Footpath Library is currently seeking volunteers to help pack and unpack boxes of books at our Flemington warehouse on Sunday mornings. This work involves some heavy lifting. For more information please email lucy@footpathlibrary.org
Melbourne-based independent company Text Publishing are one of the many great publishers who regularly donate brand new books to The Footpath Library. Text represent a great range of authors including Helen Garner, Tim Flannery, Peter Temple, Kate Holden, John Marsden, Jessica Rudd, Garry Disher, Toni Jordan, Shane Maloney, Yann Martel, Kate Grenville and even Barack [...]
If you are responding to the story on 7 News tonight and would like to know how to help, please contact the relevant Sydney Manager through the links above. If you missed it, you can check it out here.
Some fantastic and humbling news: We’ve been named finalists in the National Homelessness Services Achievement Awards for ‘Excellence or Innovation in partnerships in delivery services’ in awards category 4. We’re thrilled that our relationships with our wonderful sponsors has been recognised. Update: We made it to the final three of 130, but didn’t win. We [...]
Our founder, Sarah Garnett, and our chairperson, Jaqui Lane, headed down to Canberra today to help launch the National Year of Reading, an initiative that’s designed to help people discover (and rediscover) the magic of books and reading. We’re participating in the initiative and will have updates here throughout the year.