Thanks to Richard for this report from Bembridge. Ed
For the first time since opening four years ago, Bembridge Community Library joined forces with the Bembridge Heritage Society, offering visitors free admission and direct access to the adjacent Heritage Centre through the library itself.
The link-up was tested as part of the Library’s Easter Coffee Morning on Easter Saturday. The experiment proved very successful, and consequently cooperation between the two organisations is to continue throughout the summer, providing a new multi-venue attraction for Bembridge.
Successful fundraiser
The Coffee Morning raised more than £200 for Library funds, and featured stalls displaying and selling the craft work of the Bembridge Library Stitchers, an extensive Bring and Buy Stall, a grand Easter Tombola, a stall selling delicious home-made cakes, as well as music provided by the Bembridge Recorder Consort.
Another popular attraction at the event was the library’s own extensive collection of donated books, offering many of the latest hardbacks for just £1 and paperbacks for 50p.
All money raised from the event will be used to support the Community Library, now in its fourth year and which continues to be run entirely by volunteers.
Image: Bembridge residents Ennis Smith (left) and Joan Allsop entered into the spirit of the event proudly sporting their Easter bonnets.
