Waterstones Children’s Laureate Visits Bridgend

September 11, 2023

It was great to welcome Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho to Bridgend Library last week. The award-winning performance poet, playwright and children’s author is on an epic cross-country journey to join a library in every local authority in the UK – more than 200 libraries in total. Pob lwc Joseph!

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Almost 600 adults take up the 21 Book Challenge

11 December 2024

Almost 600 adults have so far signed up for Awen Cultural Trust’s first-ever 21 Book Challenge since its launch in July; more than double the numbers anticipated. The initiative was

Aberkenfig Library members show they are sew nifty with a needle

10 December 2024

Thanks to support from two local businesses – world-leading parachute manufacturer IvinGQ and Stitch Bridgend Sewing School – Aberkenfig Library’s adult crafting workshops are ‘thready’ for a new term of

Download PressReader to access over 7,000 digital newspapers and magazines

9 December 2024

PressReader, Overdrive’s eMagazine and eNewspaper service, is now available to all Awen Library users. Download the PressReader app from www.about.pressreader.com/download-the-latest-app to access more than 7,000 of the world’s top publications

Awen Libraries’ performance assessed by Welsh Government

26 November 2024

Welsh Government’s annual assessment (2023-24) of the library service in Bridgend County Borough has recognised its “impressive range of activities”, “support for people with a wide range of needs and