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North Cornwall Book Festival 2022
The dust is beginning to settle
on the 2022 Book Festival. Our
amazing team of volunteers
managed to create another
hugely successful event.
This year our two schools days
were sponsored by Seasalt,
who, as well as funding much
of the costs of the school days,
provided each child with a
special Seasalt book bag and
book voucher that could be
exchanged for a book on the
day. This meant every child
not only had a great day,
with varied and inspirational
workshops, but were able to
take home a book without the
schools having to ask parents
to send in cash. The word used
repeatedly to describe the
schools’ days with the voucher
scheme was ‘transformative’
Over the weekend, we had
a series of author talks,
workshops, evening concerts,
our pop-up café, an amazing
exhibition from Sara Bevan,
Amanda Richardson and Aiden
Hicks, as well as our popular
festival market, showcasing
local produce and makers. We
were extremely grateful to our
sponsors; Seasalt, GWR, Savills,
Cornish Horizons, Eden Project
and Sharps, not to mention
numerous generous individual
patrons.
As you can imagine the costs
of running the festival have
gone up considerably, but
we are determined to keep
our ticket prices low. We
were fortunate to secure
over £10,000 in sponsorship
and support from individual
patrons in 2022, a figure we
will have to achieve in 2023
(our 10 th festival) as well.
People wishing to become
Patrons can do so by going to
the www.ncornbookfest.org
or by contacting
Plum@endelienta.org.uk
To ensure you hear about
what’s on at the book festival
and our bookish events
through the year join our
mailing list
www.ncornbookfest.org
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