A Charity Prize Draw for BookTrust | 12 July - 16 Sept 2024

Prize 12 of 20: Gladstone’s Library | Two-night Winter Writing Retreat | RRP £300

This prize for our 20th birthday charity Prize Draw in aid of BookTrust is a two-night Winter Retreat at Gladstone’s Library – the UK’s only residential library with a collection of over 150,000 items to explore – between 1–19 December 2024.

We are most grateful to Gladstone’s Library for offering this generous prize, which includes:

  • Two-night Winter Writing Retreat at Gladstone’s Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire CH5 3DF
  • The raffle winner would be eligible to stay two nights at Gladstone’s Library in December 2024
  • B&B basis. Dinner is available to purchase on site but is not included in the Prize
  • The winner can make use of the Reading Rooms on the day of arrival up to their departure
  • Available dates are from December 1st with the latest departure on December 19th when the Library closes for Christmas
  • The Library is open seven days a week
  • The Reading Rooms are accessible to readers and residents from 9am to 5pm, and the Theology Room is accessible until 10pm
  • Please see the Library’s Food for Thought page for restaurant opening times. Breakfast and dinner is available to residential guests only

From Gladstone’s Library

Gladstone’s Library is the UK’s only residential library with a collection of over 150,000 items to explore. A place for serious study or a relaxing retreat for booklovers, the longer you stay, the more you will enjoy Gladstone’s Library. Our Reading Rooms are a rare commodity: a silent library. Whatever you’re working on and however you like to work, you will find a space to suit you here. Not working? You can read, ponder, dream, sketch, revise, draft, think . . . We’re very proud to say that our users include school, college and university students, researchers, theologians and clergy, local historians, academics, and award-winning novelists, scriptwriters, poets, and playwrights. In the last decade we’ve been made aware of over 300 books that have been inspired, started, revised, finished or otherwise worked on while the writer was at Gladstone’s Library. Not bad for a lovely little library in North Wales. Gladstone’s Library has 26 quirky comfortable bedrooms that are a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of daily life and routine.

To find out more about Gladstone’s Library, please visit: www.gladstoneslibrary.org

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About the Prize Draw

This year (2024) the well-loved literary magazine Slightly Foxed is celebrating twenty years in print. When the magazine turned ten in 2014, we celebrated by raising over £5,500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital School with the proceeds from the sales of a little book of famous people’s drawings of foxes. And now, here we are, hoping to mark our twentieth birthday year by raising £20,000 for another good bookish cause: the brilliant BookTrust – the national charity dedicated to getting children reading.

With twenty covetable prizes from our friends and sponsors worth from £100-£1500 on offer. From a four-night luxury reading retreat in Cornwall, a full set of Slightly Foxed issues 1-80, boxed sets of books, a one-off original ‘fox’ by artist Jackie Morris, a two-night stay in a converted railway carriage so beautiful that it’s been featured by World of Interiors, a gardening masterclass in Wales, and many others besides, there’s sure to be something to tempt booklovers all around the world to enter.

Please click here to view all 20 prizes.

• Tickets are available from 1 July to 16 September 2024 • The Prize Draw will be held on 17 September 2024 • Tickets £5 online. Please see tickets page for full T&Cs

From BookTrust

We’re incredibly grateful to Slightly Foxed and their readership for supporting our cause and helping us change lives through reading. We know that reading for pleasure can be both magical and transformative for the lives of children and is something that every child in the UK should experience, no matter their background. Thank you Slightly Foxed!
Diana Gerald MBE, CEO of BookTrust
BookTrust | Getting Children Reading

About BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK’s largest reading charity and they reach millions of children every year with books, resources and support to get every child reading, regularly and by choice.

They are national in scale and operate in every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. They work through every local authority, via children’s centres, schools, libraries and health professionals, to reach the families who need them most.

From running the Children’s Laureate to giving out books to families and schools, running exciting reading campaigns or celebrating the very best children’s books with their prizes, everything they do at BookTrust aims to inspire children – from babies to teenagers – to get started on their reading journeys.

From the Slightly Foxed Editors

As anyone for whom reading is not just a pleasure but an essential part of life will know, learning to decode words on a page is very different from becoming a reader. Statistics may show that increasing numbers of our children have learned to read but they do not tell us how many of them will find pleasure in reading for the rest of their lives. This is where the wonderful charity BookTrust comes in and why we, as a magazine dedicated to the joys of reading, are delighted to be linking up with them in our 20th anniversary year.
Gail Pirkis MBE & Hazel Wood MBE

A 20th Birthday Prize Draw in aid of BookTrust

  • Tickets are available from 12 July to 16 September 2024
  • The Prize Draw will be held on 17 September 2024
  • Tickets £5*
  • No limit on number of tickets an individual may purchase
  • Worldwide entry but overseas friends should note that a number of the Prizes are UK-based trips, stays or tours
  • Entry is limited to 4,500 tickets in total
  • All profits to BookTrust
*Tickets available online via the Slightly Foxed website or by writing to: 20th Birthday Prize Draw, Slightly Foxed Ltd., 53 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB

Gladstone’s Library | Two-night Winter Writing Retreat ● RRP £300


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