Each year The Footpath Library’s Sydney and Brisbane branches take part in Homeless Connect, a one day event bringing together people who are homeless and at risk of homelessness with free support services from business and community groups. A day at Homeless Connect offers a hearty lunch; housing and employment assistance; health checks, doctor, dentist,…
The Wentworth Courier captures a great pic of Hank and Sarah and gives a great overview of our work, in particular our Sydney based mobile library service. Click here to view PDF
Carol Duncan interviews our Founder Sarah Garnett. Click here to Listen
The Footpath Library is thrilled to be the first beneficiary of Mailbooks for Good, a creative collaboration between bmf Advertising and Random House. With your support this initiative will enable us to supply new books to our literature-hungry clients. Already there has been international press like this: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/march/introducing-the-useful-dust-jacket In Sydney a small selection of books…
The Footpath Library would like to say a big thank you to our friends at Kennards Self Storage for our new unit in South Sydney! Phil and the team at Kennards have kindly donated a second warehouse to The Footpath Library to use as our newest book distribution centre. Serving some of our south side…
A big thanks to the folks at Berkelouw Books Paddington for supporting The Footpath Library through the sale of our library bags with proceeds coming back to us. Check out some pics on our Facebook page.
We are very excited to announce the launch of our new logo which also reflects a change in our name to The Footpath Library. ‘Since we started out in 2003 we’ve seen a natural progression and shortening of our name to The Footpath Library so we decided to officially reflect this in our branding’, said…
Courage to Care aims to inform and educate Australians of the dangers of prejudice and discrimination. It is an exhibition that educates visitors towards an understanding of the roles of victims, perpetrators and bystanders by exposing them to survivors of the Holocaust and their rescuers. Visitors have the extraordinary opportunity to meet and tour the…
The Footpath Library and Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group have joined forces to launch an exciting new short story competition which opens on 5 March and closes 5pm Sydney time on 3 May 2013. The Footpath Library aims to make books more accessible to the homeless and disadvantaged members of our society, change our…
Since 2007 The Footpath Library has operated solely on the energy and kindness of volunteers. This week we enter a new and exciting era with the employment of our first staff member – General Manager Margaret Price. Margaret has a wealth of management experience, most recently as General Manager for another charity. Based in Sydney,…
Once again Sarah was invited to be a 2013 Australia Day Ambassador and this year addressed citizenship awards ceremonies in Captain’s Flat and Braidwood, as well as attending as a guest in Bungendore, all towns in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. Sarah’s address focused on the importance of family and how vital it is for…
On Friday 7th December Sarah spoke to Richard Glover in front of a live audience for ABC 702’s Celebrate special. Author Kate Forsyth talked about her new novel Bitter Greens and stayed on for the chat. Kate has since offered to donate books she reviews as well as her own titles of course! If you’d…
Last week Sarah received a Finalist Award in the 2013 NSW Australian of the Year Awards, Local Hero Category. Held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Sarah received her award from Premier Barry O’Farrell and was thrilled to meet fellow finalists Dr. Anita Heiss, Dr. Steve Flecknoe-Brown and winner Shane Phillips. The Footpath…
At 6am on Sunday 16th September, The Footpath Library team of 15 very fit and very experienced cyclists set off on a 150km fundraising ride, as part of the 2012 Paradice Investment Goulburn to Sydney Cycle Classic. Our team consisted of Footpath Library Board member and organiser Bruce Murphy (Bank NY Mellon), Footpath Library volunteer…
Thank you all for the overwhelming quantity of knitted goods received in Sydney for this winter—we have more than enough to see out the chilly weeks ahead and into next year in fact. On the book front, we do need non-fiction titles in Sydney—excellent quality only please in history, biographies, self help, simple cookbooks, parenting,…