Grow a Row Workshop at Drumbrae Library Hub

MONDAY 1st JUNE from 6 – 7pm

We are delighted to share that Drumbrae Hub now has its very own Seed Library, in collaboration with Lauriston Farm. As part of this new project, we are offering free workshops for people to learn more about food growing and seed saving.

Our first workshop, Grow a Row, encourages the local community to dedicate a row, a pot, or a garden bed to growing seeds for our Seed Library. Hannah from Lauriston Farm will be visiting us to talk about the importance of seed saving and how to grow specifically for seed saving. The main focus of this workshop will be on pea and bean seeds, alongside a selection of flowers and herbs.

There will be seeds available to take home so you can get growing yourself. We will then meet again in late summer to learn how to gather and prepare these plants for seed saving, and hopefully restock the Seed Library with what the community has grown.

This session is suitable for adults, and you do not need a large garden to take part. Whether you have a small garden bed, a few pots, or even a balcony, there are plenty of ways to grow for seed saving in small spaces

Monday 1st June at 6pm

Free

Adult event, age 16+

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Drumbrae Library celebrates Bookbug Week

We’re so excited for Bookbug Week 2026 which starts on Monday!

Celebrate Bookbug’s Big Quest at Drumbrae Library all next week and have an adventure with your little one.

We have our usual 3 Bookbug sessions to enjoy, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10.30am.

Whilst you’re in the library why not take part in Bookbug’s scavenger hunt, colour in a mini Bookbug and look at Bookbug’s Big Quest wall to see what adventures Bookbug has been on during the week!

We also have a fun, interactive Story Walk around Clermiston Park! Collect your map at the front desk, enjoy the walk, find the pages of the story, then return to the library to collect your certificate!

Tonight: Celebrate World Book Night with Drumbrae Library Hub

THURSDAY 23 APRIL at 7pm

Tune in to Facebook tomorrow night at 7pm for a Bedtime Story read by one of our librarians Faye.

She will be reading the beautiful, sensitive story of ‘Astrid and the Sky Calf’ written by Rosie Faragher.

If you miss it, don’t worry it will be staying up on Facebook for some time.

#WorldBookNight

#ReadingHour

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Junior Creative Writing Group at Drumbrae Library Hub

TUESDAY 10th MARCH at 6pm

A reminder that our next Junior Creative Writing session will be on Tuesday 10th March at 6pm.

We’re having some special guests from Edinburgh Playhouse along to host a Matilda themed workshops.

Come and join us!

Ages 8+

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#NationalYearOfReading2026

Soundtrack your Story theme at Drumbrae Library’s Chatterbooks

TUESDAY 3rd FEBRUARY from 6 – 7pm

🎵Chatterbooks, our P4-7 book group, is on this Tuesday from 6 – 7pm.

As it’s National Storytelling Week we will be looking at the theme of ‘Soundtrack your story‘.

We will be looking at books themed around music, read, chat, play games, craft and have fun! 👩‍🎤👨‍🎤

(We will keep our animal themed session for the following meet up)

Happy 15th Anniversary, NEN blog!

NEN PUBLISHED OUR FIRST BLOG POST ON THIS DAY IN 2011

The very first NEN blog post was published on this day in 2011. The post read:

Hello, and welcome to the brand new NEN blog.

For those of you not already familiar with the newspaper, we are a local community paper serving the North Edinburgh community. We’ve been here for over thirty years.

This blog, along with our new Facebook page and Twitter stream, represents our first foray into the world of social media.  We really want to encourage more participation, more questions and ideas from the North Edinburgh community – both online and offline – and hope that these new tools will help us to do that.

We already have a good website, where you can always find the latest edition of the printed newspaper. The blog won’t be replacing that, but will instead be there to show people the latest news about the area, and also to help us cover the current funding crisis we are facing as an organisation.

Above all, we want to include your input on the blog – be it ideas for stories, comments, pictures and events. So get in touch!

The NEN’s website was sadly deleted when funding ceased but our social media presence continues on both Twitter and Facebook and the blog is still going strong with 10 – 12 posts daily.

2025 was the NEN blog’s busiest ever year with 36,000 visitors. As I write this we’ve published more than 38,000 posts – all of these remain accessible online – and we’re currently on a run of publishing on 2749 consecutive days.

When the NEN office in Crewe Road North closed much of the NEN archive material was lost, but thankfully some of our picture library was salvaged and can now be found at granton:hub (Madelvic House), where the volunteer archive team has also collated all remaining hard copies of the North Edinburgh News newspaper.

Hopefully, between the physical archive and the NEN blog, you can find all you need to know about our community’s rich history – and we’re adding to that history every day!

Open Book Reading session at Drumbrae Library Hub

TUESDAY 20th JANUARY at 6pm

Join us for a relaxed and informal shared Open Book Reading Session where we will read aloud part of a book and poem, then an Open Book Lead Reader will help guide the discussion.

Tuesday 20th January at 6pm

Age 16+

This event is free although you will require a ticket which can be sourced through EventBrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/drumbrae-library-hub