Budleigh Salterton Library

Budleigh Salterton Library All the wonderful events and activities that take place in Budleigh Salterton Library.

Two lovely volunteers from Seachange are outside the library this afternoon selling tickets for the Seachange open garde...
15/06/2026

Two lovely volunteers from Seachange are outside the library this afternoon selling tickets for the Seachange open gardens weekend (20th-21st June). If you buy early you get a discount and you can also start planning your route!! Don't forget to come in and get a book while you are here. :-)

Tickets are also on sale at Seachange throughout this week and over the weekend.

Cash only please at the library - cash or card at Seachange.

If you would like to have a stand outside the library please let us know. Lots of people walk past so it's a great place to advertise your wares!


Thank you to all our Lego builders who came to Lego club on Saturday and created some fantastic builds! Our challenge th...
12/06/2026

Thank you to all our Lego builders who came to Lego club on Saturday and created some fantastic builds! Our challenge this month was to create a mix of two animals to create a new Lego animal. We now have George [a mix of giraffe and bird] and Elebird [a mix of ladybird and elephant] keeping Dolphider [ a mix of dolphin and spider] company in our children's library! We also had some other brilliant builds too. Come and take a look at all our builds which will be on display until next Lego Club.

Lego Club will be taking a summer break in July as there are lots of other things going on but will be back on it's first Saturday in the month slot on August1st!

Everyone is always welcome at Lego Club. Just come along and enjoy building with our huge range of bricks!

There won't be a Bounce and Rhyme session here on Friday 19th June but Rachel will be back in the building on Friday 26t...
12/06/2026

There won't be a Bounce and Rhyme session here on Friday 19th June but Rachel will be back in the building on Friday 26th June 😄

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have launched a non-fiction festival read alongside their fiction festival read. We...
11/06/2026

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have launched a non-fiction festival read alongside their fiction festival read. We are now taking orders for The Traitors by Jonathan Freedland.

It costs £1 to order a book from any Devon library. It's free for children to order books. What a great service!!


A few of you have asked about donating plants to our annual plant sale. We decided to have a break from the sale this ye...
11/06/2026

A few of you have asked about donating plants to our annual plant sale. We decided to have a break from the sale this year as until recently we were facing an uncertain future.
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If you do have plants to donate our friends up at Seachange are having a plant sale over the weekend of the 20th-21st June which will tie in with their open gardens event. Seachange will be collecting donations of plants and gardenalia from Monday 14th June.
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We hope to reinstate our plant sale tradition next year, it's always a lot of fun and a great library fundraiser.




Some of our bright and cheerful folding chairs - that we use for all sorts of events and our popular weekly Bounce and R...
11/06/2026

Some of our bright and cheerful folding chairs - that we use for all sorts of events and our popular weekly Bounce and Rhyme sessions - were looking a bit tattered and torn. Thanks to the kind and wonderfully supportive Friends of Budleigh Library, we now have 6 brand new colourful chairs including a rather "random" grey chair, which we think may have ended up in the wrong box!

We had a captivating, illustrated author talk by Alison Huntingford in the library earlier this week. Alison's latest bo...
11/06/2026

We had a captivating, illustrated author talk by Alison Huntingford in the library earlier this week. Alison's latest book, "Beyond the Dark Oceans" utilised research she had carried out into her own family tree, with Georgy Huntingford as the main protagonist in this gripping and moving story, set between Canada and England in the early 1900s. Alison's use of photos and images - including an advertising bus - gave her audience a fascinating insight into the massive, government-promoted relocation in 1906, when the Canadian government offered free land, (homesteads) to many British families with the right skills and experience to start a productive new life in a new land.
It was Alison's second visit to Budleigh Library and we hope to have her back, in the not too distant future.

The Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival read this year is Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall.Our copy is on loan at th...
08/06/2026

The Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival read this year is Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall.

Our copy is on loan at the moment but you can order a copy of this (or any other book) for the bargain price of £1! Come in and speak to us or order online.

*there is no charge to order children's books.

If you are not a member of the library it is free and simple to join.


Budleigh Library will be closing for lunch from 12.30 - 1.30 on Thursday 25th June and from 12.30 - 1.30 on Thursday 2nd...
04/06/2026

Budleigh Library will be closing for lunch from 12.30 - 1.30 on Thursday 25th June and from 12.30 - 1.30 on Thursday 2nd July.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

Did you spot the stranger in the window?This year our Gala Week stranger was a poster from the beautiful St Mary's Libra...
04/06/2026

Did you spot the stranger in the window?

This year our Gala Week stranger was a poster from the beautiful St Mary's Library on the Isles of Scilly.
https://www.facebook.com/scillylibrary
Thank you to St Mary's Library for sending us a poster. It was lovely to link up with you. Rumour has it that you have a great view 🏖️

Thank you to the Budleigh Salterton Lions Club for organising Gala Week - especially for the ever popular spot the stranger which causes joy and frustration in equal measures. We love being part of it every year!



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