Mini Vinnies ILF Book Swap 2025 - Thank You!
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Thank you to the huge number of families and students who have donated to the 2025 ILF Book Swap. Once again, it has been an overwhelming response and goes to show much our Lauries community can rally behind a great cause! There was an incredible amount of excitement on Wednesday as students were able to peruse all of the books. Many students and staff members were able to purchase beautiful books this week to add to their home collections. It made teachers happy to see such enjoyment over reading.
Remaining books will be donated to Care Kits for Kids and St Francis’ Table, which are Treacy House and Nagle House’s charity initiatives for 2025. Treacy House will put together kits for kids who need to flee domestic violence situations. Our beautiful books will hopefully help those kids to feel some comfort in difficult circumstances. St Francis’ Table will use the books for home packs for people in our local area doing it tough.
All funds raised this week go to the Indigenous Literacy Fund. We believe we have raised just over $870! This is absolutely a record number for the ten years the Book Swap has been running.
The ILF will use this money to run literacy programs for adults and children in Indigenous communities and fund projects for Indigenous authors to produce books in their own language for the youth of their community.
Our boys take home brilliant ‘new’ books in mint condition for enjoyment at their leisure. This Mini Vinnies initiative really is a win-win-win situation for all involved!