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Monday, February 27, 2012

Skittle night






Last Friday volunteers, committee members and staff from the toy library had a social night consisting of lasagne and skittles at a venue in Loughborough.

We were delighted that new staff members Jane and Maria were able to join us and get to know the people who are involved in keeping the toy library running.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Welcome back!

Welcome back to a new half term. There are lots of changes happening at the toy library in the next 6 weeks. Alison will be leaving us in 2 weeks' time and Jane will be coming on board. But play sessions and toy lending still continue. We look forward to seeing you during the run up to Easter.

Our optician's theme continues and runs into colours and shapes. Come and join in with our play sessions on Mon, Weds and Fri 9:30-12:00

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Half Term Fun

We hope everyone is having a great half term break.
Friends and members have been up to the following array of half term activities:
  • spring watch (who can spot the bulbs coming through),
  • baking cakes (carrot and orange - yum),
  • dominoes championship (both the normal game and domino toppling - great fun - but don't sneeze!),
  • blowing bubbles (and popping them!),
  • paper craft and junk modelling (cut out favourite cartoon character faces from comics, glue them to toilet roll tubes and put on your own puppet show!),
  • DVD and popcorn afternoon (we liked Desperaux and Over The Hedge),
  • Family board games (so many to choose from, so many laughs to be had!).
What have you all been up to?

See you next week.

Friday, February 10, 2012

New Staff Appointed

We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new people to the Toy Library, taking on the vital roles of the day to day running of the Toy Library and in conjuction with the Committee and our brilliant volunteers continuing our fundraising efforts which keeps the charity afloat: Jane Hancock and Maria Hudson. I would like to say thank you to both Alison and Nichole for their hard work and dedication to the Toy Library over a number of years and wish them well for their future endeavours . - Louise Bowles (chair)

Monday, February 6, 2012

Environmental Statement

We have published our Environmental Statement on the website, please see the quality and environment link in the menu on the right hand side of the page. The statement covers our commitment to protect the world's resources and covers toy stock, stationary and consumables, premises and working environment.

Fun in the snow!

It was good to see so many friends and volunteers of the toy library out on the playing fields at the weekend enjoying the snow!

The toy library is open in all weathers, although we appreciate that it may be difficult to come out in cold and icy conditions. If you are wondering how clear the roads are around us, please feel free to call and we'll give you an update.

If you do make it up to us, we have a good stock of hot drinks in the coffee-bar including some delicious hot chocolate!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

New guided play sheet

We have added our popular guided play sheet on "dough" to the play sheets plage. Click on the libk in the side menu to find it. A sheet on Outdoor Play will soon be added - once the weather gets a bit warmer!