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Scottish Book Trust
Sandeman House
Trunk’s Close
55 High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1SR
T: 0131 524 0160
F: 0131 524 0161
E: info@scottishbooktrust.com
W: www.scottishbooktrust.com 

Scottish charity no. SC027669 - Company no. 184248

About Scottish Book Trust

Every year, Scottish Book Trust:

  • Invests £3 million per year to inspire and encourage readers and writers in Scotland
  • Funds over 1,200 literature events connecting 50,000 readers with writers through Live Literature funding
  • Reaches every baby in Scotland through its Bookstart book gifting programme
  • Champions and supports over 400 Scottish writers and illustrators throughout their careers
  • Runs the biggest children's book awards in the UK, judged by over 25,000 schoolchildren
  • Develops resources to support hundreds of teachers and librarians improve literacy
  • Promotes the joy of reading and writing to 200,000 online visitors a year, including teenagers
  • Individual contacts for queries about:


    Sponsorship, funding and organisation: marc.lambert@scottishbooktrust.com
    jeanette.harris@scottishbooktrust.com

    Website:
    paul.gallagher@scottishbooktrust.com 

    Marketing and audience development: marion.bourbouze@scottishbooktrust.com

    Overall programme:
    sophie.moxon@scottishbooktrust.com

    Live Literature funding:
    clare.rodgers@scottishbooktrust.com

    Writer development:
    caitrin.armstrong@scottishbooktrust.com

    Children's programme:
    jasmine.fassl@scottishbooktrust.com
    kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com
    heather.collins@scottishbooktrust.com

    Touring programme:
    chris.newton@scottishbooktrust.com


    Early Years programme:
    caroline.mcleod@scottishbooktrust.com
    helen.croney@scottishbooktrust.com
    francesca.brennan@scottishbooktrust.com
    tracy.lowe@scottishbooktrust.com
    catriona.wallace@scottishbooktrust.com
    rosalyn.mcglynn@scottishbooktrust.com
    helen.mckinnes@scottishbooktrust.com


    Education, literature in learning:
    philippa.cochrane@scottishbooktrust.com

    Venue hire:
    michael.merillo@scottishbooktrust.com

    Press enquiries:
    olivier.joly@scottishbooktrust.com

    Finance:
    julia.collins@scottishbooktrust.com

    National short story award:
    query@booktrust.org.uk


    Scottish Book Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 184248 and a Registered Charity.
    Scottish Charity No. SC027669. VAT No. GB 717377319.

    Board members

    Lucy Juckes, Literary Agent, Jenny Brown Asociates (Chair)

    Alan Gibson, Director, TSYS Europe (Acting Treasurer)

    Alan Bissett, Novelist

    Anne Campbell, Education Officer (Culture & Creativity), Creative Education Arts Team (CREATE), Schools Services, Dumfries and Galloway Council

    Fiona Hendry, Associate Director, Colman Getty Scotland Consultancy

    Bob Irvine, Senior Civil Servant, Scottish Government

    Tom Pow, Author and Poet

    Patrons

    Alexander McCall Smith
    Andrew O'Hagan
    Joan Lingard

     

    How to find us?

    Directions to Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunk's Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR:-

    Click here for a map

     

    Directions from Waverley Train Station

    Leave by Market Street exit. Turn left onto Market Street and then right onto Jeffrey Street and follow the road round to Jury's Inn Hotel (on right as you go up Jeffrey Street). At the hotel take a right up Chalmers Close (the close cuts through middle of hotel) to High Street. At the top of the close turn left and Trunk's Close (55 High Street) is a few doors down, next to a Kiltmaker and near John Knox House. Walk down Trunk's Close and Sandeman House is directly in front of you.

    Alternatively, turn right onto Market Street and then take first left up Cockburn Street. At the top of Cockburn Street, turn left onto High Street continue down to traffic lights. Cross over and continue down the High Street to Trunk's Close (55 High Street) next to a Kiltmaker and near John Knox House. Walk down Trunk's Close and Sandeman House is directly in front of you.

     

    Directions from Princes Street (East End)

    Walk up North Bridge and take first left on to the High Street - Trunk's Close is on this block. Walk down the High Street and Trunk's Close (55 High Street) is on the left just before John Knox's House. Walk down Trunk's Close and Sandeman House is directly in front of you.

     

    By Bus

    To the High Street - No 35 ask for the stop beside John Knox House.

    To North Bridge - Nos, 3,7,8,14,29, 31,33,37,49 ask for first stop on North Bridge.

    For more information contact Lothian Buses on 0131 555 6363 or www.lothianbuses.co.uk

     

    Parking

    Unfortunately, you cannot park on The High Street, but you can park nearby on Market Street, Jeffrey Street or at the NCP car park beneath the Radisson SAS Hotel Car Park on Blackfriars Street.

    If you possess a valid Blue Badge you may park free of charge in all disabled and public parking spaces, the nearest public parking bays are in Jeffery Street. Parking in residents' bays is not permitted unless you have applied for and displayed an exempt residents' permit for the appropriate parking zone and it is accompanied by your Blue Badge. Further information from Edinburgh Council is available here.



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