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Thank you for supporting our Book Drive

17 December 2020Newswebmaster

Our 2nd Annual Children’s Book Drive was a huge success! A big thank you to everyone that donated books and helped spread the word. We collected more than 900 books!!!

We were able to donate books to 8 different organizations that included six Children’s Homes, two Mother/Children Group Homes, and one Café for women and children refugees.

All of the people at these different organizations were so happy to receive these books and so grateful that we thought of these kids and families.

Please tell your children that the books they donated helped to spread some love to some kids that needed it. Thank you all so much for participating and let’s do it again next year!

CEL Closed.

11 December 2020Newswebmaster

Dear Members,

Following the announcement today, by the Landesregierung in Baden-Würrtemberg, that people should stay at home where ever possible, we have taken the decision to close CEL for the rest of this year.

In the spirit of keeping our members and volunteers safe, we feel it better not to encourage you to come in to town. If you are out and about for work etc. and would like to contactlessly return your books, or collect some to keep the children occupied during the pre-Christmas period, this will be possible – subject to availability of our contactless volunteer. Please e-mail contactless@celstuttgart.de

We wish all our members a healthy year end and hope things get easier in 2021.

The CEL Board

CEL Gift Membership – now available

27 November 2020Newswebmaster

Looking for a non-material gift for your children this year? The Children’s English Library has you covered. This year, give the gift that keeps on giving – reading!

Our gift certificates cost €50 and cover a year’s library membership for the whole family. There’s something for everyone in the family thanks to our catalogue of over 7000 books, audiobooks, games and media items.

Ordering is easy. If you’re at the library, simply ask the desk volunteer. If you can’t make it to the library order online https://celstuttgart.de/membership/cel-gift-membership/

Second Annual Children’s Book Drive

2 November 2020Newswebmaster

Dear CEL Members,
The second annual Children’s Book Drive begins this week. We will once again be collecting new or gently used German language children’s books to donate to local children’s homes.

This has been a hard year for many, unimaginably hard for my family. Let’s try to do something good and spread some Holiday cheer to some children that could use it.

Please help us to make this book drive a success by donating books if you can and by spreading the word to others.

Thank you for your help,

Liz Weiser
Chair, CEL Board

No tricks, just a treat!

29 October 2020Event, Newswebmaster

A quick reminder to all that we are OPEN tomorrow between 10am and 12pm and again 14:30-17:30 for Halloween Week!
We look forward to seeing all of you Witches and Wizards in your spookiest costumes, and enjoy taking out our great range of Halloween books! And there might just be a small treat for our youngest visitors

#englishbooksstuttgart #CELstuttgart #childrensenglishlibrary #kidsenglishbooks #bilingualstuttgart #halloween #halloweenstuttgart

It’s Halloween Week at CEL Stuttgart…

26 October 2020Event, Newswebmaster

It’s Halloween Week at CEL Stuttgart and we are inviting all of our members to dress up in their favourite Halloween outfits on Friday 30th of October, when we are once again open from 10am – 12pm and 14:30-17:30.
We have a lot of Halloween themed books still available to borrow – feel free to have a browse and get into the SPIRIT of things!!

*Please remember that during COVID times we are only permitted to allow 2 families in the library at a time.*

And everyone needs to wear a mask 🙂

#englishbooksstuttgart #CELstuttgart #childrensenglishlibrary #kidsenglishbooks #bilingualstuttgart #halloween #halloweenstuttgart

We can open on Friday 30th October in the afternoon

23 October 2020Newswebmaster

We are pleased to say that we have found a volunteer for Friday afternoon next week.

We will be open on Friday 30th October from

10:00-12:00
14:30-17:30

Corona permitting!

Stay safe and keep reading,

the CEL Board

Half-term and looking for new volunteers…

21 October 2020Newswebmaster

Dear Members,

CEL will be closed on Saturdays 24th and 31st October due to the school holidays.
On Friday 30th October we will be open in the morning only – unless a volunteer signs up for the afternoon in the next week!

On the subject of volunteers… we have lost two of our old hands due to relocation over the summer. If you would like to join our team of desk volunteers we are offering training dates in the near future. There can probably only be one or two trainees per session due to distancing etc. but if you would like to join our pool of volunteers for Fridays or Saturdays please contact Emma – emma.fuch@celstuttgart.de and let her know which of the dates below you could make

Wed evening 11th November
Or
Wednesday morning 25th November
Or
Saturday morning 28th November

We are doing our best to keep the library open in these difficult times, whilst keeping our volunteers and members as safe as possible. Many thanks for helping with this.

Stay well and keep reading,

the CEL Team

Good news … we have a volunteer for Friday afternoons too!

24 September 2020Newswebmaster

We are pleased to announce that we have now covered the next few Friday afternoons so our opening hours can return to “normal”

Fridays 10:00-12:00
Fridays 14:30-17:30
Saturdays 14:00-17:00

looking forward to seeing you at CEL (mit Abstand und Maske)

We are also pleased to welcome, after this evening’s Annual General Meeting Lindsay, Vanessa and Michele to the board and thank Jane for agreeing to stand for reelection. Thank you to those who attended the AGM and to all the board members for giving up their time to CEL.

happy reading and best wishes,

The CEL Board

CEL update – opening times and AGM

15 September 2020Newswebmaster

We are pleased to announce that CEL will be open on

Fridays 10:00-12:00
Saturdays 14:00-17:00

and additionally this Friday 18th September from 14:30-17:30

for the return and borrowing of books.
We hope to be able to offer more Friday afternoons – currently it is looking like we have volunteers once a month – please check the website calendar for exact details.

Please remember that Corona Prevention Measures still apply and we can not currently offer any activities at CEL.

We look forward to seeing you to change your books in the near future.

Annual General Meeting – our AGM is scheduled for Thursday 24th September at 19:30 please let Jane jane.eggert@celstuttgart.de know if you would like to attend either in person or via zoom and she will give you more details.