Breathing Places

Breathing Places is a BBC campaign which aims to get people involved in nature and their local environment.

Leicestershire Library Services are pleased to be working with the BBC to promote and support the campaign.

Inspiration at your local library

Events in libraries

Markfield Reading Garden

Inspiration and information at your local library

Borrow books for all the family on wildlife, nature and the environment. Titles to get you started (PDF, 250kb)
Find information about local wildlife, nature, conservation and environment groups. Search Infolinx.

Also see these useful websites:

BBC Breathing Places

LCC Community Heritage Initiative - encouraging everyone to record and celebrate the wildlife of Leicestershire.

LCC Country Parks - get out and about in Leicestershire.

Events in libraries

During 2007 there were many displays, events and activities in libraries inspiring everyone to get involved with Breathing Places.

Markfield Reading Garden

Mercenfeld Primary School, Markfield, in partnership with Leicestershire Library Services and Leicestershire Environment and Heritage Services has been awarded a Big Lottery Fund Breathing Places grant to create a Reading Garden in an area between the school and Markfield Library. The Reading Garden will be designed and planted to become a wildlife haven. Library users will have access to the garden for their own personal reading enjoyment and organised library activities, such as storytimes, will take on a new dimension. The garden will be an outdoor classroom and lunchtime picnic area for school use and Big Lottery Fund logo

community groups will also be encouraged to use it. Work on creating the Reading Garden is well underway.

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Breathing Places

Inspiration and information at your local library

Events in libraries

Markfield Reading Garden

further information