Stanford Winter Workshop 2: Grade 5 Having Fun Workshop Reports For a change, this workshop report is from the children! Triza, Busiswa, Liko, Ouola and Mpokisen gave feedback on a fun (and funny) morning Read more
Stanford Winter Workshop 1: 11 July, Who AM I? Workshop Reports Twenty Grade Fours arrived bang on time with our CBN community helper at 10.00 this morning. The Butterfly Centre again hospitably allowed us to Read more
CBN and Enlighten Education Trust: Winter workshops Workshop Reports The winter school holidays saw the beginning of what we hope will be a long association with Enlighten at their beautiful premises in Hermanus. Read more
Green, green workshops! (Day Three) Workshop Reports Cold but sunny was a good forecast for children who need to let off steam before workshops and during lunch. The third day of Read more
Green, green workshops! (Day Two) Workshop Reports The second day of CBN’s Green, Green Theme workshop at Enlighten Education Trust in Hermanus had all children returning – plus a couple of Read more
Green, green workshops! (Day One) Workshop Reports For the first (but certainly not the last) time CBN worked with Enlighten Trust in Hermanus to bring a workshop with a conservation theme Read more
CBN Joint workshop with Centre for the Book 4 June 2016 Workshop Reports Books and Stories were the theme – and CBN launched our toolbox of the same name at a lovely festival of story on a Read more
Bees and Bee Books! General Reports On Saturday 28 May a rather huge group of children wanted to join what turned out to be a successful morning for twelve signed Read more
Cat Workshop in Stanford Workshop Reports On Saturday, 30 April, CBN held its second workshop in Stanford, entitled Cats. Word had got out about the CBN workshops, and 32 children Read more
Outing to Panthera Africa General Reports Excited children boarded the minibus on Friday, 29 April for a visit to Panthera Africa Big Cat Sanctuary. The field trip marked the start Read more
Happy Birthday! CBN Books World Book Day 2016 is here. The event is commemorated every year on 23 April by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Read more
The Stanford book party begins … General Reports A first workshop in a new area is always a little tense. Will the children come? Well, at the frst CBN workshop in Stanford, Read more
2015 Annual Report now online General Reports We are pleased to present our annual report for a very exciting year of workshops and CBN activities. To see the full report, please Read more
Singing up a workshop … Workshop Reports CBN has been working with books and music for years now. They go together like … well, like children and books should. On 29 Read more
A library for kids in a backyard CBN Books A Cape Flats dad has converted his backyard into a library to encourage the children in his neighbourhood to read. What better news to Read more
Celebrating Books and Reading! General Reports What a pleasure to visit a beautiful library in Grassy Park, full of books and interest and, above all, READERS! Library Week in South Read more
How do we select children for workshops? What Children? We allow a self-selection process, which is administered by community workers or librarians. Permissions forms are issued to children who are interested (hopefully within Read more
Where does CBN work? What Children? The CBN team works with children who are needy in all of these aspects of their lives, underprivileged in the lack of opportunity and Read more