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Cambridge Literary Festival is a charity working to advance education by the promotion of literature, language and the arts.

Twice each year we welcome a rich and diverse range of speakers to debate the urgent issues of the day, deliver lectures, present literary greats alongside emerging writers and welcome scientists, artists, politicians, environmentalists, comedians, novelists, historians, journalists and poets.

We are dedicated in our mission to enthuse a new generation of readers. Our FREE Children’s Festival returns every Spring, hosting an array of high-quality, fun, interactive events. We hold a FREE schools day in May for primary and secondary school children and aim to send them all home with a FREE book.

Your contribution can make a difference: 

  • £10 can pay for a free ticket to the Children’s Festival
  • £25 helps towards free books for children at the Schools Day
  • £50 helps towards the cost of an author for a free library event
  • £100 helps towards fun children’s activities at the festival
  • £180 covers the cost of supporting a team of volunteers for a day
  • £500 supports us to deliver reading projects in local schools

Monthly donations – large or small – are particularly welcome as they allow the Festival to plan ahead with confidence. 

Make a donation

Please support us to secure the Festival for future generations.

If you would like to discuss making a larger donation, please contact elizabeth@cambridgeliteraryfestival.com.

Thank you.

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