The School Library Improvement Fund was established in 2017. It is funded by the Scottish Government and administered by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). Below is a list of previous Awards from the Fund listed by local authority.
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City Council- Seaton Primary Seaton Reads £8,200
Aberdeenshire Council-Laurencekirk Primary Inclusive Wellbeing, Creation and Stories £19,300
Aberdeenshire Council-Meldrum Academy Tackling Discrimination and Fostering Empathy £11,180
Dumfries & Galloway Council-Noblehill School Book Buddies £2000
Library, School Parent Council
Dundee Council-Morgan Academy Primary Tay See Oorsels £3,590
East Ayrshire Council - Bellsbank Primary Bellsbank Primary School's Lending Library £4,000
East Lothian Council - Wallyford Primary A Wonderful World of Words at Wallyford! £18,000
School & Nursery
Edinburgh City Council - Frogston Primary Holistic Inclusion Hub £17,654
School Library, Edinburgh Libraries
Falkirk Council - Denny Primary School Denny Primary School Library Legends £10,000
Glasgow City Council - Annette Street Primary, Traditional Tales-Story Gathering with Roma Communities £7,046
Romano Lavroma Community Organisation
Glasgow City Council - Cranhill Primary, Rise Up in Cranhill £11,620
Cranhill Development Trust
Glasgow City Council - The Queen's Park Spiders@KPPS:Weaving Connections £13,980
Football Club, King's Park Primary School
Glasgow City Council - Thornwood Primary, Multilingual Marvels £13,600
Scotland's National Centre for Languages
Glasgow City Council - Scotstoun & Growing a Reading Community Literacy £6,500
St Paul's Primary School Inclusion & wellbeing at Scotstoun & St Paul's
Glasgow City Council - Cadder Primary Cadder Primary Community Library £9,923
Inverclyde - across Inverclyde Schools Heard in the Library-Voices of Change from Inverclyde £23,350
North Ayrshire - Ardrossan Academy Library, Let Me Tell You A Story £3,650
Winton Primary, Ardrossan Pubic Library
Renfrewshire - Across 10 schools in Glasgow The Library Young Team- Libraries LYT Up Lives! £19,734
& Renfrewshire, partnering with Glasgow Life
Renfrewshire - St Andrew's Academy Research Hub - St Andrew's Academy £3,619
Scottish Borders - Leader Valley School Leader Valley Literacy Lounge £5000
Scottish Borders - Tweedbank Primary, The Reading Retreat £4,018
SBC Inclusion & Wellbeing Service
You can also download the 2023 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
East Ayrshire – Kilmarnock Academy Building Racial Literacy £3,000
East Dunbartonshire – Turnbill High School Exploring The Holocaust £3,705
East Dunbartonshire – St Ninian’s High School Human Rights, Story Writes £4,500
East Lothian – Preston Lodge High School East Lothian Black History £3,300
Glasgow – Holy Cross Primary Diverse Stories £10,000
Glasgow – St Mungo’s Primary School Developing the Young Workforce & celebrating £14,255
The diverse community of St Mungo’s
Perth & Kinross – Lochleven Community Library/ I Read For… Change, Understanding, Empowerment £3,700
Kinross High School
Perth & Kinross – Crieff High School Protest Prejudice £10,000
South Lanarkshire – Strathaven Academy Diversity & Racial Equality Education £5,000
Successful Collaborative Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeenshire – Fraserburgh Academy, Fraserburgh FC Widening the Pitch £2,700
& Aberdeen FC
Clackmannanshire – Alloa & Lornshill Academy/Empathy Lab Building Empathy Through Books: Empathy Champions £8,942
East Lothian – East Lothian School Libraries Stand Up and Be Counted £50,000
Edinburgh – Edinburgh School Libraries The Library is Anti-Racist: A Toolkit for School Libraries £29,000
Glasgow – Oakgrove Primary /WOSDEC Home Is Here £17,400
Glasgow – Shawlands Primary School Inclusive Creative Arts & Literacy Lounge £10,500
/Rumpus Room
Glasgow – All Saints Secondary/Lochend Community High/ White Water Writers £18,730
School of Education – University of Glasgow
Inverclyde – Post Glasgow Campus Library/Larkfield Reading Around the World £4,000
Early Learning/St Francis Nursery Class/Rainbow Family Centre
Perth & Kinross – Inchview Primary & Nursery/Nil By Mouth 383 Neeps and Tatties and Counting £4,650
You can also download the 2022 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen – Dyce Academy Hear a Story/Tell a Story £4,000
Angus – Arbroath Academy & Prtnrs OPEN – A Book, Your Eyes, Your World £1,630
Borders – Eyemouth High Get Woke £8,150
Dumfries & Galloway – North West Community Campus Bringing Diversity, Racial Equality to the NWCC £1,020
East Lothian – Musselburgh Grammar Digital Storybag £4,900
East Lothian – Letham Mains PS with EL Council The Borrowers Bus £9,000
Falkirk – Bonnybridge Primary Bonnybooks – For a’ Jock Tamsons Bairns £24,940
Fife – Carleton PS The Same Page £5,500
Glasgow – Barmulloch PS & Additional Learning Needs Digital & Family Learning Hub £13,000
Glasgow – Lourdes Secondary Inclusive Storytelling for Health Minds £15,870
Moray – Forres Academy Equality, Inclusion, Diversity & A Mentally Healthy School £3,750
Perth & Kinross -Breadalbane Community Library/ Read It Racism £4,220
Breadalbane Academy Read It Racism
South Ayrshire – Prestwick Academy Library & Ayr Academy Library Read Woke Primaries £44,000
South Lanarkshire – St Andrew’s & St Bride’s Equal Voices Using Anti-Racist & Diverse Texts £5,125
South Lanarkshire – Leadhills Primary Leadhills Primary Support Hub £6,160
Successful Collaborative Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City – Harclaw Academy & Cults Academy Erika’s Suitcase £8,000
Borders – Berwickshire High Let Them In: Literacy Through Gothic Drama £3,700
Fife – Bell Baxter Cluster Racial Equality Transition Project £9,000
Glasgow – St Albert’s Primary School & Barrowland Ballet We Can Be Heroes £11,120
North Ayrshire – Auchenharvie Cluster Keep The Heid ‘n’ Read Even Mair! £16,400
You can also download the 2021 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City – Aberdeen Grammar School Pupil Voices £1,400
Clackmannanshire – Sauchie ELC Sauchie Storytellers £2,000
East Ayrshire – East Ayrshire Secondary School Libraries Scots Stories £7,900
East Lothian – Elphinstone Primary School Elphy Tales £3,000
East Renfrewshire – Woodfarm HS, Eastwood HS Maddie is Online £9,373
& Robert Gordon University
Glasgow – Sighthill Community Campus Our Inclusive Wellbeing Library £10,350
Glasgow – Glasgow Life & 12 Secondary Schools EAL Book Group & Glasgow Guide for New Scots £13,770
Highland – Millbank Primary School Reading for Resilience, Recuperation & Regrowth £6,000
North Ayrshire – Auchenharvie Academy, Largs Campus Keep The Heid ‘n’ Read! £17,600
University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland
St Aidan’s High School
Shetland - Anderson High School AHS Reads! £4,275
South Ayrshire – South Ayrshire School Libraries Read Woke! £11,682
Western Isles – The Nicolson Institute Library Nook £9,500
You can also download the 2020 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
School Library Improvement Fund 2019- 2020 Interim
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City – Skene Square Primary Story Surfers at Skene Square £4,410
Aberdeenshire – Aboyne Academy Promoting Passion for Reading at Home £13,750
East Ayrshire – Flowerbank Early Childhood Centre Reading Sessions in our Reading Nook £6,750
Edinburgh – Buckstone Primary Buckstone Buzzes with Books £8,500
Falkirk – Antonine Primary The Reading Forest, Bringing the Outdoors In £8,300
Falkirk – Carmuirs Primary Reflect & Glow – Emotional Literacy £5,000
Highland – Alness Academy Virtually – Enhancing the Imagination Virtually £11,277
Midlothian – All Midlothian Secondary Schools Paired Reading – Improving Literacy in Younger Students £12,000
& Developing Leadership & Employability Skills for Senior Students
North Ayrshire – St Luke’s Primary Literacy Loving Lifelong Learners £9,200
North Lanarkshire – Lawmuir Primary Robbie Says Reading Opens the Mind to New Adventures £5,000
Stirling – Bridge of Allan Primary Supporting the Literacy Skills of Children and £5,800
Parents with English as an Additional Language
West Dunbartonshire – West Dunbartonshire Libraries Pass IT On: Using digital technology for peer education £1,800
and Cultural Services on social issues
Successful Collaborative Applications
Glasgow Life with Ashton Secondary, Linburn Secondary Sensory Being – Belonging within my Immediate, Local £18,260
Newhills Secondary & Glasgow Life School Library & wider Community
Outreach Service
Glasgow Life & University of Strathclyde See Yourself in STEM £13,080
Highlands – Inverness High ASG & Highlife Highland Inverness High School ASG Library Transition Project £5,960
Libraries, the University of Dundee with Sarah in the media for young people in North Lanarkshire through
Pavey (Independent Trainer) partnership working
Stirling – Doune Primary & Nursery, Doune Library Doune the Library £4,300
And Red Kite Community Nursery
You can also download the 2019 2020 Interim School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Individual Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City – Countesswells Primary School Book Blethers & Developing a Love of Reading £2,600
Aberdeen City – Kittybrewster Primary School Developing a Love of Reading £5,000
Aberdeenshire – Banchory Academy Reading Beyond the School Walls £1,200
Aberdeenshire – Drumblade Primary School Language Lab £18,000
Angus – Webster’s High School & Forar Academy Well Aware £1,838
Argyll & Bute - Oban High School A Bridge from Misery to Hope £4,000
Argyll & Bute – Kirn Primary School Kirn Family Fun with Literacy £2,800
Borders – Philiphaugh Community School Brilliant Book Clubs £7,183
Clackmannanshire – St Serf’s Community School #StSerfsWeLoveReading Community Library Hub £2,645
Clackmannanshire – Tilly Primary School Inspiring a New Generation of Readers £10,000
Dumfries & Galloway – Lockerbie Academy Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader £1,000
Dundee – Dundee School Library Service Drawn from Experience £11,100
East Ayrshire – East Ayrshire Secondary Schools Visual Tales £17,200
East Renfrewshire – Our Lady of the Missions PS Stem Mobile Library £10,635
Edinburgh – Lorne Primary School Lorne’s Literature Loving Families £8,000
Falkirk – Falkirk Secondary Schools Hizara Tantara £21,400
Falkirk – Falkirk Primary & Secondary Schools Fostering a Love of Reading Within Families £21,000
Fife – Hill of Beath Primary School Hill of Beath Scots Celebration Library £6,500
Glasgow – Haghill Park PS, Parkhill Secondary, Whitehill From Reading to Writing £11,590
Secondary, Smithycroft Secondary School
Glasgow – Chirnsyde Primary School Tea, Tales & Togetherness £5,440
Moray – Elgin Academy Raising Awareness of Everyday Sexism £3,000
North Ayrshire – Irvine Royal Academy Royal Readers £9,937
Perth & Kinross – Balhousie Primary School Balhousie is Reading £4,318
Renfrewshire – Renfrewshire School Libraries Dip into Digital £13,510
South Ayrshire – Prestwick Academy Library Project in a Box £4,550
South Ayrshire – Marr College School Library A Digital & Vinyl Timeline of Our History £4,160
South Lanarkshire – Duncanrig Secondary School Readers Together £6,800
South Lanarkshire – Crawforddyke Primary & Nursery Nurturing a Love of Reading £5,000
Stirling – Balfron High School Mental Health Hub £3,200
Successful Collaborative Applications
Aberdeenshire - Ellon Academy & Peterhead Academy Media Skills for Schools £15,349
Clackmannanshire – Lornshill Academy Voice it Out! £3,500
Glasgow – Glasgow Schools Words That Burn £16,860
Glasgow Sandalwood Primary & Sandalwood LCR Family Learning Café £11,500
You can also download the 2019 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PDF
Successful Applications
Applicant Project Award Amount
Aberdeen City – Oldmachar Academy Storytelling @Oldmachar £6,000
Aberdeenshire – Banff Academy Supporting Scottish Studies & Scots Language £1,500
Angus – Schools & Learning Team Mentoring Programme £3,260
Dundee City – Morgan Academy Looking Beyond Google £6,000
Dundee City – Dundee School Library Service Two Moons £20,095
East Ayrshire – East Ayrshire Secondary Schools Balancing the Books LGBT+ Resource Project £10,000
East Dunbartonshire – St Ninian’s High School MYStory in the Library £5,448
East Lothian – East Lothian Council East Lothian School Library Lego Therapy £15,150
East Lothian – East Lothian Council My Future East Lothian £9,500
Edinburgh City – Lifelong Learning Team Escape, Connect, Relate £18,100
Edinburgh City – Towerbank Primary School Our Library by the Sea £6,000
Glasgow – Holyrood Secondary School Creative Writing Project with Roma Community £13,600
Glasgow – 5 Glasgow High Schools STEAM as an Enabler to Teach Digital & information Literacy Skills £10,693
Glasgow – Hillington Primary School Closing the Gap – Encouraging Boys to Read £10,000
Glasgow - Smithycroft Secondary, East Shawlands Academy LGBT Creative Writing & Online Community using GLOW £7,220
& Hillhead High School
Highland – Culloden Academy Read to Succeed, Rural Skills & Nature Explorers £2,500
Highland – Dornoch Academy Rural Skills Reading Development Programme £1,449
Highland – Ullapool Community Library Nature Explorers £8,050
Highland – Milton of Leys Primary School Wonderful World of Wellbeing £4,100
Inverclyde – Inverclyde Academy Kicking Off Reading with Morton FC £2,000
Inverclyde – LRC at Port Glasgow Community Campus Game On in the LRC £2,000
Inverclyde – Inverclyde Academy Library High Five Club £2,500
Midlothian - Newbattle HS & Lasswade HS Write Space – Bibliotherapy in the School Setting £7,884
Midlothian – Lasswade High School Using Graphic Novels to Encourage Reluctant Readers £1,000
Moray – Buckie High School Promoting Mental Wellbeing £7,500
North Ayrshire – North Ayrshire Primary & ASN Schools Building Better Readers £44,700
North Ayrshire – St Mathew’s Academy Express Yourself £4,748
North Ayrshire – North Ayrshire Library Services Grow North Ayrshire £9,800
North Ayrshire – Greenwood Making History Greenwood Making History £8,900
Renfrewshire – Renfrewshire School Libraries Library Transitions for Senior Pupils to High Schools £5,000
South Ayrshire – Prestwick Academy Library Found Photos: Prestwick Community Past, Present, Future £5,500
South Lanarkshire – St John Ogilvie High School Breakfast Club & After School Club £6,640
Stirling – Wallace High School Learning Community Reading Project £2,000
Stirling – Riverside Primary School Riverside’s Digital Readers £5,276
Borders – Eyemouth High School & PS Cluster Reading for Resilience £3,382
West Dunbartonshire – West Dunbartonshire Libraries Speak Up £6,600
West Lothian – Whitburn Academy Library Mental Health & Wellbeing Club £6,000
Western Isles – Western Isles High Schools Reading Rockets £27,600
You can also download the 2018 School Library Improvement Fund Awards as a PD
