Balfron Book Festival

13/09/2026

One week on and we’ve just about recovered from an amazing Balfron Book Festival!

A huge thank you to all our wonderful authors and creatives who helped us put together an action-packed programme, the wonderful Daydreams Bookshop, the local businesses who supported our raffle, our amazing volunteers who kept everything running smoothly and of course everyone who came along across the weekend - we truly couldn’t do it without you!

07/09/2026

A huge thank you to Gilly Mcarthur for helping us draw our raffle! Congratulations to our lucky winners, the team will be in touch with you in the next few days.

We are so grateful to all the wonderful local businesses who supported with prizes - thank you!

06/09/2026

It’s your last chance to enter our incredible raffle! We have an amazing selection of prizes from wonderful local businesses - come along to the Mclintock Hall until 4pm today to bag your tickets!

A huge thank you to all who have supported the raffle with wonderful prizes 💜

06/09/2026

Sorry folks, BASE no longer available this afternoon but we do still have loads of delicious cakes and bakes in McLintock Hall

06/09/2026

Just a little reminder for our attendees today, the Chris Hoy Tour de 4 cycling event is taking place today with the route encompassing some of Balfron’s surrounding roads. Please do check your journey in case you may be impacted.

Good luck to all those taking park! 🚲

Join Sir Chris Hoy's fundraising charity bike ride aimed at shining a spotlight on Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and demonstrating that it's possible to live well alongside this devastating diagnosis.

05/09/2026

Whew! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped kick Balfron Book Festival off in style! We’ve had an action-packed couple of days of author interviews, pop-up book sales, creative workshops, kids’ storytelling, comic making and more! We’re back tomorrow to do it all again, so head to the website to bag yourself some tickets or head along to the McLintock Hall from 10am for homebaking and our pop-up book sale!

https://bit.ly/4hbeLxE

04/09/2026

We’re ready for you!!!!

Come along to our Book-nic this afternoon from 3.15pm-5pm in the Kirk Halls (beside Donaldson Park).

FREE activity - no booking necessary.

Bring along a snack and enjoy a relaxing afternoon of stories, reading and fun!

Aimed at primary school children but all ages welcome! All children must be accompanied by a parent/carer.

04/09/2026

💥 Comic Making & Character Workshop 💥
We still have a few tickets remaining for this amazing creative workshop with comic artist Neil Slorance. Join Neil as he shares his top tips for drawing and creating your own character and making your very own comic in this 90 minute session.

❓Suitable for adults and kids ages 11+
🕰️ 11.30 - 1pm
🗓️ Saturday 5th September
📍 Balfron High School
🎟️ £5
🔗 https://bit.ly/4zW50La

03/09/2026

Have you visited this beautiful bookish wonderland?

Located in the heart of Milngavie, Daydreams is packed to the rafters with bestselling titles, Scottish authors and children’s reads, and the wonderful team will be joining us across the weekend!

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Elaine and the Daydreams Bookshop team again and they will be bringing their bounty of books to the festival so you can pick up our authors’ latest releases on the day.