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 As
we celebrate our 150th year of libraries in the Bradford District we
are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a £200,000
grant to adapt our library facilities and make them more flexible and
usable.
Bradford Libraries is among more than 60 galleries,
museums, libraries and other cultural venues to receive a grant from
the Government’s Cultural Investment Fund.
The Libraries Improvement Fund was developed to transform
library services in England by helping them upgrade their buildings and
digital infrastructure so they can respond to the changing ways people
use them. The grant of £200,000 is awarded by the Department for
Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England.
The grant will go towards a £250,000 project to make
adaptations to Council owned library buildings to make them more
flexible and usable for community and partner use for a wide range of
information and advice sessions, activities and meetings including
making provision for those taking place outside of normal library
opening hours.
This will build on the existing good work going on in our
libraries to support people with their health and wellbeing, skills and
employment and school readiness and is in line with the new vision and
model for the libraries service for the future and will provide an
increased opportunity to develop our library creative, cultural,
learning and family offers.
The core library offer will not be affected by these plans
and it is hoped that in time the offer of books and activities will be
expanded.
Cllr Sarah Ferriby, Bradford Council's Executive Member
for Healthy People and Places, said: “We are delighted with this
news and this funding will really support our vision for our libraries
in the future. We are very proud of our library service and what
we can offer our residents but we know that we have to do things
differently in the future and work on unlocking the real potential our
libraries have to improve the lives of our residents.
"We want our libraries to be at the heart of our
communities for years to come and we know that our libraries will have
to adapt to meet the needs of our residents and this funding will allow
us to start working on adapting and improving our services and offers.”
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