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and built partnerships with the Social Prescribing Network, they have developed guidance on services to support children and young people’s mental health following the pandemic and worked with the Inn Crowd8
to support a performing arts tour of libraries.
The offers also allow us, as a sector, to build both regional and national pictures of the services libraries provide and the impacts they have. For example, gathering everything that happens in a region under the Health and Wellbeing Offer starts to create a very powerful story about the role of the region’s libraries in improving the health and wellbeing of the region. It provides more robust evidence to create regional and national campaigns, partnerships and funded programmes. They provide a way of connecting local, regional and national activity, helping to build skills and through collaboration and expertise-sharing, they move the sector forward.
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Find out how your library service uses the Universal Library Offers and the Promises.
Look at the services your library delivers for each of the Offers.
Subscribe to Libraries Connected Newsletter9
on the to join conversations about national projects and programmes.
Check out all the details about the Universal Library Offers10 Libraries Connected website.
Culture and Creativity
Curious, Creative and Cohesive Communities
OPPORTUNITY
Provide opportunities that spark curiosity, imagination, creativity and fun.
PARTICIPATION
Enable access to, and participation in high quality arts and cultural activities.
ENRICHMENT
Enrich people’s lives, enabling new creative skills and talent to flourish.
UNDERSTANDING
Celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity, encourage understanding and tolerance of one another.
Information and Digital
Inform, Inspire and Innovate
ACCESS Provide access to high quality information and digital services.
INFORM
Help individuals to find answers and make informed life choices.
DEVELOPMENT
Enable individuals and communities to develop new skills and to feel safe online.
INNOVATE
Stimulate innovation and development through access to digital opportunities.
The ambitions of the four Offers
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