Community Libraries Network

🌟 Big news! The Community Libraries Network Awards 2025 winners have been announced!
Celebrate with us online on 9 Dec 🎥
🎟 Reserve your spot: bit.ly/4ie4D6n
Explore their achievements 👉 bit.ly/3Ke2omS
#CommunityLibraries #Awards2025 #LibrariesMatter

📚Wonderful to see @JanetDabyMP visit Corbett Community Library, celebrating its role as a thriving hub for literacy, digital inclusion & community life. A brilliant example of people-powered libraries making a real difference!
🔗Read More bit.ly/4hFXQCc

Stephen Kinnock MP recently visited Taibach Community Library to celebrate its role in the community, meet volunteers, and discuss the importance of supporting grassroots library initiatives. You can read more here: bit.ly/43HTOTS #CommunityLibraries @taibachlibrary.bsky.social

Good Things Foundation’s founder and CEO, Helen Milner to retire | Good Things Foundation Helen Milner OBE, founder and Chief Executive of Good Things Foundation, has announced her retirement in Spring 2026, after 15 years of dedicated service.

Our founder and CEO, Helen Milner OBE, has announced her retirement in Spring 2026.

She says: “Good Things is a wonderful organisation with a clear mission and strategy, full of dedicated people. 2026 is a good time to pass the leadership into new hands”. Read more: bit.ly/3I0tj4L.

Community Libraries Network Welcomes New Trustees to Champion a Bold, People-Powered Movement - Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network The Community Libraries Network (CLN) is delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to its Board, Sue Kerr as Chair of Trustees and Ben Gould as Secretary. This follows the appointment ...

Community Libraries Network Welcomes New Trustees to Champion a Bold, People-Powered Movement: The Community Libraries Network (CLN) is delighted to announce the appointment of two new trustees to its Board, Sue Kerr as Chair of Trustees and Ben Gould as Secretary... bit.ly/4lrH7Ty

This #LibrariesWeek, we're celebrating all the ways that #LibrariesChangeLives.

We love this quote from Vicki at Bristol Library, who told us why she thinks libraries are so special 📚 @cilip.bsky.social

Libraries Change Lives logo. Sustaining Economic Growth. 2–8 June, www.cilip.org.uk/libraries-change-lives CILIP logo. image of three peoplw in a library setting

From 2–8 June we're celebrating #LibrariesChangeLives by sustaining economic growth, showcasing how libraries and information professionals drive innovation and opportunity across the UK.
Share how your organisation contributes to local or national growth: www.cilip.org.uk/page/librari...

CMLNPN Trustee Recruitment - Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network CMLNPN are recruiting to 2 trustee board roles, please click on the links below to find out more information on the role descriptions: Trustee Secretary Chair of Trustees If you are interested in appl...

🚨We're recruiting!
Join the Community Libraries Network as a Trustee Chair or Secretary and help shape the future of community managed libraries across the UK.
📚Passionate about libraries?
🗣️Skilled in leadership or governance?
Apply now and make a difference!
🔗https://bit.ly/43MHMsS

Trading for Good Information Session #2 - Power to Change Learn how Trading for Good can help you develop your community business through a specialist programme of support.

Interested in applying for Trading for Good?

The programme gives you skills, funding and a network so that you can generate more trading income, and support your community.

Learn more on 8 April in an online session hosted by @the-sse.org.

More info: www.powertochange.org.uk/event/tradin...

Frank Cottrell-Boyce on how getting kids to read can help fight misinformation “That our children seem to be experiencing some kind of happiness recession at the moment is not surprising,” says Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

Children's Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social speaks of a 'happiness recession' amongst young children. #Reading is part of the answer and #Libraries with their #RhymeTimes are ideally placed to help. They must be sufficiently funded to do so. @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

It's lunchtime, and you could take a walk to your local library.

OR you can read about walking to your local library, and you can do it at your desk, with a sandwich, and it'll only take 3 minutes. Then back to work!

blog.librarydata.uk/walk-to-your...

Meta’s plans to drop fact-checkers will make it harder for charities to campaign, experts warn The move will ‘open the floodgates’ of disinformation and mean it is more difficult for voluntary sector organisations to moderate online content

Meta’s abandonment of independent fact-checkers will make it harder for charities to campaign and “open the floodgates to more disinformation”, digital experts have warned

📢 Round 3 of our #acefunded Microgrants Programme is now OPEN! 📢

It will be open for two weeks, closing at 5:30pm on 17 January 2025. Find out more and apply: www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/mic...

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Libraries Connected Awards winners pose with their trophies.

As thoughts naturally turn towards the holidays, we just want to remind you that the deadline for submitting nominations for our Libraries Connected Awards is 6 January. As ever we want to hear about #Librarians' work that has gone beyond the norm. www.librariesconnected.org.uk/libraries-co...