Participate
Do you want to involve more young people in your library service? Do you want to be recognised within your local authority as one of the key services in delivering young people's positive activities?
Participate will help you deliver on the national Youth Offer and give you a clear direction on your own reading offer to young people across your library service. It will help you demonstrate libraries' key contribution to local authority targets around positive activities, volunteering and work with excluded groups.
Participate offers expert consultancy, seminars and brand new resources based on current government policy and national indicators including:
- service-wide strategic business planning
- identifying new funding streams
- fundamental culture change across your library service
- demonstrating your contribution to key LAA targets
- increasing youth participation
- developing staff skills
- introducing new youth-led services, like HeadSpace and groupthing.org
- exclusive access to online resources.
We are now recruiting for the next Participate programme. If you are interested in being part of the next round please contact Claire Styles.
To find out more download the further information from Resources. There's information for public library authorities and for authorities that are already running HeadSpaces.
Other support for young people
Participate is part of a package of programmes and products that we are offering to support work with young people.
Anyone working with young people (you don't have to be a librarian) can subscribe to our innovative new social reading website groupthing.org. groupthing.org is available to libraries, schools, youth centres and anyone else working with young people.
Libraries that are refurbishing their spaces or building new libraries can get young people involved through HeadSpace. HeadSpace offers exciting opportunities for young people to get involved in designing library spaces and services to create an environment where they can read, listen, surf and chill.
Resources
Reading Agency links
groupthing
HeadSpace
Youth Offer
Download files
Contact
senior project manager, Claire Styles