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Sue Williamson Head of Library Services. St Helens Borough Council. St Helens as a Place. Rugby League Glass, Pharmaceuticals, Mining Health Inequalities Poor Educational attainment Low Digital Literacy Low Engagement with Arts and Culture. Overview. Aims of the Council
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Sue WilliamsonHead of Library Services.St Helens Borough Council
St Helens as a Place • Rugby League • Glass, Pharmaceuticals, Mining • Health Inequalities • Poor Educational attainment • Low Digital Literacy • Low Engagement with Arts and Culture
Overview • Aims of the Council • 5 SCL Universal Offers • Libraries TaskForce 7 Outcomes • Addition of a 6th: Culture • 5 Ways to Well-being
Current Organisational Structure in St Helens • Library Services = Libraries, Arts and Culture and Adult and Community Learning • Part of the department of Public Health and Well-Being • In the People’s Directorate, includes Adult Social Care and Health and Children’s Social Care and Health
Also In St Helens • Bookstart: Bath, Brush,Book, Bed • Autism and Asperger agenda • Perinatal Mums • Dementia • Light exercise programmes with Healthy Living • Emotionally Healthy Schools • Calendar Spikes • 5 Ways to Well-Being
Development of Regional Partnerships • NW Consortium • Time to Read • Development of the Liverpool City Region
The Road to Cultural Hubs • 2010: Grant from ACE to deliver an action research programme • Role of Arts for socially excluded and • Potential impact on personalised budgets
Role of Commissions • Other Ways of Telling: Arts and Mental Health • Other Ways of Seeing: Arts and Physical and Sensory Disabilities • Other Ways of Being: Arts in supporting recovery from Alcohol Abuse and in raising awareness
Cultural Hubs:The Jewel in the Crown • Audience established • Major target group: ASCH users • ACE: Grants for the Arts in Libraries fund • 5th year; 3 successful applications
Cultural Hubs 2 • Delivered a range of arts performances in Libraries • Supported artists • 2 Arts in Libraries Conferences • Spoken at other conferences • Case Study for Ambition • Shortlisted for CILIP award 2015 • Won National Lottery Award 2016 • Applied for NPO status for our library service (and were successful) • Key shaper of new SCL Cultural offer
Cultural Hubs and Public Health: • Expanded and Grown • Arts on Prescription programme • Commissioned and funded by Public Health • Exceeded expectations, 2nd programme commissioned
Cultural Hubs 3 • Aims and Objectives • Why Libraries? • 44% Facebook Friends • 44% Cultural Hubs audience from that cohort • 37% from lowest SOAs in the Borough • National expected maximum: 20%
What next? • Potential of Libraries • Cradle to Grave Service • 1 in 2 people regularly visit a library • 224.6 million visits • Saves NHS 27.5 million per annum
And in St Helens • We have13 Libraries in St Helens • 96% of people in the Borough currently live within 2 miles of a library • In 2016/17, 685,514 people visited our libraries • That’s 13,183 per week • Or 2,197 per DAY • 120,000 used our computers • Over 45,000 came to our events
Why Libraries? • Specialist Libraries • Fake news or Everyone a Google Expert!! • Public Libraries • Framework on offer today • Universality.