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Hiring the Library Spaces

by | 3 Aug 2020 | building works

We hope you’re having a good summer and enjoying the weather, and particularly the park – how lucky we are to have Gladstone Park to escape to.

Despite all that, we’ve got our Back to School hats on and are thinking about the opening of the library, which, despite nasty Covid-19, draws ever nearer. We’re aiming for September. With that in mind, we’d like to update you on our plans.

The three library spaces (main library space, activity room and meeting room) will all eventually be available for hire, but we’ll be starting with the activity room at the back of the building.

We are working on our health and safety policy which will outline the measures we will take to ensure that staff, volunteers, facilitators and users are safe. This will include cleaning between activities, providing handwashing stations and hand sanitisers, use of PPE and social distancing.  We will also be following Brent Libraries’ guidelines on track and trace.


We’d like to hear from you if you have any ideas about using the space for a limited number of people for your activities. You may also want to offer activities via Zoom or even a combination, for example, recording your activity as it takes place. We can support you with using Zoom if you’re not already familiar with it.


The rate will depend on which space you would like to use and the number of participants you expect to have. Please contact Annie if you would like to discuss this. We look forward to hearing from you.

Beat the Social Distancing Blues

by | 19 Mar 2020 | latest

It’s early days for us here so far in terms of social distancing and enforced stays at home. Why not take advantage of these museums’ offers of free access to their collections while the crisis is upon us?

  1. Pinacoteca di Brera – Milano https://pinacotecabrera.org/
  2. Galleria degli Uffizi – Firenze https://www.uffizi.it/mostre-virtuali
  3. Musei Vaticani – Roma http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/it/collezioni/catalogo-online.html
  4. Museo Archeologico – Athens https://www.namuseum.gr/en/collections/
  5. Prado – Madrid https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-works
  6. Louvre – Paris https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
  7. British Museum – London https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
  8. Metropolitan Museum – New York https://artsandculture.google.com/explore
  9. Hermitage – St Petersburg https://bit.ly/3cJHdnj
  10. National Gallery of art – Washington https://www.nga.gov/index.html

Donate

by | 9 Feb 2020 | latest

We are still taking donations. We are not going to be funded long term by any body, public or otherwise (including the Council). We hope to be self-sufficient, and to earn the money we need to stay open by hiring out our spaces. But we will also be dependent on the generosity and support of our community, which is why we will never stop taking donations.

See ways to donate here.

Volunteer

by | 9 Feb 2020 | latest

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