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Sue Williamson Head of Library Services. St Helens Borough Council

This program promotes health, culture, and education initiatives, targeting health inequalities, low digital literacy, and poor educational attainment in St. Helens. By combining library services, arts, and community learning, St. Helens Borough Council aims to improve public well-being through various cultural activities. The program has shown success in engaging the community, with outcomes such as increased well-being and social inclusion. The initiative includes partnerships with regional organizations, leading to a more vibrant and connected community. Through libraries, arts, and culture, St. Helens creates a welcoming and enriching environment for all residents.

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Sue Williamson Head of Library Services. St Helens Borough Council

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  1. Sue WilliamsonHead of Library Services.St Helens Borough Council

  2. St Helens as a Place • Rugby League • Glass, Pharmaceuticals, Mining • Health Inequalities • Poor Educational attainment • Low Digital Literacy • Low Engagement with Arts and Culture

  3. Overview • Aims of the Council • 5 SCL Universal Offers • Libraries TaskForce 7 Outcomes • Addition of a 6th: Culture • 5 Ways to Well-being

  4. 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

  5. Recent Changes

  6. BLUSH

  7. BASH

  8. 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

  9. Development of Regional Partnerships • NW Consortium • Time to Read • Development of the Liverpool City Region

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Cultural Hubs and Public Health: • Expanded and Grown • Arts on Prescription programme • Commissioned and funded by Public Health • Exceeded expectations, 2nd programme commissioned

  15. 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%

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Why Libraries? • Specialist Libraries • Fake news or Everyone a Google Expert!! • Public Libraries • Framework on offer today • Universality.

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