Library Services Coffee Morning @ St John's

Redbridge Library Services held a Coffee Morning this morning, Wednesday 10th December, from 11.00am - 1.00pm, at the Parish Centre of St. John's Seven Kings. The event promoted existing library services in the area (such as the Mobile Library) and the services nearby in Ilford, Goodmayes and the Keith Axon Centre. There was also information regarding forthcoming regular library outreach services in Seven Kings.

The event was attended by local people from TASK, Seven Kings & Newbury Park Resident's Association, St John's Church, Downshall Primary School, Downshall Pre-School Playgroup and Downshall Pre-School Parents & Toddlers group, among others. Information was provided about current Library services, new Library users were registered and local people shared their thoughts on the type of outreach activities they would like to see in Seven Kings.

A group of children from Downshall Primary School attended and shared their ideas for Library Services in the area, having discussed these in school before coming to the event.

This was a very worthwhile event with good numbers attending. The event demonstrated that there is definitely interest from a cross-section of the local community in outreach events such as further Coffee mornings, Reading groups, Storytelling sessions and Poetry/Author events.

St John's was very pleased to have hosted this Coffee Morning in partnership with Redbridge Library Services. St John's Parish Centre is a well used community resource and is therefore an ideal location for community outreach events, such as this Coffee Morning. Through our involvement with TASK we are seeking to see and support the development of new and improved community facilities in Seven Kings. We view this partnership with Redbridge Library Services as a positive new development and look forward to further opportunities to work together.

Additional good news from TASK's ongoing discussions with Redbridge Library Services are that the mobile library attended the Christmas Bazaar at St John's Seven Kings and saw a good number of visitors and new library users. Additionally, the mobile library has agreed to begin visiting Downshall Primary School from late January 2009.

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