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Ryton Community Library

Community Development

We hope to develop and enhance the room at present serving as the library for Ryton and develop community space for residents of Ryton.

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About this cause

The organisation sets out to maintain, operate and develop library facilities for the residents and where possible develop and provide community resources for the residents of Ryton. The present facilities are open to all but the major proportion of our present demographic are parents and young children and the mature population of Ryton. We have worked hard to develop opportunities but the facilities in which we work are small and can lead to overcrowding and a restriction on both the type and numbers of the opportunities that we seek to offer.

How this cause brings people in the community together

The present library operates from a small room that the volunteers helped refurbish and totally manage, maintain and offer library facilities for six days a week We also organise, staff and operate Rhymetime a Reading Group, and the local Credit Union.. The intention is obviously to offer an enhanced service to our present clientele, (potentially the residents of Ryton, and develop, by booking larger spaces within the building, opportunities to attract more members of those areas of the demographic that at present are under represented. At present we have 28 active volunteers who will involve themselves both in the development work and in operating activities.