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February 5, 2008
East Finchley
Hello Perkins,
I just found your lovely blog. Leslie Gilbert, Adam Gee and I run a support group for our local library in East Finchley. We have about 200 members and we miraculously managed to persuade our council to put in a bid to the Big Lottery Fund. Quite an investment of time (for us) and money (for the council - proper architectural drawings & so on). We cooked up a plan for a Dyslexia Centre to go in the upstairs meeting room of our beautiful Grade II listed branch (which would have necessitated a lift of course to comply with the DDA).
Sadly we heard in September that we were unsuccessful (sniff). Probably you already know this, but we were told that 130 local authorities put in bids which totalled £180 million pounds. So well oversubscribed on the £80m on offer despite the really very onerous nature of the application process. I think this speaks of the desperation of Local Authorities and library services across the country.
Posted by Perkins at February 5, 2008 7:28 AM