Newbold Verdon Library had a fantastic day on Friday raising just over £213 for Macmillan Cancer.
The library staff would like to thank the library customers, the local community and local businesses’ for the raffle prize donations. Well done everyone!
Raffle prizes donated by the local community and businesses.
Someone's been busy!
Enjoying the goodies!
Libraries across Leicestershire are adapting to the changing lifestyles of local communities in a bid to help people get fit and healthy.
The way that we live our lives has changed. The amount of physical activity we do has reduced, yet we are eating more and as a consequence are putting on more weight which can pose significant risks to our health.
It is important now more than ever before that people start taking care of their health and fitness.
Leicestershire County Council has introduced a series of initiatives at its libraries to help people get and stay healthy including:
Dr Tim Davies, Deputy Director of Public Health for Leicestershire said: “Our lifestyles are always evolving and this affects and changes our general health and wellbeing. It is important that we all take great care of our health and fitness. The resources available at local libraries are a good step in the right direction to help us achieve this.”
Ashby Library is jointly hosting a special event entitled ‘Happy Hearts Day’ on Thursday 29th September to launch the library’s health and wellbeing collection. The free drop-in event is from 10am-4pm and includes help and support for older people, free health checks from a local pharmacy and the chance to take a leisurely walk around Ashby ending at the library with refreshments. For more information please call the library on: 0116 305 5917 or email: ashbydelazouch@libraryleics.gov.uk The day’s activities have been organised in partnership with Communities in Partnership and North West Leicestershire Elderly Interest Group
For more information about health and wellbeing services available to you at your library look on our website: www.leics.gov.uk/healthandwellbeing call: 0116 305 3565 or visit your local library.
A novelist will give a talk on her successful sleuth series, and a library worker will trim his lengthy locks for charity this month at Market Harborough Library.
Anne Zouroudi, author of the Greek Detective series will be dropping in to the library as part of the County Council’s Words On The Street series, which sees successful writers visiting Leicestershire’s libaries to talk about their work.
Anne’s books centre around a mild-mannered Greek sleuth called Hermes Diaktoros. They include The Messenger of Athens and The Taint of Midas, and she was shortlisted as a breakthrough author for the ITV Crime Thriller Award in 2008.
Her evening talk takes place on Wednesday 20th July between 7pm and 9pm and tickets cost £2. She will be signing copies of her books after the talk. Advance booking is recommended for this event.
Also at the library in July, library worker Stephen Smith, or ‘Ging’ as he is better known due to his amazing long red locks, is having his hair and beard shaved off to raise money for Leicester-based charity The Laura Centre.
Stephen Smith aka 'Ging'
Anyone is welcome to come along on the day to watch and support the event, which takes place on Saturday July 2nd at 10.30am, and donations can be made by visiting Market Harborough Library during normal opening hours.
There will also be the regular free healthy lifestyle check on Friday July 1st between 10.00am until 1.00pm. These checks, which are run by Harborough District Council’s Active Together team include tests on blood pressure, muscle mass and metabolic age. No appointment necessary; just drop in to the library on the day.
And parents and carers should know that as well as the regular Wriggly Readers sessions in libraries around the Harborough area, July also sees the start of the Summer Reading Challenge, the theme of which for this year is Circus Stars.
There will be lots to keep library users of all ages active in mind and body in Oadby & Wigston in April.
Lyrical laughs can be had at Wigston Library on Saturday April 2nd when humorous poetry from Urdu and Hindi cultures, known as Mazahia Shayeri, will be explored for free from 3 – 5pm.
Wigston Library will also host its regular free knitting group at 2pm on Monday April 4th, and its stroll club, which is also free, on Wednesday April 6th at 10.30am. All ages and abilities are welcome to these events, which are as much about socialising as they are about developing skills or keeping healthy.
As part of Listen While You Lunch, Oadby Library will be hosting a visit by local historian Sally Henshaw, who will reveal the life and times of the notorious Nell Gwyn, mistress of King Charles II.
This talk will take place at 12 noon on Thursday 7th April, with tickets costing £2.50, including light refreshments. Pre-booking is required for this event.
Explore Learning creative writing workshops offer schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11 years old the chance to imagine, plan and write their own stories and characters. There will be one hour sessions at Wigston Library on Thursday 21st April at 2pm, and at South Wigston Library on Tuesday 26th April at 2pm.
For even younger bookworms, free Wriggly Reader sessions will take place every Tuesday 10- 10.30am at Wigston Library, every Wednesday 2 – 2.30pm at Oadby Library, and again every Tuesday 10.30 – 11am at South Wigston Library.
Following the success of its Christmas Prize Draw, Loughborough Library has announced a New Year prize draw with a healthy theme for visitors.
When library members take out six books, DVDs or CDs, they are able to enter the prize draw, and if 12, 18 or even 24 items are taken out each visit they can increase their chances of winning.
Last month one lucky winner received a hamper full of seasonal treats after entering via the mobile library, a runner up received a box of crackers and a DVD hire voucher and one of our younger borrowers won the children’s hamper.
The theme for the prize draw is Healthy Resolutions so there will lots of goodies to help improve your health and wellbeing. There will be one main prize of a hamper, with runner up and children’s prizes as well.
Those who are not already members cam simply visit the library with a form of ID, join up and receive a library card straight away. The winning tickets will be drawn on the 28th of February.
For more information please contact Stephanie Strange, Library Development Worker at Loughborough Library on 0116 3052427, or email her at stephanie.strange@leics.gov.uk
People who want to get a little exercise but don’t like the thought of joining a gym might consider taking part in regular exercise sessions at Loughborough Library.
Running every Tuesday until the end of the year, these focused seated exercises suit all ages, but are particularly effective for the over 60s and people with limited mobility. Qualified fitness instructor Suki Garcha will lead the classes through all the moves.
The weekly classes will be held every Tuesday morning between 10am and 11am in Loughborough Library until 28th December.
There will be a weekly charge of £2 payable on arrival. Sessions can be booked by calling on 01509 212985 or 01509 266436
For more information contact the Active Together Active Team on 01509 632534, or for more details of library events in Leicestershire please visit www.leics.co.uk/events
Children and adults will be shown that fruit can be fun in several healthy eating sessions at Leicestershire County Council’s libraries this week.
There will be the opportunity to taste different fruit as well as hear stories, make crafts and engage in activities all with a fruit theme as part of Leicester and Leicestershire’s Food Fortnight.
There will be an hour-long event at Blaby Library Tuesday 28th September at 4pm, with two half-hour events on Saturday 2nd October at Braunstone Town Library at 10am and at Enderby Library at 11.30am.
All events are free, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Contact details for the libraries are listed below.
Leicestershire County Council’s Loughborough Library is launching its new Health and Wellbeing section with a celebration day packed with free activities on Friday 24th September 2010.
There will be health checks in the morning and a yoga session at lunch time (this needs to be pre-booked). In the afternoon there will be a series of half hour talks by local holistic therapy centre Gaia Holistics. The talks will be about homeopathy, back pain and arthritis and massage.
In addition to these free activities there will be hand and neck massage in the library and lots of stalls from charities, health groups and related organisations providing information and guidance throughout the day.
For the littlest members of the library, there will be a special healthy eating themed wriggly readers at 11am for under 5’s and their grown-ups.
People are encouraged to come along to Loughborough Library on Granby Street and take advantage of the many free activities and information on offer. For more details please call 0116 305 2420 .
Hinckley Library is promoting Health and Wellbeing on Thursday, September 30th 2010.
The event will run from 10:30am to 3:30pm and will have plenty for people to get involved in, including:
Customers will also have the opportunity to find out about the enhanced Health and Wellbeing collection, and get details about on-line health information, local support groups and healthy eating. There will also be the chance to win a prize.
All activities are free and open to everyone. For further information, please contact the Library, which is based in Lancaster Road, on 0116 305 2501.
