Cultural Awareness
The Library Cultural Awareness Officer is responsible for promoting, improving and recommending changes to Library and Information Services to ensure that they meet the needs of all the members of minority ethnic communities.
Public information documents are made available and accessible to members of minority ethnic communities and consultation with both individuals and groups within minority ethnic communities is regularly carried out.
Contact: 01709 815123
Cultural Outreach
This service provides help and information an a variety of local courses for ethnic minorities and refugees, and an introduction to library services.
The cultural outreach worker can be contacted by phone or at the Eastwood Mission Church drop in sessions, these are for asylum seekers and refugees offering help and advice on a variety of topics.
Meetings held
Tuesday's 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Eastwood Mission Church
St Ann's Road
Rotherham
The following groups meet at the Central Library
ESOL classes for learning basic English
Every Tuesday 1pm - 3pm
Open to all
UDRU newspaper reading group
Every Wednesday 10am - 11am
Open to all
For any more information on cultural outreach contact:
Alnaar Clayton
Cultural Outreach Worker
Telephone: 01709 815123
Mobile: 0771 773255
alnaar.clayton@rotherham.gov.uk
Home Library Service for Ethnic Minority Communities
More information on the Home Library Service for Ethnic Minority Communities
Home from Home
The Home from Home project has been running at the Central Library for several years and has adopted varying formats. It was initially only open to refugees and asylum seekers but is now open to anybody whose first language is not English.
More information on Home from Home
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