Libraries are already a great model of the sharing economy – one Burnage resident can access one of hundreds and thousands of books, delivered to their community library, all for free. They’re a great place for groups to meet up, information to be shared, and new ideas to grow, At […]
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Freelance Heritage Lottery Project Officer – Burnage: A Place Called Home Friends of Burnage Library are seeking a Freelance Project Officer to support the delivery of their Heritage Lottery Funded project exploring the development of Manchester Corporation’s Housing estates in Burnage in the 1920’s and 30’s. The project officer will […]
Heritage Lottery Project Officer: Freelance Opportunity
Freelance Session Leader opportunity: Age Friendly Burnage – Burnage History Champions Group. Friends of Burnage Library (FoBL) are looking for a sessional leader to deliver 36 weekly Local History sessions within Burnage Library, Activity & Information Hub, supporting our Burnage History Champions group to develop their skills, confidence and knowledge […]
Freelance Local History Session Leader Opportunity
“On May 3rd about 20 of us enjoyed a lovely morning at the Whitworth. We looked at the Beyond Borders Exhibition- beautiful textiles old and new from India , Pakistan and Bangladesh; we wandered in the beautiful main hall looking out over the park , taking lots of photographs . […]
Beyond Borders – our Talk English group visit the Whitworth ...
It was a pleasure to welcome back Tony Longshaw, with his talk last time on the rivers and streams of south Manchester living long in the memory. Today’s topic was a virtual tour of Manchester’s blue plaques, illustrated by photographs taken by his son thirty years ago (themselves now an […]
Tony Longshaw at Burnage Library – Talk on the Blue ...
You might have never noticed the steel shutter on the front of Burnage Library before but there’s no way you’re going to now. Burnage has a brand new artwork – a beautiful design by artist Nick Hamilton which celebrates our Community Powered Library and the richness of the imagination the […]
There’s Art at the Heart of Burnage
One rainy Friday, yesterday in fact, a group of volunteers gathered together at the Library to make radio magic. In a stimulating, educational, cheeky, and really enjoyable day, Phil, Calum and Annie from All FM (96.9) patiently taught us all about the various elements required to make good radio; they […]
Burnage Library Volunteers and the art of radio broadcasting with ...
Tom Reidy writes: If you are interested in Computer Science/ICT, We at Burnage Library, Burnage, Manchester, are still running our successful Code Club for nine to eleven years old. Our Code Club is now in its third year, and we cover programming (Scratch & Python), basic web design, algorithms, and […]