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| Londoners Still Need to Read |
| 17.07.08 |
The Libraries for Learning project has now produced its final report, Londoners Still Need to Read. This report contains an overview of Skills for life in libraries and museums and MLA London's work to date in the area, highlights the outputs and outcomes of the project, and makes recommendations for taking the successful work of the project forward.
Click here to download the report |
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| Opening Doors: Skilled for Health in Libraries (2007 – 2008) |
| 17.06.08 |
| This short film is about MLA London's Skilled for Health project in public libraries. This unique project, funded by the DH and DIUS, is part of a government and voluntary sector initiative designed to help people improve their health awareness and Skills for Life |
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| Minister for Lifelong Learning celebrates Skilled for Health in London Libraries |
| 03.06.08 |
On Tuesday library users and staff from libraries across London were met by Bill Rammell, Minister for Lifelong Learning at an event in central London to celebrate the Skilled for Health project which has been taking place in five boroughs. |
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| Statement on restructuring |
| 22.05.08 |
At its meeting on Thursday 22 May the Board of MLA London approved the details of the new organisational structure and budget for 2008-9, following a staff consultation on proposed redundancies.
As a result of the reduction in its core grant by 25%, MLA Council, the Government's agency for museums, libraries and archives, is reconfiguring its regional operations outside London. MLA London will be discussing its future governance model with MLA Council in the coming months. |
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| New research looking at food and drink in museums, libraries and archives |
| 01.04.08 |
| New research looking at food and drink in museums, libraries and archives has found that catering facilities can be a valuable asset. The research, conducted by Visit London and commissioned by MLA London, found that venues generally need around 20,000 visits a year to justify extensive catering provision, and that special events are the most profitable form of catering. |
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| Delivering Local Area Agreements - the contribution of cultural activity |
| 19.03.08 |
Local authorities are in the process of negotiating their Local Area Agreements (LAAs). To support the London boroughs, MLA London and Arts Council England, London have produced 'Delivering Local Area Agreements - the contribution of cultural activity'. The document is a written briefing for local authorities seeking to involve culture in their LAAs. It shows how cultural organisations and services can help to deliver on cross-cutting indicators in the National Indicator Set. The document outlines the key cross-cutting indicators that cultural activity can help to deliver and references key evidence demonstrating the impact of cultural activity. It also gives useful examples of projects and organisations that have put this into practice. |
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| Their Past Your Future 2 grant programme |
| 11.03.08 |
| Their Past Your Future 2 (TPYF2) is the second phase of the hugely successful Their Past Your Future Programme. This second phase is focused around an annual grant programme open to all museums, libraries and archives in England. |
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| MLA Board takes radical step to sharpen delivery |
| 20.02.08 |
Plans have been agreed to streamline the MLA's national and regional operations in a major reorganisation intended to lower the Partnership's cost structure and channel more funding to front-line cultural activities.
The MLA Board decided (Tuesday 19 Feb) to scale back funding to the nine separate regional MLAs and work with them to plan for their eventual replacement by a unified structure. By April 2009 smaller regional MLA teams will be better placed to work with other cultural services and a joined-up government presence in the region. The changes pave the way for the outcome of an ongoing regional review chaired by Culture Minister Margaret Hodge. |
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| Helping people get started report |
| 19.02.08 |
| Following on from the MLA London response to the LSEB Draft Strategy consultation, we are pleased to release the Helping people get started report which includes key development opportunities for museums libraries and archives in relation to the skills and employment agenda. |
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| New Culture and Sport Improvement Toolkit for local government |
| 11.02.08 |
IDeA has launched the new Culture and Sport Improvement Toolkit that will form a core part of the new culture services improvement strategy that is to be launched later in March 2008. The toolkit will also be one of the resources that that we will be rolling out as part of our local government improvement services.
For further information on the toolkit see the IDeA website.
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=7921068 |
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