The Big Society starts here. Right here.
Taking him at his word I thought I’d follow up on In-The-Red-Ken’s promise to try and make it easy for “volunteers to keep services going.” (See below). So today I popped into my local library to see if I could offer a shift or three to keep the good people of Bruton reading books.
It turns out we have something of reprieve: thanks to the intervention of the Bruton Ward Library Trust the library will now stay open every Friday until 31st December. A final decision on its future will follow the submission of the Library Review Report to the county council on October 20th.
In the meantime I intend to formally offer my Big Society services to local Tory councillor Anna Groskop to try and keep our library open. And I’ll be writing to Ken to see if he has any free time to lend a volunteering hand too.
Watch this space.