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SAVE RATBY LIBRARY
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SAVE RATBY LIBRARY
Ratby Community Library needs help fundraising to renovate and rejuvenate their space, creating opportunities and fundamentally keep it running for future generations.
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This project is preparing for fundraising. Click Like to show your support, or Follow for updates on this project's journey.
Ratby Community Library is a charity, volunteer-run library, cafe and community hub. We are completely self sustained, with our biggest income being the cafe. We have different support groups through the week ranging from a craft evening and bingo nights to 0-5 year old baby and parent groups. We need your help to keep the library and community hub going!
What we'll deliver:
- Improve the café services
- Renovate the outdoor space
- Create better opportunities for the community
- Continue serving Ratby and the surrounding villages
Why it's a great idea:
We are the heart of the village, creating a safe space for all ages. We benefit the entire community. If we don’t fundraise enough money to keep ourselves going, this space will be lost.
Steps to get it done:
- Raise enough money to keep the library open into 2023!
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Journey
How will the money be spent?Total £9,231
Costs Breakdown
This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. Before entering fundraising these costs will be confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified by the verifier.
50% Cushion
£8,500
Overfunding
This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:
- Contingency for the project to protect against inflation and reduced football due to cost-of-living increases.
Total £9,231
Our Volunteer List
We're currently looking for people to offer skills and time to develop our project! Check out the list of what we need below and then use the 'Volunteer' button to the right to get involved.
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VolunteerAbout the Project Creator
Ratby Library needs your help. After funding cuts and the pandemic, we are playing financial catch-up and need urgent funds to stay open and serve our community. There are several exciting projects in the pipeline, but none of them will be possible if we cannot continue operating.
Ratby Library & Community Group is a local hub for local families. When the Government imposed funding cuts on the Leicestershire County Council, we were determined to continue running through the income earned from our cafe. Now, after two years of lockdowns, we need your help.
We offer several exciting and essential services to our community. These include Wriggly Readers, where young people come to read and socialise, the Ratby Craft Club, a mindful-based craft club and Bingo every fortnight, on top of book loans and our cafe.
Ratby Library is owned by the Ratby Library & Community Group, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered with the Charity Commission (Reg. No. 1164252) and we aim to ensure it remains community managed and operated.
Project Owner: Ratby Library The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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