Below are the projects and special events we have planned for the first six months of 2026, as well as the awareness campaigns we’ll be marking. Visit the Event Calendar to find out more about individual events, regular events and everything else we offer.
How Do We Decide On The Programme?
Everything we do in our Libraries and Customer Services align with three frameworks: Libraries for Life, the Council Strategy and the Universal Offers. This includes events, programmes, projects and stock.
Our Libraries for Life priorities are a framework we use when planning our library offers. They are designed to target gaps in our current offer to ensure we are serving the whole community. This year’s priorities are:
- Improve Partner Awareness of our service offer via promotion and relationship building
- Develop Community Outreach through research and fundraising
- Develop a service-wide understanding of EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion)
- Support Literacy in adult non-readers, and in the reading gap between Pupil Premium and non-Pupil Premium children aged 7-11
Council Strategy
- One Purpose: To Improve People’s Lives
- Two Core Policies: Tackling the climate and ecological emergency, Giving people a bigger say
- Three Principles: Prepare for the future, Deliver for local residents, Focus on prevention
- Four Values: Bold, Empowered, Transparent, Supportive.
Universal Offers are set by Libraries Connected and offer are a framework for public libraries to ensure their offers are well balanced and forward-looking, driving innovation and development.
The four offers, from the Libraries Connected website, are:
- Reading
- Information and Digital
- Culture and Creativity
- Health and Wellbeing
Partnering With Us
We work with a wide variety of local and national partners for one-off events and ongoing partnerships. The Partner Events Calendar shows all the events and sessions we currently have planned.
If you’re an organisation looking to partner with us, please contact Library_Events@bathnes.gov.uk.