Session day change

With Chesterfield now being at Tier 2 COVID alert, as a small volunteer-run project we have taken the difficult decision that we must now stop running the Consultant Appointments as well as the Library Sessions. We are not set up to provide you with the level of protection that we feel we have a duty…

Our next Library session will be on Friday 5th November from 10:00 – 12:00 at Hasland Village Hall. Our session management procedures are flexible depending on current COVID guidance.  For this session we will be running similarly to the last two sessions: Attendance MUST be pre-booked (unless you are just returning (for this there there…

This is a tough one to write… Currently, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to say when we will next be able to schedule any form of Library session. Putting aside criteria and exemptions, it just wouldn’t be ethical for us to invite either our volunteers or the vulnerable parents and children of Chesterfield…

While I am off my feet the rest of the Library volunteers are working their socks off to make the sessions happen at all. Please bear with them if sessions are short-staffed or have to be cancelled at short notice, or if response to messages is a little slower than usual. Appreciate all the hard…

The situation is changing daily, and we will update this statement accordingly. While our venues remain open, if the Session Consultant (AJ/Erika/Kate) is happy to run a session it will go ahead. If a session is cancelled we will notify via our FB page and this website. No other volunteers are expected to attend, it’s…

At our Hasland session last week one of the volunteers was asked if we accept donations. The lady asking was a parent who had brought along her own carrier for some advice about how to use it, and who felt that the help she’d been given was worth something. We will always help people to…