Coronavirus has had a huge impact on Chesterfield Sling Library. Our session venues closed, some reopened briefly and then closed again. We risk-assessed, risk-assessed and risk-assessed some more which of our ‘normal’ in-person services we could offer, and concluded that we couldn’t guarantee the safety of our clients, our volunteers or ourselves by providing anything…
Library in-person services remain closed for your and our safety. This includes Library Sessions, Workshops and Consultant Appointments. As a small volunteer-run not-for-profit community project we do not have the resources to offer a safe and consistent in-person service at present. Current loans: we are behind on admin due to our own family commitments and…
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…
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…
In the light of the most recent government advice, that gatherings be restricted to 6 people, Chesterfield Sling Library and Chesterfield Venues (who run Hasland Village Hall) have agreed that the planned session for 18/09/20 should be cancelled. I will be in touch with each of you that had expressed an interest in attending to…
Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months. Admin has been a bit hit and miss, as have responding to messages and following up queries. But all of us who run CSL on a voluntary basis needed some time with our own families. I’m just about to start sending out the renewal/return texts…
It’s been a long time coming, but we hope to run at least one session in September. Things will be very different; we’ll need to be appointment based, we can’t serve refreshments, we can’t get our playmats and toys out… But we can start helping you, the parents and carers of Chesterfield, with your carrying…
Sessions: None yet planned; at this stage none of our venues intend to reopen before September Current Limited Service: Consultant Appointments; see here for details Pre-arranged socially distanced pickups (existing members only) from S41 0HE Pre-arranged socially distanced drop-offs to S41 0HE, S41 7JT or S80 3AJ Postal loans/ returns (existing members only) Loans via…
None of our venues are planning to reopen yet, and even when they do, under current guidance we will not be able to run Library sessions as we have done in the past. However, we are now able to offer Consultant Appointments. See here for details, and email kate@waystocarry.co.uk if you are interested.
June 2020: At present we are still running a very limited service Pre-arranged socially distanced pickups from S41 0HE Pre-arranged socially distanced drop-offs to S41 0HE, S41 7JT or S80 3AJ Postal loans/ returns (existing members only) Loans via our specialist community schemes We ‘normally’ run four or five free-to-attend group sessions a month: On…
