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…
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…
So clumsy Kate has made a proper job of breaking her leg. Apologies for the cancellation of last Friday’s Holme Hall session. I’m now out of hospital but will be off my feet for a couple of months. Meeting with AJ and Erika tonight to work our what we’ll be doing to keep ‘my’ sessions…
Every helper at every CSL session is there as a volunteer. Consultants, peer-supporters (aka Demonstrating volunteers), helpers, none of us are paid for our time. We do it because, hand on heart, we love sharing our experience and knowledge with each and every parent/carer who walks through the door and helping to make their journey…
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…
The year’s got off to a cracking start with lovely sessions at Mamaccino and Bolsover, next up Hasland on the 17th, then the Saturday session on the 25th. Plus I’ve done quite a lot of shopping; a gorgeous new Sleepy Nico (lasted less than a day before Erika got her paws on it), lots of…
We have had to cancel both the last session of December (Friday 20th) and the first session of January (Friday 3rd) as neither of our venues were available. We considered alternative venues, but then thought about our lovely team of volunteers who give their time so generously to bring you Chesterfield Sling Library sessions. And…
A full day training for some of the peer supporters, both old and new.
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