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    Oct 2023

    Last Updated: 30/10/2023
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    Starbeck library celebrates £6,000 refurbishment of children's area

    by John Plummer

    | 30 Oct, 2023
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    Starbeck Community Library celebrated a £6,000 refurbishment of the children's section on Saturday.

    The building faced closure in 2017 when North Yorkshire County Council withdrew funding from smaller libraries.

    Thanks to the support of volunteers, it has continued to operate but needed to find new revenue streams to upgrade facilities.

    This year the library secured a £6,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund's Awards for All programme. Starbeck Post Office boosted the total by £500.

    The income enabled Starbeck-based Amara Jane Furnishing to refurbish the children's area.

    The refurbished children's area.



    Tina Harper, a volunteer who looks after the children's area, said local people had indicated the "faded and jaded" area was most in need of improvement.

    The funding has paid for a new rug, sofa and shelving and enabled the section to be brightened up.

    Julia Moseley, one of the volunteers that helped save the library when it faced closure, cut a ribbon to mark the refurbishment at Saturday's celebration.

    You can find out more about the library here.



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