Brixham
Library has won an £8,100 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This is the
second lottery grant the library has received in the last 12 months and it
couldn't have come at a better time because Torbay Council is looking at ways
to save money and the library's future may be in jeopardy.
Friends of
Brixham Library (FOBL) chairman, Jenny Harriman said, "The budget
reductions hanging over us are very worrying." She then explained that
council cutbacks could result in a reduction in library opening hours, or may
see the library being forced to close its doors for good.
"We
hope that our councilors will see that the way forward is by supporting a
community facility in each town, working closely with other organizations and
generating monies along the way", Harriman explained. "This has been
the FOBL aim over recent years and we have shown it can be successful."
The funds
supplied by the Heritage Lottery Fund will be used towards a two-year project
called Brixham and the Great War.
Harriman
says the FOBL has just submitted a third bid for funding to Awards for All in
the hope of securing the money required to purchase new mobile bookcases and open
up the library's ground floor.
The
Heritage Lottery Fund redistributes revenue generated by the UK National
Lottery and uses it to help benefit buildings, parks, places of historical
interest, and other causes that are considered to be of lasting importance to
the British heritage.
