Get involved with the Great Big Green Week at your local library
Libraries across west Cheshire will be celebrating The Great Big Green Week (10 – 18 June) by holding a special Treasure Hunt for children with green tips scattered around the library shelves.
The Great Big Green Week is a nationwide campaign highlighting the need for urgent action on climate and nature. Thousands of people around the country take part in the campaign each year, showcasing actions to tackle climate change, creating a better world, for us now and for the next generation.
As part of the library service’s week of events, adults and children will be asked to write “Letters to Tomorrow”, explaining their hopes for future generations and fears about what life could be like if we don’t slow down climate change. These can be addressed to anyone in the future - family, friends, your future self or even animals, such as descendants of their garden blackbirds. The letters will be put on display, along with environmentally themed books in the libraries.
Residents are also invited to join the library if they have not done so already and to use the library more if they have throughout the campaign week.
Environmental groups will be running information sessions and events, such as energy advice drop in sessions, in some of the libraries throughout the week. Details of all the activities taking place during the week at local libraries is available to view on the west Cheshire Libraries events webpage.
Storyhouse in Chester also have several events taking place on Saturday, 10 June to celebrate Great Big Green Week. Join them for a range of free events (including a paper recycling workshop, a treasure hunt, and colouring-in sheets) from 1pm. More details can be found on the below links.
🌳 The Great Big Green Week Activities
🌳 Paper Recycling Workshop
Public libraries are hubs of sustainability, helping to reduce consumption by reusing and recycling books and other resources as well as providing information to communities to enable their own climate action. The average book is borrowed over 20 times in a public library, as opposed to a private bought book being read just once (or even less in some cases). At the end of their lives, library books are then sold on or recycled. Cheshire West Libraries is also due to have the first electrically powered mobile library in the UK in operation later this year.
