Ten ‘enterprising libraries’ will receive a share of £450,000 to help local people get
started in business, the Department for Communities and Local Government and Arts
Council England announced.
It is part of wider action to support local economic growth, Enterprising Libraries turn library spaces into incubators for business ideas by provide coaching, advice, meeting spaces, and IT support to people interested in developing a proposal and taking it to the market. The projects are focused on fostering entrepreneurship by supporting budding business minds in the local
community who are interested in becoming self-employed. The funding being
announced will help more people access the same kind of services across the
country. The Arts Council’s recent research programme, Envisioning the Library of
the Future highlighted the potential of libraries to be catalysts of local economic growth and enterprise.
Read the DCLG and the Art Council England article here.
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