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Cheshire East libraries including Nantwich are to benefit from a government grant of £10,000 to help combat social isolation among the area’s readers.

The Reading Friends project is a national scheme, overseen by the Department for Media, Culture and Sport and run by the Reading Agency.

All the council’s libraries are engaged with the project.

Library staff will be on hand to contact anyone requesting a weekly call to discuss their favourite authors and books, something they’ve heard on the radio or read in a newspaper.

The scheme is free to all residents and there is no need for people to be a library member.

Residents just need to call or email their local library to arrange a time when they can discuss their area of interest with a librarian.

Cllr Mick Warren, Cheshire East Council cabinet member for communities, said: “This is excellent news for residents.

“While we are delighted to see that there is a roadmap now to take us out of lockdown, it will be a while yet until libraries can open once again to the public.

“Initiatives like the Reading Friends project are perfect for people, who not only might be lonely, but who perhaps also love the joy of sharing their reading experiences with others.

“The first thing that so many of us want to do after reading something is to tell people about it.

“This project enables that in a very simple, straightforward way.”

Cheshire East Council’s library service has been adapting to the restrictions of the pandemic, since the first lockdown came into effect last March.

The council’s popular order and collect service is also providing a valuable outlet to many residents and the Reading Friends project is another scheme, which addresses loneliness and social isolation.

Anyone signing up to the Reading Friends project before the end of March will also receive a free book and reading journal.

For more information about the Reading Friends project and other schemes that the council’s library service offers, visit: www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/libraries

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