Hollie Thorpe

Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries

Inspire is a Community Benefit Society which delivers a great range of cultural, library and learning services across Nottinghamshire and beyond. We inspire our customers through fantastic opportunities to enjoy our services in these areas: Arts – development of arts opportunities for and with communities, and targeted arts work with young people through County Youth Arts. Learning - providing adult community learning and targeted skills work for young people through Community Learning and Skills service. Nottinghamshire Public Libraries - giving access to a range of reading, information, learning, cultural and heritage resources and services throughout our sixty libraries. Education Library Service (ELS) – providing a specialist library service for schools and nurseries Prison Libraries – running Whatton Prison. Nottinghamshire Music Hub - providing great opportunities for young people to participate in great quality music activities and learning. Instrumental and Music Teaching – providing instrumental and whole class music teaching in schools. Nottinghamshire Archives – acquiring, preserving and providing public access to documents from 1155 to the present day. Records Management Service – provides a corporate service to manage the semi-current paper records of Nottinghamshire County Council.