Gateway Champions

What does a Champion do?

Want to make a difference? Be a Gateway Champion.

Are you committed to improving library services for visually impaired people?
Can you help make things change and happen ?

Then Gateway NEEDS YOU

What is Gateway ?

Gateway works to improve access to reading and library services for visually impaired people.

What is a Gateway Champion ?

We want each local authority to have a Gateway "Champion" to act as a catalyst for change in their own area to improve library services.

What will the Gateway Champion do?

We will ask the Champion to :

• show a commitment to service improvement with particular reference to the needs of visually impaired people,
• act as a channel of communication between the Gateway project, voluntary sector and library service,
• share best practice and information through the Gateway web side,
• inform and support public library staff by promoting Gateway to them and other organisations as appropriate,
• identify local training needs to support staff in providing services to visually impaired people,
• support the development and implementation of regional workshops.

How much time will it take?

It's hard to say, a lot will depend on how active you are in the role. Most communication will be by email.

How will we help you?

Gateway will help you by providing :

• a telephone and email helpdesk,
• a web site to answer queries about a whole range of library services, reading material and useful technology,
• publicity material,
• regional workshops.

What's in it for you?

This would be a great opportunity to :

• continue your professional development especially if this is an area you are not usually involved in,
• develop new knowledge and skills,
• take advantage to network,
• raise your profile within your organisation.

Who we are looking for?

You do not need to be a librarian or have particular knowledge in working with services for visually impaired people. What we do need you to have is passion and commitment plus a willingness to put improvements into practice.

You do need your line manager to agree that you can take on this role.

To sign up or for more information contact:
Deborah Ryan
0161 355 2082
info@gateway-uk.org

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Who is my Champion?

England
East Midlands
Derby City	Glenys Long
Leicester City
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Derbyshire	Hilary Doherty
Northamptonshire	Dean Brookes
City of Nottingham	Christina Raven-Conn
Nottinghamshire	Andrea Lowe
Rutland	Emily Barwell
East of England
Bedfordshire	Anthea Slark
Cambridgeshire
Essex	Jonathan Wicks
Hertfordshire	Kathy Warden
Luton
Norfolk
Peterborough City
Southend Borough	Greg Simmonds
Suffolk
Thurrock
London
Barking and Dagenham	Gaye Thomas
Barnet
Bexley	Caroline Duckworth
Brent
Bromley	Alex Marin
Camden
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney	Anita Kane
Hammersmith & Fulham
Haringey	Diana Edmonds  Neil Harvey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Islington	Kassa Tsegaye
Kensington & Chelsea
Kingston Upon Thames	Alison Townsend
Lambeth
Lewisham
City of London	Sibhe Lynch
Merton
Newham
Redbridge	Mark Lenihan
Richmond upon Thames	Tony Finerty
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster City
North East
Darlington
Durham	Dorothy Mason
Gateshead	Ann Ruddick  Lynne Corder
Hartlepool	Margaret Dixon
Middlesborough	Jonathan Park
Newcastle upon Tyne City
North Tyneside
Northumberland
Redcar & Cleveland	Carol Bruce
South Tyneside	Jackie Buckley
Stockton-on-Tees	Pam Wilson
City of Sunderland	Jolene Dunbar
North West
Blackburn with Darwen	Margaret Crabtree
Blackpool
Bolton	Matthew Watson
Bury	Anne Elton
Cheshire	Joyce Carrington
Cumbria
Halton	Siobhan Kirk
Knowsley	Evelyn Craig
Lancashire	Andrea Darbyshire
Liverpool
Manchester	Brian Shepherd
Oldham
Rochdale	Margaret Packham
St. Helens	Fay Appleby
Salford City	Teresa Butler
Sefton
Stockport	Wendy Griffiths  Maria Nother
Tameside	Rachel Gee
Trafford	Audrey Smith
Warrington
Wigan	Anne Turner
Wirral	Paul Irons
South East
Bracknell Forest
Brighton & Hove
Buckinghamshire
East Sussex	Julie Button
Hampshire	Nick Coe
Isle of Wight	John English
Kent	Sue Fordham
Medway
Milton Keynes
Oxfordshire
Portsmouth	Annie Aust
Reading	Jacky Matthewson
Slough	Haneeza Nisar
Surrey	Chris Duke
West Berkshire
West Sussex
Windsor & Maidenhead
Wokingham
South West
Bath and North East Somerset	Valerie Bearne
Bournemouth	Vicki Goldie
Bristol City	Chris Brown
Cornwall
Devon	Sheila Ralph
Dorset	Chris Pullen
Gloucestershire	Margaret Sloan
North Somerset
Plymouth	Sue Lancaster
Poole	Janet Westcott
Somerset	Julian Luke
South Gloucestershire	Julie Barker
Southampton	Josie Stradling
Swindon
Torbay
Wiltshire	Jo Barnes
West Midlands
Birmingham
Coventry
Dudley
Herefordshire
Sandwell
Shropshire	Susan White
Solihull	David Viner
Staffordshire
Stoke on Trent	Anne Mackey
Telford & Wrekin
Walsall
Warwickshire	Rob Davies  Janet Everett
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire
Yorkshire & Humberside
Barnsley
Bradford	Mohammed Hafeez
Calderdale Libraries	Roberta Crossley
Doncaster	Marilyn Parkin
East Riding of Yorkshire
Kingston upon Hull	Jessica Leathley
Kirklees	Louise Hazell
Leeds	Ann Day
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire	Ann Rowlands
North Yorkshire	June Scatchard
Rotherham
Sheffield
Wakefield	Lesley Jewell
York	Ann Masters
Northern Ireland
Belfast Education and Libraries Board	Sheena Gamble
North Eastern Education Libraries Board	Julie Russell
South Eastern Education and Libraries Board	Margaret Bell
Southern Education and Libraries Board	Yvonne Griffin
Western Education and Libraries Board	Laura Brown
Scotland
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire	Ruth Greig
Angus
Argyll and Bute	Karen Strutt
Edinburgh City
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee City
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire	Jim Fergusson
East Lothian	Marjory Smith
East Renfrewshire
Falkirk
Fife
Glasgow City
Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian	Philip Wark
Moray
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Orkney
Perth and Kinross
Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling	Liz McPartlin
West Dunbartonshire	Laura Wilson
Western Isles
West Lothian
Wales
Anglesey
Blaenau Ghent
Bridgend
Caerphilly	Jayne Lee
Cardiff
Camarthenshire
Ceredigion
Conwy
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Gwynedd	Alun Hughes
Merthyr Tydfil	Jane Sellwood
Monmouthshire	Vivienne Thomas
Neath Port Talbot	Beverly Symons
Newport
Pembrokeshire
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Leon Hughes  Catherine Langdon
Swansea	Julie Clement
Tofaen
Vale of Glamorgan
Wrexham
University of Wales	Gillian Price

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Gateway leaflet

Leaflets are now available, so go on get in touch and help Gateway to help your staff.
Download the Gateway leaflet as a PDF (54 kb).
Download the Gateway leaflet as an mp3 audio file (650 kb).

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Gateway Briefing presentation

Feel free to use this presentation as a basis for developing briefing sessions for your library service.
To save without looking at the file, right-click on the resource name and choose 'Save Target As..', 'Save Link As...' or 'Download Link to Disk'.
To look at the file before saving it, left-click on the resource name to open it, then choose 'Save As' from the File menu.
Gateway briefing 0107.ppt (510 kb).

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Submit Information

You can send us details of forthcoming events, a service or piece of equipment that you think is really good, or anything you think would be of interest to other librarians looking to improve services to visually impaired and blind people. Please make sure you include all the relevant details - where and when it is, what's it about, any charges, contact details for more information.

Thanks for your contribution.

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Gateway Discussion group

Gateway is pleased to announce that we are working in partnership with The Network. The Network is a network of public libraries, museums, archives, other organisations and individuals committed to tackling social exclusion - (see: www.seapn.org.uk)

It coordinates a number of email lists via JISCMAIL, including one called, not unsurprisingly (!), "The Network", which is the general list for sharing info, asking questions, etc. Strictly speaking, it's open only to Network members and partners, but as we've agreed to work together on this it is open to Gateway Champions.

To join The Network JISCMAIL list (so you can post & receive emails via it), please send an email to John Vincent john@nadder.org.uk asking to join it. Please mention that you would like to join in your capacity as Gateway Champion. To post to The Network JISCMAIL list, just address your email to the-network@jisc.ac.uk

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