Resource Library

 

 

Welcome to the HeadSpace Resource Library

Here you'll find practical resources and tools to help you improve your work with young people and support you to deliver your HeadSpace project. In future, some sections of these resources will only be accessible to partners of the Big Lottery funded HeadSpace programme.

This resource library will grow over time. Please let us know about any resources which may be useful to share on these pages.

National tools for working with young people

Hear By Right Mapping and Planning tool  (Word, 396kb)

Assess and improve your practice and policy on the active involvement of children and young people

Values of youth work (Word, 288kb)

Think about how they apply to your work with young people

National Youth Libraries Board Library Offer (pdf, 31kb)

Find out what young people should expect from their library services

Young people designing and shaping library spaces

Dudley Graffiti Project (Word, 51.1kb)

Young people designing the outside of their library at Dudley Wood

Shaping library spaces (Word, 77.6kb)

Involving young people in planning and designing library spaces

Young people planning and running library activities

aSPARations cafe, Lyme Regis (Word, 51.3kb)

A library linked cafe and youth centre

Book prize judges (Word, 61kb)

Young people join the judging panel of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2006

Making websites (Word, 52.5kb)

A case study from Derbyshire

Newham - Peer Motivators (Word, 57.2kb)

Young people acting as advocates, reading promoters, marketing executives and youth workers, within the library context.

Newham - The Gate (Word, 51.5kb)

Special library evening sessions organised by Peer Motivators

Reading groups:1 (Word, 66.9kb)

A case study from Bedfordshire

Reading groups:2 (Word, 51.9kb)

Case study from Sedgefield

Reading promoters (Word, 61.6kb)

A case study featuring the Book Pushers in Derbyshire

Using music to involve young people (Word, 65.2kb)

Case studies from Leeds and Suffolk

Young adult sessions at Beaminster Library (Word, 40.4kb)

A case study from Beaminster in Dorset

Young people selecting stock

Involving young people in stock selection (word, 78.9kb)

Guidance and key points for involving young people in stock selection

Book shopping in Sheffield (Word, 40.2kb)

A case study about involving young people at a Sheffield youth centre in library stock selection

Stock selection in Birmingham (Word, 66kb)

Young people purchasing books for local libraries

Stock selection in Cambridgeshire (Word, 52.4kb)

A case study: young people choosing and buying library stock