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Call for funds to save 'vital' local libraries
Somerset Guardian
|November 13, 2025
A group of councillors is calling on Bath & North East Somerset Council to do more to support and financially aid the local authority’s 11 community libraries.
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The Independents for B&NES group says the 11 libraries across the district provide lifelines to many people who live in rural and isolated communities. They say they do not have any financial support from the council's library budget and are entirely run by volunteers.
At the B&NES full council meeting at Bath’s Guildhall next Thursday (November 20), the Independents for B&NES will call for each library to be allocated a £6,000 annual grant.
This story is from the November 13, 2025 edition of Somerset Guardian.
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