The city council said it had become clear during negotiations that "outsourcing was not the best approach" to protect the libraries in the long term Derby City Council has scrapped plans to hand ...

The organisation that runs Normanton Park Community Centre and the Football Foundation Play Zone is taking over the managing of Derby's ten community libraries. Sporting Communities will create a ...

Derby City Council has scrapped plans to hand over the running of 10 community libraries to an outside group for a second time. The community interest group Sporting Communities had been appointed ...

Derby's community libraries are set to be managed by a multi award-winning social enterprise. Sporting Communities, a community development organisation, will create a Trust to operate the city ...

Derby City Council's new Labour administration has paused plans to offload the running of some libraries to outside organisations. Since March the authority has been considering the future of 10 ...

DERBY >> Derby Neck Library head librarian Ian Parsells is pleased to point out positive changes that have come about in recent months. On Tuesday he gave a visitor a tour of the library ...

Just days after six organisations were chosen to come up with the best ideas for what to do with ten of Derby's council buildings currently used as community libraries, the city council has paused ...