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LEARN WITH YOUR LIBRARY

Specialist resources to support job seeking and training and learning opportunities.

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Aura’s libraries have a wide range of specialist resources to support job seeking and to identify training and learning opportunities.

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Information about training and learning opportunities

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Regular employability events and opportunities with our Step-Up Your Skills engagement programme

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Local and national newspapers

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Computers with free internet access in all libraries to search for job vacancies, produce a CV and apply for jobs online

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Volunteering opportunities

Ask at your local library for more information.

Aura’s libraries have a wide range of specialist resources to support job seeking and identifying training and learning opportunities:

Information about training and learning opportunities
Regular employability events and opportunities with our Step-Up Your Skills engagement programme
Local and national newspapers
Computers with free internet access in all libraries to search for job vacancies, produce a CV and apply for jobs online
Volunteering (hyperlink to Volunteering web page) opportunities

Ask at your local library for more information.

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INFORMATION SESSIONS

Aura co-ordinates the Step-Up Your Skills programme. You will find regular events and workshops to support job seeking, including annual jobs and skills fairs, in our libraries and leisure centres.

EMPLOYABILITY

Aura is one of the lead providers in the North East Wales Adult Community Learning (ACL) Partnership.

Working with our partners, we are able to provide pathways and support to enable people to gain employment.

Aura provides a variety of free courses to develop employability and to learn new skills.

We offer a wide range of accredited and non-accredited provision across the county via our community buildings, outdoor spaces and online.

Fully funded by the Adult Community Learning grant, courses are available to anyone aged 19 years and above who would like to learn a new skill, gain a qualification or improve their physical and mental well-being.

For further information and to find out what is available, please visit North East Wales ACL (Facebook page) or email acl@aura.wales

Alternatively, contact your local Aura library.

Our partners include:

Coleg Cambria
Communities for Work
Deeside Community Trust
Department for Work and Pensions and Job Centre Plus
Groundwork North Wales
Theatr Clwyd
The Denbigh Workshop
The Little Learning Company

FURTHER HELP

View the latest job vacancies and volunteering opportunities with Aura Leisure and Libraries at Careers and Volunteering.

View the latest job vacancies and career opportunities with our partner, Flintshire County Council.

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS

The Department for Work and Pensions is the largest government department in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for welfare and pension policy.

The department has four operational organisations:

Jobcentre Plus administers working age benefits such as Jobseeker’s Allowance, and decides which claimants receive Employment and Support Allowance;
The Pension Service which pays the Basic State Pension and Pension Credit and provides information on related issues;
Disability and Carers Service which provides financial support to disabled people and their carers; and
Child Maintenance Group which provides the statutory Child Support Schemes, operating as the Child Support Agency and the Child Maintenance Service.

CAREERS WALES

Careers Wales provides independent and impartial careers information, advice and guidance for all ages.

CIVVY STREET

Civvy Street is The Royal British Legion’s employment support service and helps serving and ex-serving personnel and their families prepare for employment as they transition into civilian life.

GET ONLINE WITH AURA

There are lots of benefits to getting online including:

Keeping in touch with family and friends
Managing your money
Searching for jobs
Applying for Universal Credit and other benefits
Learning more about the things that interest you
Accessing free digital books, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers

If you, or someone you know, would like help to get online, or just need a little extra support to use the internet or email, free basic support is available in all our libraries.

You do not need to have your own computer or laptop at home. As a library member, you can use one that is provided free of charge in the library.

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IT COURSES AND HELP

Learn My Way provides free self-help online courses on the following subjects (also available in Welsh):

Using your computer or device
Finding a job online
Online basics
Improving your health online
More internet skills
Managing your money online
Online safety
Public services online

ONLINE HELP

Need help getting online? Have no idea how to even use a mouse or a keyboard?

All of our libraries provide free, friendly group sessions which follow the 6-week Learn My Way online basics course. Though free, booking is essential. Contact your local library for more details.

DIGITAL BUDDY

Need help to use a computer, tablet or phone to get online?

Most of our libraries have regular sessions where you can make an appointment with a Digital Buddy who can offer free one-to-one support.

FAMILY HISTORY HELP

Need help tracing your family tree?

Our libraries offer regular drop-in sessions to help you discover more about your family history. We will provide you with useful tools and and assistance to discover more about your past. Free library editions of Ancestry UK and Find My Past are available to use in the library. Contact your local branch for more details.

LEARN WELSH

Aura is committed to protecting and promoting the Welsh culture and language. We encourage communities to engage by providing:

Core Welsh language books and audio collections in all libraries (sourced from local suppliers)
Regular Welsh language events and activities
Welsh language local and national newspapers and periodicals available at all library branches
Welsh language online resources
Opportunities to practice and learn Welsh language skills
Commitment to the Welsh Public Library Standards to provide, develop and improve bilingual services and information, ensuring the Welsh Language is not treated any less favourably than the English language

WELSH LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

Our Welsh conversation groups will be returning soon to Buckley, Flint, Holywell and Mold Libraries.

In the meantime, why not join one of our Ffrindiau Darllen (Welsh Language Reading Friends ) online sessions via Zoom.

For more information, please email lynn.walker@aura.wales

Join our friends from Cymraeg i Blant for Welsh stories and rhymes. Aimed at babies aged 0-2 years, these sessions are suitable for new Welsh speakers, non-Welsh speaking parents and fluent speakers alike.

Visit Cymraeg i Blant Sir y Fflint (Facebook page).

For further information on activities and support for learning Welsh with your child visit Mudiad Meithrin

WELSH LANGUAGE DIGITAL RESOURCES

Welsh Libraries is a one-stop portal where you can find out what’s happening in libraries, search for books, browse a wide range of online resources, join online, locate your nearest library, ask tricky questions, and lots more.

The Welsh Libraries website is funded by Welsh Government in support of libraries.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES

The National Library of Wales has a vast and fascinating array of online digital resources that are available free of charge to all, and include:

Places of Wales – search and browse over 300,000 entries from the Tithe maps of Wales and accompanying apportionment documents using original and present-day maps
Welsh Journals – access to scholarly titles from Wales ranging from academic publications to popular magazines
Welsh Newspapers – search and read the collection online, and discover 15 million articles and 1.1 million pages
Dictionary of Welsh Biography – over 5,000 biographies of Welsh people who made an important contribution to life in Wales and beyond
Cymru 1914 – a digital collection revealing the often hidden history of the First World War bringing fragmented primary sources together in a digital archive
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DICTIONARIES

Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru is the only standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language. It presents the vocabulary of the Welsh language from the earliest Old Welsh texts, through the abundant literature of the Medieval and Modern periods, to the huge expansion in vocabulary resulting from the wider use of Welsh in all aspects of life in the last half century.

In 2007, the Welsh Language Board obtained a licence to publish the Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary Online. This important resource is now easily accessible to people who speak, read and write Welsh on a daily basis and shows the richness of the language to those who are learning it.

FURTHER HELP

A partnership between Coleg Cambria and Popeth Cymraeg delivers Welsh courses in Flintshire on behalf of the National Centre for Learning Welsh. Visit Learn Welsh for more information.

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