Aura’s libraries have a wide range of specialist resources to support job seeking and identifying training and learning opportunities:
Ask at your local library for more information.
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:
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:
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:
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.
IT COURSES AND HELP
Learn My Way provides free self-help online courses on the following subjects (also available in Welsh):
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:
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:
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.