Culture, Community and Rural Affairs Equality and Diversity

We aim to serve the whole Hampshire community in all its diversity. We are committed to providing accessible services and we are continually working to identify any inequalities in the way we deliver our services and to look for opportunities for opening them up to a wider section of the public, particularly to disadvantaged groups.

In this way we try to identify and remove any barriers to access by constantly reviewing the relevance of our services to individual needs. Groups can be disadvantaged or marginalised through a number of possible factors - disability, race, gender, age, faith, sexual orientation, income, geographical location or other factors. The stories told here of some of the work we are doing with communities demonstrate how much we do to open up our services and what difference it is making to people’s lives.

Gosport Discovery Centre combines the best of traditional libraries with an exiting world of fun, leisure and learning making a difference to people's lives in the local community
Aiming High works with young people with behavioural and social needs and offers a programme of learning experiences in the outdoors.
VIP Reading Groups - Hampshire library service supports a growing reading community among Hampshire's visually impaired readers
Activehearts takes arts and music therapy into residential and nursing homes across Hampshire, helping to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of residents
Living Album is helping Hampshire's Gypsy and Traveller community to discover and access museum and archive collections and to open up the history of gypsy culture and lifestyle in Hampshire