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
Impact Assessments
Arts Service
- Arts Service 49kb pdf
- Arts strategy 36kb pdf
- PUSH4Culture 10kb pdf
Library and Information Service
- Adult Stock policy 9kb pdf
- Business plan 10kb pdf
- Basingstoke Discovery Centre 10kb pdf
- Children's Youth and Schools Library Service 9kb pdf
- Complaints Policy 9kb pdf
- Connect@Botley 9kb pdf
- Devolved budgets 11kb pdf
- Discovery Centres Programme - summary 11kb pdf
- National Year of Reading 2008 11kb pdf
- New artists in libraries 10kb pdf
- Priority Learning and Development Needs Plan 2008-9 9kb pdf
- Reading Garden for Alresford Library 10kb pdf
- Relocation of County Library Headquarters 17kb pdf
Countryside Service
- Cycle Hampshire 2008 25kb pdf
- Rural Strategy 7kb pdf
Hampshire Learning
- Quality Improvement Plan 12kb pdf
Archives and Local Studies
- Access Hampshire Heritage 10kb pdf
- Preservation policy 22kb pdf
- Collecting policy 21kb pdf
- Access and Learning 68kb pdf
- Digital Preservation policy 63kb pdf
- Living Links - Community Archives Project 10kb pdf
- Hampshire Archives and Local Studies - new service 9kb pdf
Museums Service
- Race and Equality Process 52kb pdf
- Learning Opportunities 16kb pdf
- Acquisitions and Disposal policy 16kb pdf
- Service plan - summary
- Service Action Plan 2008/09 128kb pdf
Outdoor Centres
Sports Service
- BME and disability groups to Return to Sport & Well Being Fund Programme 9kb pdf
- Hampshire and the IOW 52kb pdf
- Volunteer Strategy 42kb pdf
- Marketing and Communications plan 52kb pdf
- Coaching 42kb pdf
Project Case Studies
- Gosport Discovery Centre 53kb pdf
- Aiming High 172kb pdf
- VIP Reading Groups 254kb pdf
- Activehearts 32kb pdf
- Living Album 157kb pdf