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Senior surfing Where making

is all the rage and breaking is
at library a good thing
WHILST so many people
YOU are never too old to learn, so interested in technology work
the adage goes, and Swindon Library on their own or remotely in
Service is doing all it can to ensure teams, Swindon Hackspace
seniors are not being left behind in provides a face-to-face place
the surge into the digital age. where members come together
With Government and the to work on programming,
corporate sector slashing costs mechanical assembly and
by reducing face to face services micro-electronic projects.
in preference to making available Their Facebook page says the
online, recent research by the BBC group is for people interested
shows that over 20 per cent of the Becoming web savvy with the help of tutor Lara Maude, from left, Usha in ‘making, breaking, and fixing
population lack the basic digital Daggar, Ann Beauramont, Baldev Gill, Denis Western things.
skills and capabilities required to Recently, members have
realise the benefits of the internet. from Freshbrook, has encouraged what the computer can do. I’ve been experimenting with 3D
Libraries are at the forefront of more people to have a go. learned a lot.” printing and have upgraded
bridging this gap by running regular She said: “I have a laptop but I Call in for details of courses which their printer.
courses with a high tutor-to-pupil really didn’t know what it could take place at Central, Highworth, Hackspace meets weekly at
ratio so that people new to emailing do until I did the course at West North Swindon, Park and West the Museum of Computing in
and surfing can receive personal Swindon Library. It’s really well Swindon libraries. Or contact course Theatre Square. Find out more
attention. done; Lara the trainer spends lots coordinator Joanne Gahan on 01793 at: swindon.hackspace.org.uk
Eighty-year-old Anne Beaumont, of time helping us understand 465554 or 07804 828552. Facebook: Swindon Hackspace
Heritage Lottery Fund backs Great War media project

A £34,000 Heritage Lottery grant the town taken prisoner in the to respond to the needs of the men efforts will be seen in an exhibition
to Create Studios, Swindon is Great War. incarcerated for up to four years a which will tour the town during
funding a project to enable young They are also researching century ago. the second half of 2015.
people to explore a unique archive the story of Mary Slade, who Working with local artists and Visit createstudios.org.uk for
of letters written by soldiers from mobilised the town’s community film maker Gurchetan Singh, their further information.

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