Proposals for libraries and community centres

Find out how we're consulting with residents on what you need from Leicester's community centres and libraries.

Leicester’s multi-service centres, community centres, and libraries play an important role in our local neighbourhoods.

They promote health and wellbeing, bring communities together and provide places for people to meet.

They help residents with books and reading and with study and learning. They support people to access information and digital services and provide cultural events and creative activities for children and adults.

However, we know from your feedback that the way people use our multi-service centres, community centres, and libraries is changing. We also know that many people don’t currently visit any of our multi-service centres, community centres and libraries, or are unaware of the services that they offer.

Rising costs and cuts to government funding also mean that we must invest carefully in our services to get the best value for money for our residents.

That’s why we need to ensure the services provided are modern, efficient and fit for purpose for years to come.

Consultation on proposals for libraries and community centres

We have arranged a consultation to gather your views on a set of proposals for libraries and community centres in Leicester.  

Online survey

You can take part in the consultation by completing the online survey until Sunday 29 June.

Drop-in sessions

We will be running five drop-in sessions where you can talk to an officer about the consultation and take the survey. These are at:

Open meetings

We are also holding a number of open meetings, details of which are below. If you would like to attend please email [email protected] with your preferred meeting:

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

Previous public engagement

We undertook a public engagement exercise in the second half of 2023. From July to September 2023 we ran a survey and talked to focus groups to find out what your priorities for our multi-service centres, community centres and libraries might be in the future, whether you currently visited them or not. We received 2,340 responses to the survey along with 511 responses to our young people's survey. In addition, over 80 people attended 12 focus groups to give us feedback.

We looked at every response and input from the focus groups and the surveys and produced two reports, which are attached below. The public engagement report was produced by our research consultants, Activist, and focused on the responses from our survey and focus groups. Leicester City Council’s Neighbourhood Services team produced a secondary research report which focused on service performance.