COVID-19: Your Experiences

Bedford Borough Council sent this bulletin at 21-04-2020 04:02 PM BST

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Making COVID-19 History

The Higgins Bedford and Bedfordshire Archives has issued a call for you to share with them your experiences and those of your community and workplaces during coronavirus.

Are you keeping a journal, taking photographs of your daily exercise, posting to social media? Are you running a local business to support local people day to day, or creating a rainbow artwork for your front windows? Have you volunteered to be part of a community initiative to support those self-isolating or our key workers? Are you a key worker facing the busiest time of your working life?

These are unprecedented and very challenging times. Despite this many inspiring stories are being created. The Higgins Bedford want to capture these stories and all the good things happening, whilst acknowledging that these are also overshadowed by sadder matters. These stories will form an important part of our social history, there for us all and future generations to look back on.

If you have a story, photographs, video, poetry, letters, journals, artworks, objects or other contribution you would like to tell us about, please email Lydia Saul, Keeper of Social History at The Higgins Bedford at Lydia.Saul@bedford.gov.uk for further information.

Thank you in advance for your help, our priority at the moment is for everyone to stay home, stay safe and stay well.

Free e-books and audiobooks with Bedford Libraries

Did you know that reading can reduce stress levels by 68%? Now more than ever, we need activities that give us solace. So, who can provide you with a wide range of books for you and your family? The library of course!

Download e-books from authors like Lee Child, David Baldacci, Zadie Smith and Cressida McLaughlin for when you get a moment to yourself, plus titles by Holly Smale, Derek Landy, Roald Dahl, and Rick Riordan to occupy the younger readers in your household.

Choose from an enormous range of audiobooks including Harry Potter, The World’s Worst Children and Kid Normal, plus adult bestsellers including 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine', 'The Mirror and the Light', and 'The Road to Little Dribbling'.

Download and open the RBDigital app and select ‘Register now’. Tap and scroll to choose United Kingdom, then type in Bedford to choose the library and create your account. Enter the number on your library card - create a username and password and enter your details, then tap ‘Register’. Not a library member yet? You can join online here.

Find out more about our digital resources on the Virtual Library at www.bedford.gov.uk/libraries

Coronavirus Info on Whatsapp

The UK Government has launched a GOV.UK Coronavirus Information service on WhatsApp.

The new free to use service aims to provide official, trustworthy and timely information and advice about coronavirus (COVID-19), and will further reduce the burden on NHS services.

This will help combat the spread of coronavirus misinformation in the UK, as well as helping ensure people stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.

To use the free GOV.UK Coronavirus Information Service on WhatsApp, simply add 07860 064422 in your phone contacts and then message the word ‘hi’ in a WhatsApp message to get started.

Keeping You Updated

For updates on what's happening locally, visit our dedicated coronavirus webpage: www.bedford.gov.uk/covid19

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