Everything to Everybody (E2E), was an ambitious and inspiring 4-year project led jointly by the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council’s Library of Birmingham to restore the world’s first, oldest and largest Shakespeare collection in any public library to every city resident.
After 4 years, it was great to see the Everything to Everybody Evaluation Report has been published.
The partnership achieved a national first: they took the City’s precious, 400-year-old First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays out of the Library to 16 community venues including libraries, shopping centres, a family centre, a church and a prison.
270,500+ people participated in E2E activity across the project lifetime, of whom 11,793 had a close-up view of the First Folio.
It is estimated that visits to E2E events generated an additional economic benefit. to the Birmingham economy of over £900,000 in that time.
Durnin Research was part of a team led by Jenni Waugh Consulting, and also including Tonia Collett and James MacDonald.
Click here to check out the report
Click here to check out the videos produced by James as part of the evaluation.
Jonathan Durnin Research 