Last month Lancashire County Council launched a pilot programme in Pendle in partnership with local Sure Start programmes, Bradley and Whitefield, Brierfield and Walverden, Waterbridge and Walton Lane Children's Centre.
The council's Children First Resource Centre, set up in February 2000, already provides books, toys and topic-based equipment to more than 700 schools, nurseries and childcare settings.
Each school half-term, teachers and practitioners will visit Walton Lane Children's Centre to return their resources and collect their orders.
Annual membership fees vary between 11.75 for childminders and 75 for schools.
Marion Bamford, the resource co-ordinator, said, 'We spend up to 40,000 a year on educational resources and we have more than 2,000 crates containing topic-related equipment in our warehouse.
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