Events | Blackfen Community Library

Hub Workshop

by Sharon Marriott | 7 May, 2025 | Youth | 0 Comments

Our workshops are held in a fun and active environment. Learn new skills, improve your mental fitness and make new friends! Big variation of topics and best of all they are all free! This one is all...

May Half Term

by Sharon Marriott | 7 May, 2025 | blackfen community announcement, Family | 0 Comments

Come and join us this half term for lots of fun activities from Lego Art to Gem Art to a Dino Dragon Party and Stay n Play!! Book everything on Blackfen Community Library Eventbrite. We hope to see...

Book Amnesty 6-17 May

by Sharon Marriott | 1 May, 2025 | Books | 0 Comments

Join our Book Amnesty happening from 6th to 17th May. This is your chance to rummage through your bookshelves and homes and discover any books that you may have lying around and no longer need....

Family Cooking Workshop

by Sharon Marriott | 30 April, 2025 | Family | 0 Comments

Bring your child along for our family friendly child cookery workshop. Come and learn how to make a lentil shepherds pie and banana pancakes. All the ingredients and equipment will be supplied....

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Parenting Support Zoom

by Sharon Marriott | Sep 1, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Family

Are you a parent? Would you like some support on how to parent your primary aged child? Then join our Zoom. With advice and support from a trained counsellor and experiences and stories from other parents - find the support you need. Thursday 21 September on Zoom 8pm....

Budgeting Workshop

by Sharon Marriott | Sep 1, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Event

Are you struggling in the current financial market or want some help with money saving ideas? Then come along to this informal workshop with James our Financial Advisor. He will be offering lots of tips on how to save money and how to make the most of the money you...

Summer Reading Challenges to do at home

by Sharon Marriott | Aug 24, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Family

We have recorded some challenges for you to try at home with the SRC Characters. Get active - challenge your friends and family - what can you do? Can you design your own challenges? Come and show us at the library....

Borrow a Ball

by Sharon Marriott | Aug 16, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Family

We are officially a Ball Lending Library. We have teamed up with Alive & Kicking UK. They have supplied us with 10 footballs, netballs and basketballs. Would you like to play with a ball but can't afford to buy one? Then pop along to Blackfen Community Library...

We are Hiring!

by Sharon Marriott | Aug 16, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Youth

We are recruiting for an 'Assistant Youth Worker' and a 'Social Media and Digital Marketing Lead' to join our team and help us develop our offer to the community. Find more details: Assistant Youth Worker Job Description Social Media and Digital Marketing Job...

Book Reviews

by Sharon Marriott | Aug 11, 2023 | Book Reviews

Book Review: A Time for Mercy by John Grisham In ‘A Time for Mercy’, we meet up again with Jake Brigance the brilliant young defence lawyer, working in Clanton, Mississippi who we first read about in Grisham’s earlier novel “A Time to Kill” (if you haven’t read that...

Gold Volunteering Award

by Sharon Marriott | Aug 9, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Volunteering

We do value our Volunteers at Blackfen Community Library and wouldn't be able to run the library, Rooted or the activities/events we do without them. We were delighted to receive the Valuing Volunteers GOLD award in recognition of how we look after our volunteers. We...

Author Louise Fitzgerald

by Sharon Marriott | Jul 13, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Books

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Louise Fitzgerald for giving us some copies of her new book 'The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever' for our Children's Section. Louise is going to be coming to the library in August for a special Interactive Storytelling of her book...

Well Done to our Volunteers!

by Sharon Marriott | Jul 13, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Volunteering

We do value our Volunteers at Blackfen Community Library and wouldn't be able to run the library, Rooted or the activities/events we do without them. We were delighted when they were nominated for all their hard work at the Bexley Volunteer Excellence Awards. A...

Summer Holiday Activities

by Sharon Marriott | Jul 12, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Family

This summer come and join us at Blackfen Community Library for lots of activities to keep your kids amused all summer. Whether it's coming to watch our Science Show with FizzPop Professors, doing craft activities, Archery, meeting authors, playing and building with...