Events | Blackfen Community Library

Donate – 10 for £10

by Sharon Marriott | 11 May, 2026 | blackfen community announcement | 0 Comments

Did you know it is our 10th Anniversary in 2026!! Do you love what we do here at Blackfen Community Library? Then help us continue to impact our community for the next 10 years and provide free...

10th Anniversary Celebrations

by Sharon Marriott | 13 May, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We are celebrating 10 Years of Blackfen Community Library and Rooted Coffee House! Join us at one of our celebrations on Saturday 30th May. If you have children, book in for our Family Pirate Party...

Hub in May – No Filter Needed Workshop

by Sharon Marriott | 5 May, 2026 | Youth | 0 Comments

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

May Half Term 2026

by Sharon Marriott | 5 May, 2026 | Event | 0 Comments

Bored this half term? Not sure what to do with your kids? Come along to Blackfen Community Library. Let the kids play in our children's area with some toys and pretend play or join one of our...

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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...

Summer Reading Challenge

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

Get ready for The Summer Reading Challenge, arriving at Blackfen Community Library this summer. Starting on Sat 8th July to 8 Sept. Children are being asked to read 6 books. As they read library books, they will collect stickers for their folders. If they want to read...

Meccano Day

by Sharon Marriott | Jul 4, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Event, Family

See working models using Meccano. Get hands-on by building your own Meccano models in our Make It With Meccano workshop! The workshop is suitable for participants aged 8+ and instructions for some easy-to-build starter models will be provided, or you can do your own...