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....

News & Events

All the latest news and events from Blackfen Community library

Review of ‘Handle With Care’ by Jodi Picoult

by Jayne Runacres | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized

Reviewed by Rhiannon, Rooted Coffee House member of staff. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. But what happens when you’re not given the choice? Jodi Picoult excels in her book ‘Handle with Care’, as she...

Review of The Help by Kathryn Stockett

by Jayne Runacres | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized

Reviewed by Jayne, Blackfen Community Library member. This book has been on my bookshelf for years and I’d never got around to reading it. I’m not a big novel reader, I prefer non-fiction. However, a global pandemic seemed like a great time to sate my curiosity about...

Review of ‘My Grandmother Sends Her Regards & Apologies’ and ‘A Man Called Ove’ by Fredrik Backman

by Jayne Runacres | Apr 28, 2020 | Uncategorized

By Blackfen Community Library member Mel I first discovered Fredrik Backman when I picked up and read 'My Grandmother Sends Her Regards & Apologies'. These books are real treasures with a wonderful sense of humour and heartache in equal measure køb viagra. Fredrik...

Review of ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’ by Laurie Lee

by Jayne Runacres | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized

By Chris D., Blackfen Community Library Volunteer. My second book review is of an old favourite of mine that I could read again and again – ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’ by Laurie Lee first published in 1969. This is a slim novel of roughly 200 pages and it...

Review of ‘I Let You Go’ by Clare Mackintosh

by Jayne Runacres | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized

By Chris D., Blackfen Library Volunteer. In these uncertain times, what better way to escape from it all than with a good book – a happy feel-good novel or a gripping page-turner – either one will transport you for a while to a different place and take your mind off...

Covid-19 Update

by Jayne Runacres | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized

We will be closing from 5pm Friday 20th March for the foreseeable future. Please follow our facebook page for updates. We will be extending loan dates and you will not incur any fines for the period that we are closed. Check out our facebook page for updates...

Christmas and New year opening

by Paula | Dec 27, 2019 | Uncategorized

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are closed for the Christmas break and will reopen on the 2nd January

Join the Summer Reading Challenge from this Saturday 13th July!

by Paula | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized

Blackfen Community Library will be running the Summer Reading Challenge again this year, and pre-registration starts from Saturday 13th July, with the Challenge starting officially on Wednesday 23rd July and continuing over the summer. The theme this year is Space...

Summer Reading Challenge – your library needs you!

by Paula | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized

We're currently recruiting volunteers to help us during the Summer Reading Challenge 2019 - could you help? What is the Summer Reading Challenge? The Summer Reading Challenge gets primary-aged children into libraries to keep up their reading skills and confidence...

Open Mic Night – Fri 10th May

by Paula | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized

We're really excited to announce that we're hosting our first Open Mic Night on Friday 10th May. it'll be a celebration of music, poetry and the local community. Take part yourself or come along and enjoy a relaxed evening of entertainment, good food, drinks, and even...