Handsworth Library

Address
Soho Rd,
Handsworth,
Birmingham,
B21 9DP
Opening hours
Monday: 9:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Tuesday: 9:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Thursday: 10:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Friday: 9:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Contact

Phone: 0121 464 1185

Email: handsworth.library@birmingham.gov.uk

Services
  • Accessible entrance
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Free use of computers and other devices
  • Charging facilities for phones and other devices
  • Work stations
  • Library facilities
  • Book borrowing and swapping
  • Toilets, including accessible toilets

Regular Group Activities

Tuesdays, 10.30-12.30 Change Grow Live – help and advice with substance misuse.

Tuesdays, 11.00-12.30 Keep Fit for over 50s with ‘Mr Handsworth’.

Thursdays, 11.15-12.30 Make & Take craft session for adults with Monica Pierre - £2.00 Per Session.

Fridays, 11.00-12.00 Under 5s Storytime.

Fridays, 10.30-12.00 (last Friday of the month) Coffee Morning.

Fridays, 10.30-12.00 (second Friday of the month; starting on 11th August) Alzheimer’s Society ‘Singing for the Brain’ and Dementia Adviser support and advice.

Fridays, 14.00-15.30 BIPC – one to one business and intellectual property advice sessions.

Saturdays, 14.30-16.30 Instilling Brilliance – anger management sessions for 14–16-year-olds. 

 

One-Off/Special Events:

Saturday 24th June, 11.00-13.00 Windrush 75 Celebration.

Saturday 8th July, annual Summer Reading Challenge for children begins.

Saturday 12th August, 11.00-12.30 BCAT (Birmingham Centre for Art Therapies) Summer Reading Challenge (SRC) workshop.

Saturday 26th August, 11.00-12.30 BCAT SRC workshop.

Friday 1st September – Thursday 30th November, ‘Life of a People’ photographic exhibition.

Saturday 23rd September, 14.30-15.45 SRC awards ceremony and ‘Juggling Jim Circus Show’.

October, Black History Month food-tasting event (date/time TBC).

Thursday 5th October, National Poetry Day poetry performance (date/time TBC).

October-December, Ikon Gallery photographic exhibition.

 

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