Handsworth Library
- Address
-
Soho Rd,
Handsworth,
Birmingham,
B21 9DP - Opening hours
-
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
- 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, 10:30am to 12:30pm: Change Grow Live – help and advice with substance misuse.
Tuesdays, 11:00am to 12:30pm: Keep Fit for over 50s with ‘Mr Handsworth’.
Thursdays, 11:15am to 12:30pm: Make & Take craft session for adults with Monica Pierre - £2.00 Per Session.
Fridays, 11:00am to midday: Under 5s Storytime.
Last friday of the month, 10:30am to midday: Coffee Morning.
Fridays, 10:30am to midday (second Friday of the month; starting on 11 August): Alzheimer’s Society ‘Singing for the Brain’ and Dementia Adviser support and advice.
Fridays, 2:00pm to 3:30pm: BIPC - one to one business and intellectual property advice sessions.
Saturdays, 2:30pm to 4:30pm: Instilling Brilliance - anger management sessions for 14 to 16 year olds.
One-Off/Special Events
Saturday 24 June, 11:00am to 1:00pm: Windrush 75 Celebration.
Saturday 8 July, annual Summer Reading Challenge for children begins.
Saturday 12 August, 11:00am to 12:30pm: BCAT (Birmingham Centre for Art Therapies) Summer Reading Challenge (SRC) workshop.
Saturday 26 August, 11:00am to 12:30pm: BCAT SRC workshop.
Friday 1 September to Thursday 30 November, ‘Life of a People’ photographic exhibition.
Saturday 23 September, 2:30pm to 3:45pm: SRC awards ceremony and ‘Juggling Jim Circus Show’.
October, Black History Month food-tasting event (date/time TBC).
Thursday 5 October, National Poetry Day poetry performance (date/time TBC).
October to December, Ikon Gallery photographic exhibition.
- Map
