Handsworth Library
- Address
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Soho Rd,
Handsworth,
Birmingham,
B21 9DP
- Opening hours
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Monday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
Tuesday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
Thursday, 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 6pm
Friday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
Saturday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm - Contact
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0121 464 1185 or handsworth.library@birmingham.gov.uk
- Services
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- 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.
- Map
