Croydon's Libraries Under Threat!

Are libraries important? We all have childhood memories of our local libraries. For me, I remember reading Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hobbit for the first time.

Confirmation has been received that Bradmore Green Library will only be open this week on

Wednesday Aug 4th

10-1pm  and 2- 5pm.

From next week another day still to be confirmed will be added.

We have submitted our response to the Croydon Council consultation on Libraries. Labour has bankrupted Croydon. Now they ask our children and elderly to pay the price by cutting their access to libraries.

Please see our response attached.

The council has launched the next phase of its consultation on the future of Croydon’s library service.

Croydon residents are being urged to have their say on three detailed options put forward by the council to adapt the borough’s library service.

The formal chance to make your comments on the council's 'consultation' on the Shirley Library (and Broad Green, South Norwood, Sanderstead and Bradmore Green, in Old Coulsdon):  https://getinvolved.croydon.gov.uk/project/678 closed at

This years Council budget is very grim reading, over 6 years of financial mismanagement has resulted in merging, cutting, and reducing council services across the board, including vitally important frontline services such as the protection and investment in our library provision across the boroug

Tonights Library consultation on the webinar unfortunately did not give many answers especially on costs and when it got to my question in what cost had been added in to keep Bradmore open run by volunteers the meeting had to come to an abrupt end!

Our library service is about so much more than buildings and books. Libraries provide an opportunity for communities to come together and are often the one place that one can go to spend time without it costing any money.