Events

Support Councillor Rachel Heywood - the only Lambeth Labour Party councillor to speak out against the library closures in Lambeth.

Next campaign open meeting.  All welcome.

The Council continue to pursue their Bookish-gym proposals even though its now clear there is NO plan - so they are throwing money at trying to close libraries - We must stop them.

We will be asking candidates where they stand on the council’s library plans and putting our campaign statement forward for them to sign up to.

Next campaign open meeting. All welcome.

Fortnightly music and gardening protest

Next campaign open meeting.  All welcome.

Annual Summer Fundraising Fete run by Friends of Ruskin Park. The Friends of Carnegie Library will have a stall and there will be defendthe10 picnic.

Events at 'pop up carnegie', over the road in the park:

2pm - 3pm Story time with Sara and Anne
3pm - 4pm Arts and Crafts with Lucy
4pm - 5pm After school drama - 5 yrs - 15yrs with Rachel and Sara
5pm - 6pm Carnegie Chess Club with Edward
6.30pm - 7pm Panel discussion: What is a Library?
7pm - 8pm Picnic and Folk jam - bring your instrument and some food

Your chance to ask:

• Is there a business plan?
• If not, will a reason be given for a £m project being approved without *any* proven demand/planning?
• Will Council consult properly on Carnegie Library plans plans & if not why not? (NB when asked, North Lambeth residents said that Tate South Lambeth should stay a library)
• Will the exhibition provide details of the future library service? Book stock, opening hours, staffing hours etc?

Among other questions

Your chance to ask:

• Is there a business plan?
• If not, will a reason be given for a £m project being approved without *any* proven demand/planning?
• Will Council consult properly on Carnegie Library plans plans & if not why not? (NB when asked, North Lambeth residents said that Tate South Lambeth should stay a library)
• Will the exhibition provide details of the future library service? Book stock, opening hours, staffing hours etc?

Among other questions

Our regular open meeting. All welcome.

Saturday 9 July is the 110th anniversary of the opening of our Carnegie Library. Sadly, it also marks 100 days since it was closed.

To celebrate the library’s history of service to our community, the Friends are organising a special event. Plans include a picnic, music, readings, games and perhaps a few surprises.

We will set up our table and gather at the top of Haredale Road (left side of library). There will be welcome refreshments at 3.00. Speeches will be given at 3.30, the exact time of the 1906
event.

Please try to bring a contribution of food or drink for the picnic.

Full council meets on the 13th July. Defend the 10 will be applying to present a deputation.

Publicise the campaign

Sign up to help on our stall in the Trade Union tent.  We will also be gathering campaigners together there at 3pm on Sunday. All welcome. Wear your t- shirt. Lets talk to as many Lambeth residents as possible about what is happening to their libraries.

Sign up form

Our regular open meeting. All welcome.

Our regular open meeting. All welcome.

Lambeth council (identified by the Runneymede Trust as the most unequal borough in London) has announced its new commission "to take a deeper look into the
reasons behind persistent inequalities in the borough." and is inviting 'evidence' from Lambeth residents in the first of 4 discussions. come along to this meeting to explain the impact of taking away library services from the most disadvantaged...

join campaigners to discuss next actions

Come together with Defend the Ten library campaigners this Saturday to say we need our library back! 10 months after the Council shut Minet library and locked out the local community,  we will be tying messages to the railings to tell them we're not going away. We need our library back!

                   Re-open our library now!

Next steps in our campaign to get our libraries back! With planning permission agreed for GLL to destroy Carnegie library and replace our much loved and fully staffed library with an unwanted gym and unstaffed 'book lounge', and with Minet still locked,we will be discussing where we go from here....ALL WELCOME!

On the anniversary of the closure of Carnegie and Minet libraries and our occupation, library users will be protesting at Carnegie library. After a whole year locked shut and thousands of Lambeth residents denied access to a library service, we say loud and clear 'We need our libraries back! Re-open them now!'

ALL WELCOME!!!

GLL have their HQ in Brixton Rec. Planning permisson has been granted and excavations are expected imminently to dig up the basement of Carnegie library for an unwanted pay-to-use gym. Join the protest to say to GLL - the anti-social enterprise -  'Don't send in your diggers! We need our library service!'

It's now been a year since Lambeth shut our libraries and removed the vital service they provided from one of the most deprived areas of the whole borough. Having chosen to spend money spent to keep the libraries locked and with plans to spend £millions to replace a free public service with pay-to-use gyms, Defend the Ten invites everyone to a campaigning public meeting to demand they re-open Minet and Carnegie now.

Contractors are poised to begin digging up the basement of our much loved and well used library in preparation for GLL to install it's unwanted and unrequired gym. This follows the council's scandalous decision  to give the building to it's shady pals the Carnegie Community Trust. Come along to find out what's really going on behind the council's spin and what we can do next to get our library service back.

URGENT ACTION! CALLING ALL LIBRARY SUPPORTERS!

CANDLELIT PROCESSION TO CARNEGIE LIBRARY AND VIGIL

With contractors poised to begin digging up the basement, join local residents as they leave the latest meeting with Lambeth Council in a candlelit procession to the steps of the closed Carnegie library and send a clear message in the darkness that we need our library back!

NO DIGGING! NO GYM! RE-OPEN OUR LIBRARY NOW!

...and join us in planning our next actions against the destructive, unnecessary and undemocratic plans to replace our much loved public library and the much needed service it once provided, with an unwanted pay-to-use GLL gym and an almost staff-less 'library' room. The exact date for excavation has yet to be revealed but is expected for the start of September!

The contractor's hoardings are up but there's still all to play for and we are as determined as ever!

As we enter the next stage in our fight to see our library re-opened, Defend the 10 invites everyone to join us for some creative messaging, poster-making, railings decoration and more...

Let's show our local councillors - who don't seem to know what a library really is - what Carnegie library meant to us all and why we need it back, as a professionally staffed library providing a full library service. Join us in keeping up the pressure as the clock ticks down to local elections on 3rd May 2018!

Join Defend the 10 on Saturday outside this year's Cooperative Party conference where GLL has a stall promoting itself as an ethical 'social enterprise' . As Lambeth council and its partner in crime GLL look set to replace libraries with unwanted pay-to use gyms, this is an opportunity stand up for our libraries at this critical moment!

Join Defend the 10 to lobby the next full council meeting. Re-open our libraries now! Libraries for the many, not gyms for the few! ALL WELCOME!

Defend the 10 will be joining residents from the threatened Cressingham Gardens estate to show support and solidarity:-
Ballot Us! Residents are demanding that Lambeth council and other councils around the country, give residents a binding ballot as to whether they want their estates regenerated (ie demolished) or not.

At the Labour Party conference a motion was passed calling for “full binding ballot rights for estate residents in any ongoing and future regeneration projects”. Jeremy Corbyn, the party leader, referred to this in his closing speech. However, Lambeth council, a Labour council, has refused to give residents on the regeneration estates a ballot.

Pls join, invite, share and tweet!

Lets make it loud, vibrant, dynamic and colourful, if you can wear green. It will be dusk when we finish so wrap up warm, lets make it spectacular!

Come along to the Friends of Carnegie Library Winter Fair. Now displaced from the library, the Friends will be welcoming library supporters to their annual winter fair. All the usual festive offers plus a chance to purchase a very special Defend the 10 t-shirt - the perfect xmas present! Expeditions to the library hoardings...details on the day....

JOIN US IN PROTEST: WE NEED OUR LIBRARY SERVICE BACK!

Almost 2 years after Lambeth Council closed Carnegie library and after relentless campaigning by library Friends and Defend the 10 campaigners, the council is finally ready to unlock the doors...but it won't be to welcome the return of our much loved and still needed library. Apart from 2 hours a day when a librarian will visit, GLL customer care staff will replace the professional librarians and trained library staff who used to provide us with our library service.  Money that could have been used to restore the library is being diverted into the pet project of the Councillors' friends, the Carnegie Community Trust, while £millions have gone on excavating the basement for a pay-to-use gym that no one wants. In a rush to get their fake library in place before the local elections, Lambeth Council are opening the building while major building works continue and there are huge issues with health and safety. It's a really expensive dogs's dinner and offers no future for the library.

WEAR YOUR T-SHIRTS, BRING MESSAGES AND RIBBONS FOR THE RAILINGS....

2 years since the councillors locked the library doors, the fight for our library is as important as ever! April 3rd marks the date they stole our library from us and the determined fightback by the community in the ten day occupation. It will also be exactly one month before the May council elections.

The council spin continues as they congratulate themselves for re-opening the library and securing its future. Defend the 10, Lambeth UNISON and the Friends of Carnegie Library have persevered in exposing the truth about the financial disaster of the gym deal and the giving away of a public library building to an unaccountable council-promoted Trust. A library at Carnegie is far from returned and far from secure!

Join us on April 3rd  to demand a restoration of a full public library service at Carnegie library and send a clear message to the councillors who continue to fail the people who elected them.

Join Defend the 10 to give out our own 'new councillor welcome pack' as the newly elected council meet for the first time. With libraries clearly a big issue during the election and with campaigners continuing to press for fully staffed  public libraries, surely it's time for a re-think....

wear your tee-shirts....

Join Defend the 10 campaigners over the weekend at the Lambeth Country Show. Let's get together to say LambethLibrariesMatter

We will have a stall in the trade union tent. Come and find us there and help us leaflet on Sunday from 3-5pm

Lambeth has 10 libraries - sort of.  Three years ago the council
rushed through its secret plan to downgrade four and turn three into
gyms with few books and no staff. Public opposition was instant,
total, repeated - and completely ignored.
What has happened since then?
What is the current state of Lambeth's libraries?
Could the future be even worse?
Drop in to find out!
Hear from library users, campaigners & staff.
And discuss what Lambeth residents can do next...

ALL WELCOME at this public meeting hosted by Friends of Carnegie Library

Lambeth Council's next meeting on Wednesday falls right in the middle of National Libraries Week. An excellent moment in time to re-make the case for professionally staffed libraries that can offer their essential services to our community. So far with library staff removed, we have lost a library service in Carnegie, Waterloo and Minet libraries and  future funding for South Lambeth and Durning libraries is uncertain. We have to ensure that councillors know that libraries matter!!

JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY from 6.30

ALL WELCOME

Lambeth Council are about to decide where the axe falls on their third wave of Austerity. Libraries are expected to be cut by a further £280k - on top of everything that's been cut in the last 10 years. It isn't acceptable.

Join us at 6pm on the Town Hall steps to lobby the Council - Don't implement the Tory cuts - the money is there!