Coming up at Upper Norwood library hub – Board games, comedy night, Palace Acapella to give a moving performance – and bookings are now open for summer holiday kids camps

Booking is now open for our summer holiday children’s camps! We’ve got two weeks of our Performing Arts Camp followed by two weeks of Little Brushstrokes from Monday 29 July until Friday 23 August. These camps are for children aged 5-11, running Monday to Friday 9:30am-4:30pm here at the Upper Norwood Library Hub. Spend the summer developing skills, making new friends and having fun.

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Palace Acappella’s fundraiser to support our work has already raised more than £800! Thank you so much to Palace Acappella and to everyone who has donated so far. Fundraising like this helps us deliver our learning, wellbeing and arts programme and keep the library’s doors open. Donate here. On Saturday 20 July Palace Acappella are giving an immersive choir performance around the building of the Upper Norwood Library Hub with well-known pop songs, beautiful folk songs, energising world music and of course, fun and much loved numbers, plus a bar serving refreshments! Book this joyous summery event here.

We’re excited to launch our Grown-Up Board Games Night on Tuesday 18 June – come along with friends or come on your own to make new ones. We’ll have some games to play but feel free to bring your own, and there’ll also be a bar serving a range of drinks open from 6pm. Pay what you can – book here. The next Laughs at the Library is on Wednesday 26 June at 8pm – grab a drink at the bar and enjoy a free evening of stand-up comedy here at the library hub! Book your free spot here. Always wanted to tell stories but never quite discovered your own voice? In this Creative Writing Workshop for adults with writer Cressida Peever on 29 June, you’ll try out different genres and explore new writing techniques in a safe and supported space. Find out more and book here.

Find out more about what’s on

Upper Norwood Library Trust has been serving our local community for eight years and counting! We’ve supported 2,332 via our direct charitable programmes across the last year with 206,507 ‘visits’ to the library and wider hub community services. Weekly, 300 community members attend a diverse programme of local community led education, wellbeing and arts classes held in our low-cost community spaces. Read more about our impact here.

Every Friday 10am-12pm our digital inclusion partners ClearCommunityWeb provide a free Digital Drop-In to get questions answered or problems solved for your laptop, tablet or smartphone. It’s a friendly and informal space where you can also practice and get access to other local learning programmes and free data. These sessions are a chance for you to drop in with your device, sit down with a member of their team to get help with a single issue or develop your skills.  Setting up accounts  Installing apps  Resetting passwords  Being safer online  Transferring files  Checking for problems  Starting at the beginning If they are unable to help on the day, they can refer you to their other drop-ins or central support programme.

Other services, programmes & activities

The Safe & Warm project is a community outreach scheme which aims to help people with their energy bills, provide safety advice, and help them access discount schemes and services. Find out more here. We offer free sessions to support literacy and numeracy for children aged 5-8 living in Lambeth who access benefits related free school meals. Wednesdays and Thursdays 4:30pm-6pm in term time. Find out more here.

It’s free of charge to join our library service. You can borrow books, CDs and DVDs, use computers, and print documents during our opening hours. Find out more here. Borrow useful household items for DIY, cleaning, gardening, events, entertainment and more for a few pounds a day. Save money, cut clutter and reduce waste. Find out more here.

From UNLH: t’s been wonderful to see so many of you at the Upper Norwood Library Hub across the last few months – thank you for all your support in running, attending, and telling others about the community programme of activities here. Our staff, Trustees and volunteers took part in a Theory of Change workshop recently to help us showcase the impact the hub makes in our local community, and we look forward to sharing the outcome of this in the coming months. Until then, you can read more about our impact below and how your support continues to create a ripple effect locally. Finally, we sold out on Little Brushstrokes children’s half term camp recently, and if you need some summer places for your little ones on our performance and arts camps, do book early to secure your spaces! Hope to see you at an event or activity here soon! The Upper Norwood Library Hub is managed by the Upper Norwood Library Trust, an independent charity formed in 2012 by local residents. Our library hub operates a co-created community programme focussing on sharing and learning, health and wellbeing, venue and performance, and outreach activities. If you’ve got any questions or need information about our services, programmes and activities, call 0208 670 4321 or email  info@unlt.org.