Further evidence emerges of the danger posed to Libraries once they are outside of council control

It's recently come to light that one of the community groups tasked with running our libraries since 2011 secured funding by putting the library up as collateral. 

Thankfully on this occasion, there has been no reason to call in the assets, but this shows just how at risk our libraries will be.

Public Meeting Tonight

Unison have booked a room at the St Laurence Church tonight from 7pm.
We'll be discussing strategies to resist and protest the proposed cuts.
All supporters of the libraries are welcome

St Laurence Centre
37 Bromley Road
SE6 2TS

Help us lobby the Mayor

Hi, 

Please help us lobby the Mayor, Sir Steve Bullock, to reject the proposal to save £1 million from the library service budget.

Simply fill in the attached letter and pop it in the post, or email to steve.bullock@lewisham.gov.uk

Also fill in our petition https://www.change.org/p/lewisham-council-save-lewisham-libraries

Public Consultation tonight

The final Public consultation meeting is tonight at 7.30pm at St Dunstan's Jubilee Hall,Canadian Avenue, Catford SE6 4SW

Please come and show your support if you can

The first real public meeting

Unison have booked a room at the St Laurence Church on Thursday 19th November from 7pm.
We'll be discussing strategies to resist and protest the proposed cuts.
All supporters of the libraries are welcome

St Laurence Centre
37 Bromley Road
SE6 2TS

New Cross Learning are short of volunteers

New Cross Learning are desperately short of volunteers, and at risk of reducing opening hours. Please support them by volunteering if you can, while opposing the plans to put more libraries at risk.

Please sign our Petition
https://www.change.org/p/lewisham-council-save-lewisham-libraries

Community Library use drops by up to 90%

Some excellent analysis here by the Forest Hill Society, showing that use of the community libraries has dropped by 60-90% since they have been run by volunteers, a fact that the Council are frantically trying to hide or ignore

http://www.foresthillsociety.com/2015/10/library-visits-and-borrowing-in-lewisham.html?m=1