Summer Fayre

Our Summer Fayre will be held at the library on Saturday, 15th June, from 2:15pm, coinciding with the Connecting Narborough Summer Saturday in the village.

We will have a tombola with exciting prizes, a bran tub for children and lovely handmade crafts and plants for sale – perfect gifts.

This is also the last chance to buy raffle tickets for just £1 each (check our earlier post for the full list of amazing prizes donated by local businesses!). The drawing will take place at 3:45 pm.

As always, these events are essential for fundraising to keep our library running. Any contribution, be it buying an item or a raffle ticket, is greatly appreciated.

Summer Raffle Tickets on Sale!

Our annual raffle of the year will be this summer!

Tickets are on sale at the library now for £1 each.

The raffle will be drawn on Saturday 15th June, 2024 at 3:45pm at our Summer Fayre.

Our raffle would not be possible without the generosity of the following local companies who have donated the following wonderful prizes.

Prizes:

Luxury food and drink hamper from Asda
Six month membership for two adults from LivingWell Health Club
Elizabeth Arden beauty products
Handbag from Royal Court Shoe Repairs, two to win!
Fresh flowers from Petals Florist
Food voucher from Plough, Littlethorpe
Gift from Narborough Eye Care
Alcohol from Tesco Copt Oak
Gift from Cotton Tail Cards
Wine from Old Inn Littlethorpe
Gift from Myrtles Home Furnishings
Voucher from Hi-Tide Fish Bar, Narborough

And more prizes to be won!

All proceeds from our raffle go towards the ongoing costs of running the library, so buy a ticket and support your local library!

Quiz Night – Tickets Available

We’re having another one of our ever popular quiz nights!

Tickets are available from the library now!

The quiz will be on March 22nd, 7pm at Littlethorpe Village Hall.

Cost is £7 per ticket and that will include a light supper, bring your own drinks.

Quiz teams up to 6, or just come along yourself, there’ll be plenty of teams to join.

Holiday Opening Times

Happy holidays! Here are our opening times until the New Year.

Thursday, 21st – Open 10am – 1pm
Saturday, 23rd – Open 10am – 12pm
Sunday, 24th to Wednesday, 27th (inclusive) – Closed
Thursday, 28th – Open 10am – 12pm
Friday 29th – Tuesday, 2nd January (inclusive) – Closed

Normal hours resume from Wednesday, 3rd January.

From Wednesday, 3rd January, our Wednesday opening hours will be 1pm – 6pm.

Board Game Group is on December 19th, closed December 26th, and will be closed until January 16th.
Busy Hands & Minds resumes from January 19th.
Digital Drop In is closed on December 20th and 27th and resumes January 2nd.
Wriggly Readers is closed on December 19th and 26th, and January 2nd and resumes January 9th.

Library Closed 5th & 6th October

We will be closed on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th October while we have new electrical sockets installed.

The Busy Hands and Minds session scheduled for Friday 6th October has moved to this Friday, the 29th September.

You can return books via the book drop or renew them online.

You can also renew by telephone if you call another library.

Alternative libraries:

Cosby: Open Thurs 10am – 12:30pm, Fri 2pm – 5pm

Enderby: Open Thurs 2pm – 5pm, Fri 2pm – 6pm

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Autumn Fayre

We’re having an Autumn Fayre on September 23rd, 2pm – 4:30pm.

There will be gifts, crafts and cards for sale, prize to be won in a tombola and children’s bran tub. We also have a jar of sweets to win if you can guess how many are in the jar and a cake to win if you can guess the weight!

It’s also the last chance to enter our raffle, prizes include a luxury hamper from Asda, and prizes from Next, LivingWell health club, Copt Oak, Mill on the Soar, Narborough Eye Care and more. The raffle will be drawn at 3:45pm.

All proceeds from sales will fund the library so come along and support your local library.