If there is a library friends or campaign group in your area which does not appear in this list, please send us details via email to TheLibraryCampaign@gmail.com and we will add it.

An alternative source of current information can be found on Ian Anstice’s Public Libraries News site which you can access HERE.

 

Greater London

• Libraries for Life for Londoners  (LLL) – umbrella organisation for London groups WEBSITE (checked 5/13)

Barking and Dagenham

• Save Barking and Dagenham Libraries FACEBOOK (checked 5/13)
• Save Robert Jeyes Library FACEBOOK (checked 5/13)

Barnet

• Friends of Barnet Borough Libraries WEBSITE (checked 5/13)
• East Finchley Library Users Group WEBSITE (checked 5/13)
• Save Friern Barnet Library Group WEBSITE  FACEBOOK  TWITTER (checked 5/13)

Brent

• Brent Save Our Seven Libraries WEBSITE (checked 5/13)
• Friends of Barham Library WEBSITE  TWITTER (checked 5/13)
• Save Kensal Rise Library WEBSITE  FACEBOOK  TWITTER (checked 5/13)
• Friends of Cricklewood Library WEBSITE  Petition to All Souls College (checked 5/13)
• Preston Library Campaign WEBSITE  TWITTER (checked 5/13)
• Keep Willesden Green WEBSITE   TWITTER (checked 5/13)

Camden

• Umbrella Group Camden Public Library User Groups (checked 4/13)
• Belsize Community Library (checked 4/13)
• Friends of Camden Town Library No active group but details of how to form one on the link (checked 4/13)
• Friends of Highgate Library (Camden) (checked 4/13)
• Friends of Kilburn Library No active group but details of how to form one on the link (checked 4/13)
• Friends of West Hampstead Library (checked 4/13)
• Holborn Library Users Group (checked 4/13)
• Keats Community library – formerly Friends of Heath Library (checked 4/13)
• Kentish Town Public Library Users Group No active group but details of how to form one on the link (checked 4/13)
• Primrose Hill Community Library – formerly Chalk Farm library Users Group (updated 4/13)
• St Pancras (Camden Town) Library Friends Group (checked 4/13)
• Swiss Cottage Central Library Users Group (checked 4/13)

Croydon

• Save Croydon Libraries Campaign website , twitter  and facebook (checked 4/13)
• Croydon (and Lambeth)  Upper Norwood Library Campaign and Save Upper Norwood Library from closure (Facebook) and twitter (updated checked 4/13)

Ealing

• The Save Ealing’s Libraries Campaign  appears no longer active as does their Facebook page: Save Ealing’s Libraries (checked 4/13)

Greenwich

• East Greenwich Library Campaign – no longer active? (checked 7/12)
• Friends of West Greenwich Library website (checked 7/12)

Haringey

• Hornsey Library Campaign – no longer active? (updated 6/12)
• Friends Of Reading and Education (FORE) – no longer active? (updated 6/12
• Friends Of Alexandra Park Library – no longer active? (12/12)
• Highgate Library Action Group (Haringey) ( updated 2/13)
• Friends of Marcus Garvey Library – no longer active? (12/12)
• Friends of Muswell Hill Library website (added 12/12)
• St Ann’s Library Campaign - no longer active? (12/12)
• Friends of Stroud Green Library - no longer active? (12/12)

Hounslow

• Friends of Hounslow Libraries – no longer active? (12/12)
• Friends of Bedfont, Hanworth and Feltham Libraries – no longer active? (12/12)

Islington

• Friends of Islington Libraries are incorporated in Islington Society according to news article of 6/11. (updated 10/12)

Lambeth

• Run jointly by Lambeth and Croydon – website: Upper Norwood Library Campaign and Save Upper Norwood Library from closure (Facebook) and twitter ( updated 10/12)
• Friends of Lambeth Palace Library website (updated 7/12)
• Friends of Carnegie Library (Herne Hill) – No website but email address is foclchair@googlemail.com (updated 1/13)
• Friends of Clapham Park Library – believed to be no longer active. (updated 7/12)
• Friends of Durning Library (Kennington) website (updated 7/12)
• Friends of Minet Library – website (added 1/13)
• Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library (Vauxhall) website (updated 7/12)
• Friends of Streatham Library ( newly formed August 2012) facebook (updated 7/12)
• Friends of Brixton Library website (added 1/13)
• Friends of Streatham Vale Library –  No website but email address is simon@hoobermam.wanadoo.co.uk ( added 1/13)
• Friends of Waterloo Library – No website but email address is  naina181@hotmail.co.uk (added 1/13)
• Friends of West Norwood Library  facebook (added 4/13)

Lewisham

• Blackheath Village Library Users Group Now formally wound up, as at May 2011 (checked 8/12)
• Friends of Sydenham Community Library website , facebook and twitter (added 10/12)
•  The Users and Friends of Manor House Library (checked 4/13)

Merton

• Merton Library Campaign –  no longer active? (checked  8/12)
• Friends of Donald Hope Library  Facebook and on Twitter as  @DHLfriends (updated 4/13)
• Friends of Raynes Park Library  (checked 8/12)
• Friends of West Barnes Library website Facebook and on Twitter as @WBLFriends (updated 4/13)

 Richmond Upon Thames

• Friends of Richmond upon Thames Libraries – website (updated 7/12)

 Waltham Forest

• St James St Library Campaign

 

South East

Buckinghamshire

• Chalfont St Giles Community Library and Information Centre WEBSITE (added 05/13)
• Friends of Chalfont St Giles Library WEBSITE (added 05/13)
• Save Stony Stratford Library FACEBOOK (checked 05/13)

East Sussex

• Bexhill Library Friends
• Lewes Library Friends
• Music Libraries Action Group (MULAG)
• Friends of Newhaven Library (FONL)
• Ore Library Friends
• Rye Library Friends
• Friends of Seaford Library
• Friends of Willingdon Library

Not all libraries have friends groups but further information can be found on the East Sussex council website. (added 3/13)

Hampshire

• North Baddesley Community Library on Twitter: @NthBaddesley (added 15/5/13)
• Stanmore Community Library (Winchester) (added 15/5/13}

Isle of Wight

• Save our Libraries on The Isle of Wight (checked 12/12 – no entries since March 11,  querying status)

Kent

• Friends of Ramsgate Library (FORL)
• Sandwich Library Guild details here via Open Sandwich (added 4/13)
• Friends of Medway Libraries website with details  and on Facebook (added 16/4/13)

Oxfordshire

• Friends of Benson Library Twitter: @BensonLibrary (added 12/12)
• Friends of Charlbury Library – Contact details on council website (added 12/12)
• Friends of Grove Library – contact details on council website (added 12/12)
• Friends of Waltington Library Charity Contact details (added 12/12)
• Save Wychwood Library on Twitter @SaveWychWoodLib (added 11/4/13)

Surrey

• Surrey Library Action Movement
• Friends of Cheam Library
• Friends of Virginia Water Library

 

South West

Bristol

• Bristol Library Campaign
• Knowle Library Committee
• Wick Road Library Committee

Cornwall

• Cornwall Library Campaign
• Friends of St Ives Library

Devon

• Friends of Colyton Library (added 19/4/13)
• Friends of Devon Libraries (Added 19/4/13)

Dorset

• Ad Lib – The Association of Friends of Dorset Libraries ( added 12/12)
• Friends of Colehill Library ( added 2/13)

Gloucestershire

• Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries (checked 12/12)

Somerset

• Save Somerset’s libraries

Wiltshire

Swindon

• Friends of Old Town Library

 

West Midlands

Birmingham

Dudley

• Friends of Wall Heath Library (Dudley)

Herefordshire

• Save Herefordshire Libraries TWITTER (added 5/13)
• Hereford Library Users Group WEBSITE (checked 5/13)
• Friends of Leominster Library WEBSITE  TWITTER (added 5/13)

Sandwell

• Federation of Sandwell Libraries
• Blackhouse Library User Group – Oldbury
• Thimblemill Library Users Group

Shropshire

There are a number of friends groups associated with branches of Shropshire libraries. The link is to the County Council’s website and in turn to sites for particular branches.

Wolverhampton

• Hands off Finchfield Library also on Twitter @FinchLibrary
• Save Wolverhampton Libraries website and on Twitter at @WtonLibraryGp ( added 24/11/12)

 

North West

Bolton

• Save Bolton Libraries –  Facebook (added 12/12/)Facebook group 
  

Cheshire

• Friends of Grappenhall Library (Warrington)  website and Twitter as @FoLGrappenhall ( added 13/4/13)
• Friends of Northwich Library
• Our Winsford Library (Friends of Winsford Library)

Lancashire

• Lancaster library
• Colne library
• Haslingden library
• St Annes library
• Lytham library

Manchester

• Save Burnage Library Website  and on Twitter (added 3/13)
• Save Fallowfield Library on Twitter (added 3/13)
• Save Levenshulme Baths and Library website and on Twitter ( added 3/13)
• Save Northenden Library on Facebook and Twitter (added 3/13)
• Hands off Old Trafford Library (HOOT) on Twitter @HOOTLIBRARY  Facebook and website (added 4/13)

Sefton

• Friends of Ainsdale Library (added 19/4/13)

Southport

• Save Southport Libraries on Twitter @AbclsSn  For Ainsdale, Birkdale and Churchtown Libraries and @ChurchTownLib ( added 19/4/13)

Wirral

• Friends of Irby library

 

North East

Darlington

• Darlington Friends of the Libraries  , established April 2012 ( formerly separate library groups, such as Friends of Cockerton Library)
• Friends of Bourne End Library facebook

Gateshead

• Friends of Ryton Library

Newcastle

Save Newcastle Libraries Coalition on Twitter @SNLcoalition ( added 25/11/12)

Northumberland

• Friends of Libraries in Tynedale (FLIT) (added 12/12)

 

Yorkshire and Humber

Sheffield

• Sheffield Communities Against Library Privatisation on Facebook (added 12/4/13)
• Save Walkley Library on Twitter @WalkleyLibrary (added 12/4/13)
• Walkley Library Action Group – no longer running?

Yorkshire

• The Library Campaign – Wakefield
• Supporters of Outwood Library (S.O.U.L.) – Outwood, Wakefield.
• Gargrave Library Group – Skipton
• Friends of Rotherham Central Library
• Friends of Ossett Library
• Friends of Maltby Library – no longer running?
• Friends of Todmorden Library
• Friends of Denby Dale Library (Kirklees)

 

East Midlands

 

East England

Cambridgeshire

Much of the list below is taken from the Cambridgshire County Council website on 26 March 2012. That site may list an email contact where there is no link to a specific Friends website.

• Friends of Arbury Library
• Friends of Bar Hill Library – contact details and events listed here. 4/3/13
• Friends of Barnwell Road Library – no current links found 3/3/13
• Friends of Chatteris Library
• Friends of Comberton Road Library
• Friends Of Cottenham Library
• Friends of Ely Library
• Friends of Great Shelford Library
• Friends of Haddenham Library
• Friends of Linton Library
• Friends of March Library
• Friends of Milton Road Library
• Friends of Rock Road Library
• Friends of Warboys Library
• Save Willingham Library Campaign

Essex

• Support Kent Elms Library FACEBOOK (checked 05/13)
• SOS Leigh Library FACEBOOK  TWITTER (checked 05/13)
• Stand Up For Southend Libraries WEBSITE  FACEBOOK  TWITTER (checked 05/13)

Hertfordshire

• Friends of Chorleywood Libraries – details available via Residents’ Association website (Updated 4/13)
• Friends of Boreham Wood Library – no longer in operation
• We Heart Libraries - covering  the North Herts and Stevenage districts, which include seven libraries – in Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock, Royston, Stevenage (Central and Old Town) and Knebworth  website  twitter  facebook  email

Suffolk

• Friends of Lowestoft Library on Twitter @FriendsOfLowLib  (added 21/4/13) and on Facebook (added 26/4/13)
• Save Debenham Library Facebook Twitter: @SaveDebenhamLib

Wales

•  Lisvane Cabin Community Library

Scotland

Midlothian

• Gorebridge cares on Facebook – Gorebridge library (added 8/4/13)
• Keep our library local on Facebook – Newtongrange library (added 8/4/13)
• Save Mayfield Library on Facebook – Mayfield Library (added 8/4/13)