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Great discussions at tonight's #Climate Book Club! Next month's book is "From What Is to What If" by Bob Hopkins. A real antidote to dystopia, and full of inspiring ideas! We'll be meeting on Tues June 6th at 7pm. (Please note this is a re-post as the previous date was wrong!)

📢WE HAVE SOME BIG NEWS TO SHARE 📢 Today we launch our BIG BUILD FUNDRAISER! Help us to improve the facilities at our wonderful Community Space. Read our story: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/old-library-… Thank you 🙏

Join us at tomorrow's Makers' Morning! If you have a project at home that you would like to finish, but never find the headspace for, bring it along! It's all about being creative and crafty in the company of like-minded people! fb.me/e/4rTC5hM8L?ti…

The Climate Book Club is meeting tonight at 7pm to discuss "From What Is To What If". Everyone welcome!

We have our last repair café on this Saturday before we close for our summer build: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/olbuild23 No garment repair this time, but we'll still have repairers happy to look at your small electricals! The café will open alongside for you to enjoy a coffee whilst you wait!

Our treasurer, Alison, and Kate, who runs the Umbrella singers, an inclusive choir that meets at the Old Library, were on BBC Radio Bristol this morning to talk about our fundraiser. You can listen to it here (from 8:10) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Our Tuesday 3rd October climate change book club cannot run at The Old Library due to refurbishments, so we will meet on the same day, 3rd October, and same time, 19:00-21:00, at Redland Quaker Meeting House (redlandquakers.org.uk). Apologies for any inconvenience!

So glad to be part of this! **** Please note that the next meeting will be held at Redland Quaker Meeting House due to the building works happening at the Old Library. ***** We will be discussing Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker.

Please note that the Climate Book Club cannot run at The Old Library tonight due to refurbishments, so we will meet at the same time, 19:00-21:00, at Redland Quaker Meeting House instead. (redlandquakers.org.uk). We hope you can still make it, despite the new location!

We loved having the #RepairCafé back today and seeing so many familiar and new faces! We started keeping track of the environmental impact of our sessions on our website, really looking forward to pushing those numbers up! theoldlibrary.org.uk/repaircafe/ #ClimateAction

What a great #GrowingWithNature session led by Sara Venn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her from IncrEdibleBristol. We learned about #ecosystems, soil and much more, and got to connect with other community growing projects in the area. Thanks to UWE Engineering our Future & the MAKERS project for making it possible!

We're collaborating with partners to launch 2 new funding opportunities for community organisations to progress local climate and nature action. Find out more at bit.ly/CCAfunding and do help us share these opportunities.

We will be running 4 sewing workshops with Re-Thrindle from Sparks Bristol May - July. Thanks to funding received from the MAKERS project these are offered free of charge, though priority is given to those on low incomes. Register your interest here: forms.gle/uoaPsUTzFwbu4P…

It's been great to be part of this project with so many other fantastic community groups in Bristol!

The The Old Library & Re_Thrindle put on a great "Upcycle your Garment" session last night! Community members and UWE Bristol students learned how to re-style & alter unworn clothes into something new. This is part of the Royal Academy of Engineering funded repair and making focused MAKERS project.

Over the past year, the MAKERS Project, which was funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering Diversity Impact Programme, has partnered with The Old Library to deliver workshops focused on food growing, sewing, and textile repair. Read all about it here 👉bit.ly/3XX5d05

MAKERS is such a great project to be part of! Looking forward to building on the workshops we have run so far and bringing more skills to more people whilst supporting our community.

The Climate Book Club is starting up again in October! Led by Dr Sarah Robertson, Associate Professor of UWE English Literature, it offers the perfect opportunity to discuss a variety of contemporary novels that engage with the changing climate. theoldlibrary.org.uk/climate-litera…

The Old Library Repair Café is back tomorrow after its summer break! Don't miss it!