Sanderstead Campaign

Campaign group to save Sanderstead Library in Croydon. We believe that we need to maintain a properly staffed service. Part of @savecroydonlibs

[Michael Quinn @miqui21147]

Save Croydon's libraries! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/OLmIHKFfYk via @UKChange

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

London Borough of Culture
2019 - Waltham Forest
2020 - Brent
2022 - Lewisham
2023 - Croydon
2025 - Wandsworth
2027 - Haringey
All have (or plan to) cut, close or outsource libraries.
Are Public Libraries not a part of their culture offer?
#mylocalculture

[SaveCroydonLibraries @SaveCroydonLibs]

Not a spare penny to promote Croydon's ailing libraries but.... new Arts and Culture post up for grabs! https://t.co/CXmjZwDC3t via @SaveCroydonLibs

[Elizabeth Ash (she/her) @ElizCro]

... This is one of the Croydon libraries the council wants to close. It makes no sense!

And people still unaware that Croydon libraries are under threat.😢

[Elizabeth Ash (she/her) @ElizCro]

FOURTH trip to libraries and finally got my hands on some of Croydon's library consultation docs.

Local library that they want to close buzzing with activity - families chatting and reading, young people studying, people using the PCs, lots of borrowing nd returns...

[Paul Ainscough @paulainscough]

Remember this? Tories failing this time #croydon #Sanderstead #library

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

Plaid Cymru Wales welcomes return of community library
https://t.co/z2DDIf2NeE
They’re pleased about a few shelves of books in a community hall managed by volunteers that’s only open for 5.5hrs one day a week, oh sorry it must be the 3D printer 🙄
#libraries
#volunteerism

[The Library Campaign @LibraryCampaign]

CROYDON - HUNT FOR THE CONSULTATION!

[John Woodhouse @JohnWoo95653412]

Save Croydon's libraries! https://t.co/Fo5OspR5qw via @UKChange

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

“of encouraging both adults and children to make full use of the library service, and of providing advice as to its use and of making available such bibliographical and other information as may be required by persons using it;”
Staffless opening doesn’t achieve this.
#libraries

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

Offloading Public Libraries to volunteers is a tragic short-term ‘solution’ to a long-term crisis.
Public Libraries have been around since 1850, they are a statutory service.
We need sustainable funding & staffing not closure by stealth.
#savelibraries

[Rowenna Davis @RowennaDavis]

17p of every pound of your money is spent on Croydon’s debt. That’s instead of urgent needs like safe streets or child services.

Croydon needs a deal now with national government so we can fix this.

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

A question for all the retired professionals now running closed libraries;
Would you have backed offloading your service/profession to volunteers?
Volunteer Barristers?
Volunteer Doctors?
Volunteer Accountants?
Volunteer Teachers?
#libraries
#volunteerism

[SaveCroydonLibraries @SaveCroydonLibs]

@ElizCro And other RAs in #Croydon pushing for just two days a week opening for the local public library?

Is this really what Sanderstead library users want?

@SaveSanderstead
@SandersteadLCG

[Sanderstead Campaign @SandersteadLCG]

🤔
Advertising the severely reduced hours at our library rather than fighting for greater opening hours, but then the RA has never campaigned for the library in all the years it’s been under threat

[Yvette Hopley @YvetteHopley]

Sanderstead Library Banners | Croydon Conservatives https://t.co/u9vjGMlh8e Thank you Sanderstead Residents' Association

[SaveCroydonLibraries @SaveCroydonLibs]

LAST DAY to contribute to the Croydon libraries consultation.

We believe ALL libraries should be open and properly staffed. The savings should be found from elsewhere

https://t.co/gKTlg9ilnS

#savelibraries

Respond before MIDNIGHT! (26 July)

[Sanderstead Campaign @SandersteadLCG]

No mention of this at the library or on the Council’s website. You need to be on Twitter to find out!

Croydon certainly knows how to promote libraries, don’t they? 🙄

[Croydon Libraries @CroydonLibs]

Select & Collect will be available on Mondays at Shirley Library from 17 May and on Fridays at Sanderstead Library from 21 May. You can reserve your items now. #lovelibraries #librariesfromhome #libraryatyourfingertips #lovetoread
@yourcroydon @MuseumOfCroydon

[SaveCroydonLibraries @SaveCroydonLibs]

Be very careful in Sanderstead today if you go out to vote. Sanderstead library cannot open tomorrow as no updated risk assessment but is fully open today as a polling station, with residents allowed inside the library to vote.

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

My advice to Library Friends/Campaign Groups is join the @LibraryCampaign and link in with the other groups across the country. Their magazine/website is full of useful and interesting info and their chair @lswaffield1 is a walking encyclopaedia of campaigning/libraries.

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

If library services, housing services, social services etc etc were all properly funded/staffed there wouldn’t be any need for ‘community hubs’, all these services have been slashed to the bone so there are less funds/resources, buildings & staff.
It ain’t innovative it’s cuts 🤷‍♀️