Upcoming events.

Great Big Green Week: Recycling Themed Board Game
Jun
7
to Jun 14

Great Big Green Week: Recycling Themed Board Game

Fancy trying out a new board game?

Bring your friends and family along to the library and discover the characters Yogi, Rey, Dee Dee, Hube and Fitz from The Rescue Me Game. Who knows you may learn some new recycling facts along the way too!

Free drop-in. Aimed at children and their families.

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Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game
Jun
7
to Jun 14

Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game

Fancy trying out a new board game?

Bring your friends and family along to the library and discover the characters Yogi, Rey, Dee Dee, Hube and Fitz from The Rescue Me Game. Who knows you may learn some new recycling facts along the way too!

Free drop-in. Aimed at children and their families.

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Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game
Jun
7
to Jun 14

Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game

Fancy trying out a new board game?

Bring your friends and family along to the library and discover the characters Yogi, Rey, Dee Dee, Hube and Fitz from The Rescue Me Game. Who knows you may learn some new recycling facts along the way too!

Free drop-in. Aimed at children and their families.

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Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game
Jun
7
to Jun 14

Great Big Green Week: Recycling themed board game

Fancy trying out a new board game?

Bring your friends and family along to the library and discover the characters Yogi, Rey, Dee Dee, Hube and Fitz from The Rescue Me Game. Who knows you may learn some new recycling facts along the way too!

Free drop-in. Aimed at children and their families.

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Step inside BFI Replay and the East Anglian Film Archive
Jun
11

Step inside BFI Replay and the East Anglian Film Archive

Discover more about the work of film archives and learn how collections are being made available for you to watch, research, and enjoy.

Watch some gems from the archive and hear how the British Film Institute and the East Anglian Film Archive digitise thousands of videos and television programmes, culminating in BFI Replay.

Free event, donations welcome.

Please book in St Neots Library or email stneots.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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Design your own tote bag
Jun
11

Design your own tote bag

Use your creative skills to design your own tote bag using fabric pens and stencils.

£5  Adults only. Booking required. Ask at Yaxley Library, call 0345 045 5225 or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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Father's Day Crafts
Jun
14

Father's Day Crafts

Let your Dad or someone special know you care by making them a card and decorating a personalised cork coaster.

This craft event is suitable for children aged 4 years +.

£2 per child.  Booking is advised as places are limited.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, ask a member of staff, call: 0345 045 5225 or email: Huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Great Big Green Week - storytime and craft
Jun
14

Great Big Green Week - storytime and craft

Drop in to our Great Big Green Week storytime, listen to Jack and the Beanstalk and other nature based stories, then join us to plant a bean and craft your own giant’s castle plant topper!

Free event, donations welcome.

Suitable for pre-schoolers - 8 years, adult supervision required at all times.

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Father's Day Photo Frames
Jun
14

Father's Day Photo Frames

Let your imagination run wild as you decorate your very own DAD photo frame.

Suitable for children aged 4+. Booking is essential.

£2 per child. All children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information please ask library staff, call 0345 045 5225 or email Huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Engage: Gardening, Climate Change and Us
Jun
18

Engage: Gardening, Climate Change and Us

Climate change is having a major impact on gardens, plants and wildlife. Clive Boase from Climate Change Gardening is visiting us to talk about these effects, and, most importantly, what we can do with our gardens to make a difference.

Free drop-in session followed by refreshments.

Donations welcome.

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International Board Games evening at St Neots Library
Jun
18

International Board Games evening at St Neots Library

Do you like board games? We have a range of games, including Scrabble, pick-up sticks, chess, Azul, Jungle Speed and Chinese checkers (Sternhalma) and Hong Kong Pictionary. You are also welcome to bring your own game. Spread the word and bring some friends along for a fun evening!

Age: Adults and younger people aged 12+

Drop-in. Free. Donations welcome. 

For enquiries, please email stneots.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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Engage: Bees in the Garden
Jul
3

Engage: Bees in the Garden

Join us for a talk on our native species of bees and pollinators. Focussing on the honey bee - taste the honey they produce and be amazed by their intriguing life. We’ll discuss advice on bee friendly plants, and alternatives to the use of chemicals in the garden.

FREE talk (donations welcome). Adults only. Booking required. Ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 A Care Together event, creating a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.

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Under the Sea Craft
Jul
5

Under the Sea Craft

Ahoy there!

Pop into the library and make a shark or sea creature hat that will terrify your friends and family.  Drop in session, no need to book.

£1 per head.

Children need to be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, please ask a member of staff, call: 0345 045 5225 or email: Huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Starfish Craft
Jul
5

Starfish Craft

Join us for a morning of under-the-sea crafting where you will make a starfish bead decoration.

Suitable for children aged 4+. Booking is essential. £2 per child. All children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information please ask library staff, call 0345 045 5225 or email huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk 

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Engage: Bees in the Garden
Aug
13

Engage: Bees in the Garden

Join us for a talk on our native species of bees and pollinators. Focussing on the honey bee - taste the honey they produce and be amazed by their intriguing life. We’ll discuss advice on bee friendly plants, and alternatives to the use of chemicals in the garden.

FREE talk (donations welcome). Adults only.

Booking required. Ask at Sawtry Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

 

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Father's Day Crafts
Jun
7

Father's Day Crafts

Let your Dad or someone special know you care by making them a card and decorating a personalised cork coaster.

This craft event is suitable for children aged 4 years +.

£2 per child.  Booking is advised as places are limited.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, ask a member of staff, call: 0345 045 5225 or email: Huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Local and Community History Month: Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society -  Family History Research Session
Jun
7

Local and Community History Month: Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society - Family History Research Session

If you are looking to start tracing your family history and don’t know where to begin, or need some help with an

elusive ancestor - do come and see our friendly volunteers from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society. You never know what you might discover...

 FREE Drop-in session.  No need to book.

 

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Engage: Father and Son
Jun
5

Engage: Father and Son

Discover the life of William Rhodes Moorhouse, the first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the great War, and his son ‘Willy’ who flew during the Battle of Britain. Both remarkable men and heroes of the nation, although there are dark corners to William’s story. Make up your own mind at the end! He divides opinion! 

Speaker Roger Leivers

FREE talk (donations welcome). Adults only.

Booking required. Ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Image: William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, The War Illustrated, 10 July 1915

A Care Together event, creating a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.

 

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Local and Community History Month: Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and the Civil Wars
May
31

Local and Community History Month: Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and the Civil Wars

Explore the story of two families, a grand mansion and a town, during the most tumultuous period in British history, and learn how Huntingdon was a microcosm of the experience of the country through the Civil Wars. This talk includes royal visits, battles, plague, witchcraft, the most famous diarist in our history… and a monkey.

Free talk. Adults only. Booking essential.

For information ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Local and Community History Month: Cromwell Crafts - create an heraldic crest 
May
30

Local and Community History Month: Cromwell Crafts - create an heraldic crest 

Join the Cromwell Museum at Huntingdon Library during May half-term to discover the history of Huntingdon and create your own Town Crest.

FREE - drop in activity, no booking required.

For ages 6+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For information ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Please note the same children’s event will also be at Huntingdon Library on Wednesday 28th May, 10.30am - 12.30pm

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Writing the Non-Human: A Nature Poetry & Prose Workshop @ Cherry Hinton Library
May
28

Writing the Non-Human: A Nature Poetry & Prose Workshop @ Cherry Hinton Library

Join Anglia Ruskin University for this free creative writing workshop!

Join Anglia Ruskin University creative writing lecturers Tim Jarvis and Jon Stone for a series of simple nature-writing exercises: see the world afresh from the perspective of animals, plants, earth and stone.

This event is for adults. Free and all welcome but booking required.

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Local and Community History Month: Cromwell Crafts - create an heraldic crest
May
28

Local and Community History Month: Cromwell Crafts - create an heraldic crest

Join the Cromwell Museum at Huntingdon Library during May half-term to discover the history of Huntingdon and create your own Town Crest.

FREE - drop in activity, no booking required.

For ages 6+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For information ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 Please note the same children’s event will also be at Huntingdon Library on Friday 30th May, 10.30am - 12.30pm

 

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Let's sign! Introduction to British Sign Language at St Neots Library
May
27

Let's sign! Introduction to British Sign Language at St Neots Library

Break the communication barrier. Pick up a new skill this half-term. Let’s learn the BSL alphabet together! It’s easier than you think. 

Age: Adults, teenagers and children aged 9+ 

Drop-in. Limited spaces. First come, first served. 

Free. Donations welcome. 

Accessibility information: St Neots Library is wheelchair accessible. There is an accessible toilet and private baby-changing facilities on site. Blue badge holder parking spaces are available at the car park next to the library. For full details of St Neots Library’s facilities, visit: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/directory/listings/st-neots-library 

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Terrific Tiles
May
27

Terrific Tiles

Get creative designing and decorating your own tile using special paint pens!

This craft event is suitable for children aged 4 years +.

£2 per child.  Booking is advised as places are limited.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, ask a member of staff, call: 0345 045 5225 or email: Huntingdon.referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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Assisted Dying: Live screening panel discussion
May
25

Assisted Dying: Live screening panel discussion

Living Knowledge: Free live screening from the Hay Festival.

Panel discussion with: Henry Marsh neurosurgeon, author who defends a right to euthanasia; Sonia Sodha a journalist whose recent exploration of assisted dying for the BBC led her to change her mind to now oppose it; Lord Sumption historian and former Supreme Court judge and Alex Goodman KC a barrister specialising in human rights. 

 Free drop in session. Starts at 1pm prompt.

Adult event.

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Local and Community History Month Talk: Post Office Terrace,  Photography Studio
May
24

Local and Community History Month Talk: Post Office Terrace, Photography Studio

Come and hear about Cambridge's longest running photograph studio, and the various photographers that have had the business - including women photographers Ramsey and Muspratt.

FREE talk (donations welcome). Adults only.

Booking required. Ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or

email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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Incredible Dinosaurs: Live screening with Andy Day and Steve Lenton
May
24

Incredible Dinosaurs: Live screening with Andy Day and Steve Lenton

Living Knowledge Network: Free live screening from the Hay Festival.

Enter the prehistoric world with children’s TV superstar Andy Day and bestselling illustrator Steven Lenton on a fantastic magical dino-tastic adventure! Get ready to sing, draw, laugh and learn about some incredible dinosaurs. 

Free drop in session. Starts at 10am prompt.

Aimed at families with children aged 4+

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Local and Community History Month: The Whitney Collection - Photographs of a Bygone Huntingdonshire
May
17

Local and Community History Month: The Whitney Collection - Photographs of a Bygone Huntingdonshire

Join us for a short talk on the photographic firm of Maddison and Hinde, established in Huntingdon in the 1850s, then visit our searchroom to view a selection of photographs from this fascinating collection.

FREE (donations welcome).

Places are limited. Booking required. Ask at Huntingdon Library,

call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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