Service

Wellingborough Library is a large, busy library in the heart of town. In addition to having a large selection of fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and audio books available to borrow the library also offers a wide range of services to customers. 

• Printing, photocopying and scanning
• Computer use
• Room hire for meetings and training events
• Study space
• Children and family activities
• Craft and chatter group
• Reading group
• Bus pass and Blue Badge application support
• Opportunities for volunteering

There is disabled access via a lift and disabled toilets.

The library has a very active Friends group who are a group of people who value the role of the Library and help create a Library Service that works for the whole community. The Friends hold various events to raise money for additional resources at the library such as children’s handwashing unit and crafting materials. To get involved please visit the library to find out more about joining the Friends.

Opening hours

You will find them at Pebble Lane, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1AS. Please follow their Facebook page for information about their activities.

Access For All Wellingborough Northants aims to improve practical access to use the town facilities and public transport. One of their priorities is to make wheelchair accessible taxis more available and to ensure ramps are provided where required.​

Group leader Aran Whiting said “if you are disabled, providers of public transport must not treat you less favorably than they would treat a person who isn’t disabled. Unless, they can show that the treatment is justified, they have the same duties as other providers of services.​”

The group is there to give disabled people a voice, appealing to businesses to make reasonable adjustments in shops restaurants and public transport services. It’s also there to assist with access issues in surrounding areas too.

For more information or to report an access issue, look at the Access For All page, join the Facebook Group or contact Access For All via email.

Wellie Wombles are a litter picking group that work in partnership with Wellingborough Eco Group. They started on Facebook by Freddie Harris in February 2021, as a Wellingborough and East Northamptonshire group of Northants Litter Wombles. Both groups have been set up to encourage people to litter pick.

Wellie Wombles are individual litter pickers who, like the TV Characters, go Wombling free tidying up after the everyday people. They do suggest that Wombles start near where you live but can litter pick whenever they want to, and pretty much wherever they want to. As a group they simply offer help, supplies and guidance, plus give litter pickers the chance to share photos with each other of what has been picked on the Wellie Wombles Facebook group.

Wellie Wombles regularly litter pick 100+ bags a month just in Wellingborough and have filled 60 bags so far this month already! Maybe you have seen a Wellie Womble or two tidying up your local area, or have seen one of those red bags at the side of the road? Wellie Wombles also join in the Wellingborough Eco Group ‘Two Hour Tidy Up’ every month, tidying up local parks and public spaces.

Freddie is also busy working behind the scenes and has had some great success stories, including engaging with local schools and young people on the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, by setting up local neighbourhood hubs where people can borrow our litter pickers and hoops; and with local business, to get them to take up litter picking. He is always engaging with supporters over to see if they would like to do some picking too.

To help you, they have teamed up with Glamis Hall every Tuesday afternoon for Tuesday Tidy Ups, with Wellingborough Library Monday to Saturday and with Wellingborough Norse Monday to Friday; to loan litter pickers, hi-vis and hoops, and to give away bags. Equipment and bags are to be collected from one of the above locations, equipment is to be returned on the same day; and bags left for Wellingborough Norse by a public highway or at Glamis Hall on Tuesdays for collection. To get bags collected, simply report them on their website. You can also purchase a variety of pickers and hoops from them at their Tuesday Tidy Ups.

Find out more about Wellie Wombles on their webpage or join the Wellie Wombles Facebook group.

Introducing a local community centre and charity that is working hard to achieve their goal of being a community centre that is run by the community for the community. Paula Elmore and Marion Lamont have recently taken over the management of the Hemmingwell Community and Skills Centre CIO with two general assistants. Paula and Marion are both trustees who give their time freely and are supported by their wonderful volunteers and other trustees, who all help to keep the centre open and running smoothly.

The centre is recovering from a couple of difficult years (as many others are) and Paula and Marion are hoping to improve the centre, and attract more groups to help enhance peoples’ lives around the area. These groups could be older residents’ groups and coffee mornings, mother and toddler groups, home education groups and more, watch this space as they grow. These and many more exciting things are happening now:

• Fit & Fed local children can come and have fun in the school holidays through exercise, with qualified instructors. They also do crafts and get hot meals for themselves and their families.
• Nest Youth Club on Mondays 4 to 6pm
• The Compound Our Trustee, Kam works his magic all over Northamptonshire! Based in the centre, he works educating and mentoring young people through exercise and music. He also has raised funds for calisthenic bars to be placed outside in Hemmingwell, where he can often be found training and talking to our young people.
• Elmore Education has a learning room in the centre, where Paula teaches vulnerable young people who can’t be in school for any reason.
• Bingo evenings on Wednesdays, run by the new Hemmingwell Residents’ Association.
• Seventh Evangelist Church on Saturday mornings

• Shudan Martial Arts run by Jeff Gonsalves are regular users of the centre for young leader and self defence classes
• Arts and Culture with Made for Many for young people.
• Employment Training with Goodwill Solutions CIC bring courses to the centre to help local residents build their working potential and enhance their lives.
• Food Bank (sponsored by Goodwill Solutions CIC) on Tuesdays at 1.30pm to 3.30pm, with extra parcels available to help those in need throughout the week.
• Police Local PCSOs have an office at the centre, helping with events such as ‘Safer Streets’ initiative.
• NN8 Off the Streets have placed a bleed kit at the centre and are working with their trustee, Kam, in to schools to help educate our children in the fight against knife crime

The centre’s wonderful hall and separate meeting room are available to hire for community events, parties, functions and meetings, both during the week and at weekends. This is at a discounted rate for local residents. The centre also hosts parties for the community, including a Christmas party this Saturday that has completely sold out!

Open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday, visit Hemmingwell Community and Skills Centre CIO at 119 Nest Farm Crescent, Hemmingwell NN8 4TU Wellingborough, there is car parking at the rear of the building, or call 01933 405595.

Glamis Hall consists of a wellbeing centre for the over 50s, a large sports hall with a kitchen and servery, a community meeting room, and sports changing rooms. After being closed by Wellingborough Borough Council in 2014, Glamis Hall reopened as a charity run by volunteers and relatives of clients in January 2015. The Hall’s many daily visitors, who range in age from 51 to 103, help to decide the programming.

The wellbeing centre’s regular activities include a Monday to Friday lunch club, yoga, raffles, and bingo. They have a shop on site and host visits from hairdressers, optometrists and district nurses– making it easy for their clients to access the services they need with minimal travel.

Glamis Hall’s mission is to provide an affordable community hub for the residents of the Borough of Wellingborough and the surrounding areas. Glamis Hall is run for the community, by the community. Home to the day centre for older people, a youth club, football and GLJ Theatre. Hall & rooms for hire, use their Contact Us page or call to check pricing and availability. Free parking is available or take the W1 bus from Church Street in the Town Centre.

Address
 Glamis Hall
 Goldsmith Road,
 Wellingborough,
 NN8 3RU

Telephone – 01933 677326

Website – https://www.glamishall.org.uk/