V4GCL at Gainsborough Community Library

V4GCL at Gainsborough Community Library Voices for Gainsborough Community Library (V4GCL) supports Gainsborough Community Library, Clapgate

Aims and Objectives of V4GCL

To promote the use of libraries and support library staff in Suffolk and specifically Gainsborough Community Library by any of the following

•Developing co-operation between libraries and its communities and ensuring all sections of the community have a voice within this

•Facilitating communication between local people and their local library in an empowering way


•Encouraging use of the library by underrepresented groups

•Helping to recruit and organise volunteers for specific purposes to support the library and the running of the voices café

•Fundraising, obtaining sponsorship and donations, through events and the voices café

•Helping to safeguard the future of libraries and develop innovations in service delivery

Are you a performer? We want YOU!On the 22nd August we are celebrating Gainsborough Community Library’s 90th birthday! W...
02/06/2026

Are you a performer? We want YOU!

On the 22nd August we are celebrating Gainsborough Community Library’s 90th birthday!
We are celebrating this by doing a music filled fun day!
Now we can’t have a music day without music.

So! We are running an open mic sessions from 2.30 till 6PM! This is designed for new acts who want to get their names out there! If you would like to sign up for this please press on the link below!

Also…
We are looking for music acts that can offer their time from 6pm! We already have the kind Andre Smith performing for us so why not join in on the fun!
To register please email us at [email protected]

Who would you like to see perform at our event?
Tag away below.

Thanks for your continued support!
Open mic form:

Please answer all the questions below and we can accommodate to the best of our ability! Any problems please get in contact with us either through the V4GCL FB page or email us at [email protected]!

Our kindness racks are running short of adults clothes donations. If you have any clean clothes that you do not want/nee...
29/05/2026

Our kindness racks are running short of adults clothes donations.

If you have any clean clothes that you do not want/need anymore and are happy to donate to us then please drop off to Gainsborough Community Library and place on our racks near the toilets.

If you have any spare hangers to donate then these would be greatfully accepted.

If you have any tote bags that you don't use/need, Gainsborough Community Library fruit and veg pop up shop would apprec...
29/05/2026

If you have any tote bags that you don't use/need, Gainsborough Community Library fruit and veg pop up shop would appreciate these.

If you use our library pop up shop, could you please check your cupboards for any of our tote bags, bags like in the photo below or any other bags we have used and drop back to us.

Could you please kindly bring a bag to transfer your fruit and veg on a Thursday morning, to help us gather back in enough tote bags to make up the following weeks fruit and veg.

If you know any company or organisation that has tote bags they give away with their logos on for advertising, it would be appreciated if you could ask if they would kindly donate us some.

Thank you for all your support.

Gainsborough Community Library plea- if you have any of our bags like these 1s or tote bags, please can you bring these back to us asap so we can continue to run fruit and veg pop up shop as we are very short again and we have purchased over 1000 bags. As you can imagine these are quite costly to us and means we can give less to community.

26/05/2026

Now for our 90th birthday celebration on August 22nd excluding our fantastic open mic performers (theres still a chance to sign up!) we have the fabulous Andre Smith performing for us in the evening and we are now looking for more charitable bands/singers that can dedicate their time for this marvellous event! If you can provide your services please comment below or email us at [email protected]
Thanks for your support and keep tagging away who you would like to see at our 90th birthday celebration! 🥳 Gainsborough Community Library

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25/05/2026

We are only 7 followers away from 200 followers! If you can please share this page so we can connect with more of Facebook!
Thank you for your support!

Do you like singing? Do you like performing or dancing? Well this is your chance to shine! 🌟🎤🎨On the 22nd of August we a...
25/05/2026

Do you like singing? Do you like performing or dancing?
Well this is your chance to shine! 🌟🎤🎨
On the 22nd of August we are hosting Gainsborough Community Library's 90th Birthday Celebration! On that day we are offering 30 min slots for performers to show their talent to the community from 2.30PM - 6PM! We would love to see your talent shine through the help of you and our community! If you require a PA system or music played for your performance, feel free to get in contact with us and we will support you the best we can! If you would like to sign up, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL7kZ-SBwOyxpa5-urO48aCrCKfr7TCLwmlXzkUID-2OEPtw/viewform?usp=dialog
Best be quick as spaces are limited and filling up quickly!!
Thanks for your continued support! 😁

Please answer all the questions below and we can accommodate to the best of our ability! Any problems please get in contact with us either through the V4GCL FB page or email us at [email protected]!

22/05/2026

Its Gainsborough Community Library 90th birthday 🎂 this year and V4GCL want to put on a special event to celebrate this.

What do you love about our library? We love to hear these.

Do you know anybody famous with connections to Ipswich or our library that would be willing to attend and help us celebrate? Please ask them for us and let us know.

We are looking at combining this celebration with our annual music event this year on August 22nd - so please save the date in your calendars.

Who would you like to see perform? Tag them below.

Would you be interested in a slot on our open mic session?

Please let us know in the comments or contact us on [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support.

22/05/2026

V4GCL are looking at holding a health and wellbeing afternoon/evening later on this year Gainsborough Community Library and wondered if you all could help us find some organisations, therapists and instructors that might be interested in offering their services to our community, promote what they do and bring everyone together.

Please tag them in the comments or get them to contact us at [email protected] so that we can let them know the confirmed details as soon as we have them. We are thinking first week or so of October.

Thank you for your continued support.

Are you into the Tv Show “The Traitors”? Well this is for you! This murder mystery style game can go from innocent disco...
21/05/2026

Are you into the Tv Show “The Traitors”? Well this is for you!
This murder mystery style game can go from innocent discoveries to mischievous murders!
Will the townsfolk win and stop the Demon and his minions?
Find out at Blood on the Clocktower!!

Gainsborough Community Library

We have 5 spaces left for our Blood on the Clocktower event tomorrow night 6:30pm-10pm.

Book a space now, £3 per person😃

20/05/2026

I have been looking into different dance sessions we could offer at Gainsborough Community Library.
We have the opportunity of offering Adult street dance sessions with CDC Street Dance but we just wanted to see how much interest there would be in these sessions before confirming.

Please let us know if this something you would enjoy to attend in the comments and tag others that might like to attend these sessions too.

If you have any other ideas of sessions you think would be great to have at the library, please let us know and V4GCL will see what they can do.

Thank you for your continued support.

Address

Gainsborough Community Library, Clapgate Lane
Ipswich
IP30RL

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 2am
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10am - 2pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday 1pm - 4pm

Telephone

+441473927270

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