Birmingham Loves Libraries @BrumLibraries
Uniting campaigns across Birmingham for a publicly owned and professionally staffed community library service. Keep our libraries open! birminghamloveslibraries.org Birmingham Joined May 2024-
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From Jan 24 - Sep 24, the 6 Gov appointed commissioners were paid £803k in salary and expenses. All paid for by the Birmingham CC tax payer 🤯 they even get accommodation & meals paid for. If you can’t pay for your own food on a salary of £1100 a day 🤦🏼♂️ we’re being shafted.
@Ms_SThompson keep all Birmingham's Libraries open! That is the very best tribute @BrumLabour could pay to Benjamin Zephaniah, not meaningless words and platitudes. #SaveOurLibraries
“Every library represents a piece of us. Don't let them take us apart, piece by piece, book by book. In times when we need to get together we need our libraries more & more.” Benjamin Zephaniah @BrumLibraries @BrumLibraryZine @HallgreenSave @BirminghamPeopA @BrumLabour
Appalling to visit Harborne Day Centre today and see the place being stripped out by @BhamCityCouncil while highly vulnerable service users continue to use it. What kind of organisation behaves in this way? @joanneroney @RobPocock1 @PreetKGillMP @Harborne_Jayne @BrumLabour
Harborne Day Centre carers meeting earlier today. It’s disgraceful what’s going on whilst all the citizens are still there @PreetKGillMP @larry_turner @AlistairCarns @BrumLeader @RobPocock1
Brilliant piece by @MarkGoughITV @ITVCentral tonight on @BhamCityCouncil’s overpayments into the West Mids Pension Fund. @johnclancy @room_151 @JaneRockHouse @marymcdougall13 a short thread.
Gove-appointed Max 🪓Caller literally used the Powers of the Secretary of State even to stop @BhamCityCouncil’s own powers of scrutiny.
@BrumLibraries has provided a commentary on the current library proposals which has been sent to the members of the @BhamCityCouncil Neighbourhoods Overview & Scrutiny Committee to inform their consideration of the proposals. You can read them here: birminghamloveslibraries.org/post/overview-…
If you’re able to get along to this public meeting about Birmingham’s libraries on Thursday 4.30-6, please do!
PUBLIC MEETING Let’s talk about libraries Thursday 16th January, 4.30-6pm At The Old Print Works Moseley Road Balsall Heath Birmingham B12 9AH
Demo against swinging Birmingham City Council cuts on 28th January midday outside the council house. It may be 2025 but nothing’s changed since 2024 or for the last 14 years for that matter and all we get is yet more austerity. Say #NoMoreCuts #BrumRiseUp
One of the treasures Brum library lovers have made to present to a @BhamCityCouncil Cabinet Member ahead of their crucial vote on the future of our libraries this month. The treasure can be kept or gifted to a library or library staff. instagram.com/p/DEwgJVvIJRa/ @Craftivists
PUBLIC MEETING Let’s talk about libraries Thursday 16th January, 4.30-6pm At The Old Print Works Moseley Road Balsall Heath Birmingham B12 9AH
"Some 175 years after the Public Libraries Act, libraries remain critical for promoting literacy, particularly among those with less access to books at home. It is a sad reflection of austerity that so many public libraries have closed….” theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…
Hi @PreetKGillMP, any chance of pressing @BhamCityCouncil for a response to your letter? These are important questions which should have been addressed during the botched libraries consultation, but weren’t. @BrumLibraries @HallgreenSave @BrumLabour @Cllr_suleman
PUBLIC MEETING Let’s talk about libraries Thursday 16th January, 4.30-6pm At The Old Print Works Moseley Road Balsall Heath Birmingham B12 9AH
@martinibrooks @PreetKGillMP @BhamCityCouncil @BrumLabour I’d strongly encourage @PreetKGillMP to stand up to her govt, pause the cuts, replace the lead commissioner Max 🪓 Caller, and call for a recertification of the west Mids pension fund urgently.
We do not feel that Birmingham City Council has understood our concerns. We do not feel that they have tried to protect the most vulnerable. We once again call for the cuts to stop. This city does not need another austerity budget.
Political Reporter @LewisJWarner reports on libraries and community centres set to close in Birmingham after the council has announced cuts in their funding Watch the full report on @ITVX: itv.com/watch/news/can…
Has your councillor spent their £40k (each) on improving local streets? We've launched a councillor survey to find out if they've spent their money and their experience of spending it. It's in councillor's inboxes now. Please remind yours to fill it in by 31 January!
Maybe its because I'm away from Birmingham for Christmas so can look in with a bit of distance... But I don't think i've ever felt so exasperated by the city authorities and its almost complete lack of care about anything that makes living here interesting or unique.
Libraries across the city have been suffering additional closures - Harborne Library has been forced to close an extra day each week for months. All part of the managed decline of a vital community resource. @Cllr_suleman @BrumLibraries @BirminghamPeopA @HallgreenSave
Library still 'temporarily' closed two years later bbc.in/3DxsVI4
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