CLoT - Chorley Library of Things

23/02/2026

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday 23rd) we're having a Zoom meeting at 7.30pm to discuss the Library of Things and get things moving along.

If you'd like to join, send us a message and we'll send you the link

20/01/2026

To set up the Library there are things we need to work out:
- What's our vision?
- Who will we serve?
- What will we stock?
- When will we open?
- How much, if anything, will we charge?

If you'd like a say or have some other involvement in setting up the library would you consider joining our Whatsapp group? It's where we're going to plan get togethers and knock ideas about. If you want to give your input the link is https://chat.whatsapp.com/C0qFtSD10JDIwOatxzVIW9?mode=gi_t

19/01/2026

Manchester Library of Things are another nearby LoT, the tagline on their website "Your local community shed: full of things you need, but don’t want to buy" sums up neatly what we're trying to achieve in Chorley too.

14/01/2026

Here's another example of a Library that's up and running, Reading Library of Things

12/01/2026

The next Library of Things we wanted to share is Share Shed - A Library of Things

Unusually this Devon based Library is mobile. Could this be a model to emulate in Chorley?

If Chorley's library were mobile it would mean that it could be accessed by residents in the many villages around Chorley, not just those who can get to the town centre and back with borrowed items. What do you think?

11/01/2026

We're going to share example of Libraries of Things that are already up so that you can see what we're aiming to set up.

Today it's the turn of Borrow It Blackpool. Find out more about them from the link in the comments (putting links in posts themselves affects reach due)

07/01/2026

Happy New Year!

Could 2026 be the year we launch?

To get the library of things going we need to put together a team to get things going - you needn't commit a huge amount of time. We need people who can help us with marketing/publicity, organising and admin, social media, running sessions, looking after the things in the library and more.

A few of us are hoping to visit Borrow It Blackpool to find out how they run their library - get in touch if you'd be interested in that trip.

06/12/2025

We had an initial meeting this morning and started working out how to make a library of things happen for Chorley.

We're going to organise a visit to Borrow It Blackpool to find out how they make their library work and hopefully speak to organisers of other libraries.

We've set up a WhatsApp Community to try and bring interested people together to organise these things. If you'd like to be part of that group please send us a message.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

28/11/2025

I've seen and heard quite a lot of interest in creating a library of things for Chorley lately which is really gratifying but it won't happen if we can't put together a team to get it going, so...

Don't forget that we're having an initial meeting at The Bees on Saturday December 6th at 10am.

Please let us know if you're planning to come so we know if we have enough space

To get the Library of Things going we need to put together a group of people who can make it happen.

We're suggesting holding an initial meeting for people who are interested at 10am on the 6th December at The Bees Country Kitchen.

By coming you're not committing yourself to anything but hopefully you'll meet like minded people who are just as excited about creating Chorley's own library of things.

Please let us know if you intend to come so we can make sure there is space for us all.

12/11/2025

To get the Library of Things going we need to put together a group of people who can make it happen.

We're suggesting holding an initial meeting for people who are interested at 10am on the 6th December at The Bees Country Kitchen.

By coming you're not committing yourself to anything but hopefully you'll meet like minded people who are just as excited about creating Chorley's own library of things.

Please let us know if you intend to come so we can make sure there is space for us all.

07/10/2025

Share Shed is a mobile library of things. Is this a model that could work across the borough of Chorley?

https://www.facebook.com/shareshedmobile

✅Access useful items at low cost from the world's first mobile library of things, in Devon (UK). A project of the Network of Wellbeing.