Library events

Find an event near you

We have a whole host of events running at our libraries across the Wakefield district. Find the latest events happening at your local library.

For more information and to book on WordFest events please visit experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/wordfest/

For more information and to book on Our Year events please visit experiencewakefield.co.uk/our-year-2024/

Filter By
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
22 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Checkmates - Pontefract Library Junior Chess Club
Pontefract Library
22 Feb 2025
Details: Drop in chess club for under 16's. Make new friends and learn the worlds greatest game.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Lego/Crafts
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Drop in crafts and lego sessions every Saturday. Test out your building skills with our large selection of lego, then use your creative side to craft something wonderful. Contact Castleford Library 01977 722 085

Start time: 10am
End time: 2pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Fun Saturday (Games and Lego)
Horbury Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us every Saturday for a morning of fun with Games and Lego. Contact: horburylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 303060

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Horbury Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Lego
Wakefield One Library and Museum
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along to our Saturday Morning Lego Hour. Contact: 01924 305376 or wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Active Minds
Airedale Library
22 Feb 2025
Details: A social group for adults with quizzes, puzzles and a natter
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Saturday Family Crafts
Stanley Library
22 Feb 2025
Details: Family crafts is a time to visit the library and make something special to take home. We provide all materials, instructions, and a helping hand, allowing kids to colour and create a variety of fun. Contact Stanley Library on 01924 33130. or email stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Crafts
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Drop-in crafts session for all the family.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12:30pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Prize Bingo
Featherstone Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Weekly prize bingo

 

Great way to meet new friends 

£1 to play refreshments provided

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Teenagers, Seniors
Free: No
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Councillors Surgery
Featherstone Library
22 Feb 2025
Details: A chance to have a chat with the local town councillors.
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Lego
Featherstone Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Lego

 

Get Creative with the Library Mega Blocks or Lego.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Under 5s, Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Hemsworth Art Group
Hemsworth Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Unleash your creativity at our newest creative venture at Hemsworth Library. Our art group is the perfect chance to practice your skills, try something new and meet new people.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Discover Your Family History
Stanley Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Delve into your family history with an ancestry session at Stanley Library. Was one of your relatives famous, or infamous? Find out at Stanley Library!

Start time: 10am
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Coffee Morning
Ossett Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Coffee morning with jigsaws & board games.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families, Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Gnome Grown Craft Activity
Wakefield One Library and Museum
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Drop in to Wakefield Library and take part in our Gnome grown craft activity to celebrate the Rhubarb festival.

For more information contact Wakefield Library: 01924 305376      email: wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk 

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Family Craft Club
Hemsworth Library
22 Feb 2025
Details:

Bring the family along as our Friends Group provide fun in the form of crafting, beading, knitting, colouring, and pretty much anything else you want! Suitable for all ages.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
23 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Airedale Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Storytime and Rhyme sessions aimed at children under 5
Start time: 9:30am
End time: 10am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Computer Help
Normanton Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Drop-in sessions, using the library computers. Assistance from a volunteer, or library staff if required. Contact any of the team at Normanton Library T: 01924 302525 Email: normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Hemsworth Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Under 5's storytime and craft. TERM TIME ONLY 

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Pontefract Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Join us for a fun-filled session of stories, songs, and activities.
Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Monday Morning Crafts
Wakefield One Library and Museum
24 Feb 2025
Details: Join our weekly craft group to create something simple, stylish, and pretty with a new twist each week all whilst having a chat
Start time: 10am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Walking Group
Hemsworth Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Join a walk of usually 1-2 hours to improve your mood, reduce stress, make new friends, and just enjoy the countryside.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
calendarIcon
Play Scrabble
Pontefract Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Join us every Monday to play Scrabble beginner or expert everybody is very welcome.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Knit and natter South Elmsall Library
South Elmsall Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Bring your own craft, come along and have tea or coffee and chat with people who have similar hobbies. If you want to learn something new then there is someone in the group to help.
Start time: 10am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: South Elmsall Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Castleford Craft Group
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
24 Feb 2025
Details: A group of amateur crafters who come together to enjoy creating and producing art work, decorations, and handmade gifts. All abilities are welcome.
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Adult craft and chat
Featherstone Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

All crafts including card making, cross stitch, knitting, art or just bring your own

Free event

aimed at adults, refreshments provided

Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Active minds
Sandal Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Active minds is aimed at people who enjoy a reminiscence quiz and social interaction.
Start time: 11am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Storytime
Stanley Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us for a fun filled session of stories, song and activities. Come and enjoy a story and play games on our Tovertafel.

Start time: 11am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Bingo
Stanley Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Adult Bingo sessions Every Monday Refreshments available. Contact: stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 303130

Start time: 1pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Craft Group Normanton Library
Normanton Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Informal weekly group. Bring your own WIP, have a chat and a cuppa. Run in partnership with The Well Project. Contact detail: Normanton Library – normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 302525

Start time: 2pm
End time: 4pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
24 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Poetry group
South Elmsall Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Do you like poetry? Do you like writing? Our poetry group meets every month to read through the poetry that they have written on a certain topic. Some are serious topics, and some…..not so serious!

Start time: 2pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: South Elmsall Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Games Afternoon
Hemsworth Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Good games, good coffee and good company. What more do you need for a Monday afternoon? See you there!

Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Sensory Story Time
Ossett Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Sensory story time is a quiet session with additional sensory toys.

Start time: 2pm
End time: 2:30pm
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Jigsaws & Board Games
Ossett Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

A selection of jigsaws & board games for you to enjoy and make new friends.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
CAB Citizens Advice
Ossett Library
24 Feb 2025
Details:

CAB citizen advice weekly session.

Start time: 10am
End time: 4pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Library Strolls
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
24 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along for a gentle walk from Castleford Library around the local area. A chance to become more active and make new friends.

Meet inside the library.

Start time: 12pm
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Storytime
South Elmsall Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Under 5's storytime with rhymes and crafts every Tuesday.

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: South Elmsall Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Garden club
Sandal Library
25 Feb 2025
Details: Group of individuals who enjoy gardening in the library garden.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
25 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Wakefield One Library and Museum
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along and enjoy the fun with stories and rhymes. Booking is not required.

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Craft and Chat
Stanley Library
25 Feb 2025
Details: Adult drop-in craft and chat group. Bring your own crafting project and engage with other crafty adults. Refreshments available. Contact: stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 303130
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Chat and chill
Pontefract Library
25 Feb 2025
Details: Join our friendly group for a chat, refreshments and the odd game or two.
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Dyslexia
Sandal Library
25 Feb 2025
Details: Dyslexia support. Booking is Essential. Please call, 01924 303 355
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: No
Booking required: No
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Community Coffee and Chat
Normanton Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Informal weekly group, aimed at people suffering from Alzheimers and their carers, but everyone is welcome. Run in partnership with Five Towns Primary Care Network, Alzheimers Society and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Advice clinic is run in conjunction with this event. Contact details: Normanton Library – normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 302525

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Wakefield One Library and Museum
25 Feb 2025
Details: Come along and enjoy the fun with stories and rhymes. For further info: Contact 01924 305376 or email wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 1:30pm
End time: 2pm
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Gadget Person
Pontefract Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Having trouble with your tablet? A problem with your phone? Gadget Person is here to help with all your technology queries

Start time: 2pm
End time: 4pm
Age range: Seniors, Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Toddler Tuesday
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
25 Feb 2025
Details:

A weekly toddler session for children from birth to 5.

Runs term time only.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Museum, Second Floor
calendarIcon
Dyslexia
Sandal Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Dyslexia support. Booking is Essential. Please call, 01924 303 355

Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Hemsworth Art Group
Hemsworth Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Unleash your creativity at our newest creative venture at Hemsworth Library. Our art group is the perfect chance to practice your skills, try something new and meet new people.

Start time: 12pm
End time: 1:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Coffee Morning
Ossett Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us for a cuppa and chance to meet new friends.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Adult Crafts
Ossett Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us for crafts, either bring your own or have a go at trying a new craft, meet new friends for a fun morning.

Start time: 11am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Crafts For All
Wakefield One Library and Museum
25 Feb 2025
Details:

First and Third Tuesday of The Month

Bring your own crafting materials.

Share skills and learn new ones in a relaxed and informal setting

01924 305376

wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk

Start time: 10am
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Learning Zone, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Coffee Morning
Airedale Library
25 Feb 2025
Details:

Join our friendly, welcoming coffee morning at Airedale Library. Bring old friends and make new friends. Have a chat and put the world to rights. Enjoy a hot drink and a biscuit. All welcome.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Teenagers, Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Airedale Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Storytime and Rhyme sessions aimed at children under 5
Start time: 9:30am
End time: 10am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Games afternoon
Featherstone Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Come along meet new friends and have a go at a selection of games, chess, scrabble, cards, dominoes, cards, jigsaws refreshments provided On every Wednesday 1-3pm And Thursday 1-3pm Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Health walk
Pontefract Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

An hour's walk around Pontefract to benefit the mind and soul.

Start time: 11am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
One-Stop Shop
Pontefract Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Weekly Councillors: 9.30-10.30 drop-in session for guidance

Health Walk - 11-12 noon 1-hour local walk - Monthly First Wednesday in the month

Health Watch Wakefield - 10-12.30 Here to help get the best from local health and care services

JWP -10-14.00 Come and chat with us about a whole range of legal issues

Penderels Trust -10-12.30 A charity helping people live independently

Start time: 9:30am
End time: 2pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Pontefract Library Baby Morning
Pontefract Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Stories Songs and Play for under 5's
Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Spanish Conversation
Sandal Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Weekly U3A Spanish conversation group.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Storytime
Sandal Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: Storytime aimed at the under 5's. Booking is Essential. Please call, 01924 303 355.
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Knit and natter
Airedale Library
26 Feb 2025
Details: A group designed for likeminded people who have a passion for all things crafty! Bring along your own projects to complete while having a natter.
Start time: 11am
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Councillors Surgery
Airedale Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Local councillor's surgery for resident's issues.

Start time: 5:45pm
End time: 6:45pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Online Help Session
Wakefield One Library and Museum
26 Feb 2025
Details:

A computer session aimed at helping with gadgets and basic computer skills.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Duplo stay and play
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Duplo stay and play

Start time: 11am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Jigsaws & Board Games
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

A selection of jigsaws & board games for you to enjoy and make new friends.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Home education
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Home Education is a weekly opportunity for families who Home Educate to meet up and interact with others. It’s a chance to meet new friends, learn new skills and utilise the facilities in the library setting.

Start time: 11am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Children, Teenagers
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Knit and Natter
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us for knitting and nattering, either bring your own or have a go at trying our knitting projects, meet new friends and gain new skills.

Start time: 12pm
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Story Time
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Story time and rhymes.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Duplo stay and play
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Details:

Duplo stay and play

Start time: 2:30pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Children's Library, First Floor
calendarIcon
Sewing Bee
Ossett Library
26 Feb 2025
Start time: 2pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Horbury Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along and join in the fun! No booking is required.

Start time: 10:15am
End time: 10:45am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Horbury Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Knit and natter Hemsworth Library
Hemsworth Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Knitting and crochet group and of course a good old natter!
Start time: 1pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Games afternoon
Featherstone Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Come along meet new friends and have a go at a selection of games, chess, scrabble, cards, dominoes, cards, jigsaws refreshments provided On every Wednesday 1-3pm And Thursday 1-3pm Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Knit and natter Normanton Library
Normanton Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Friendly group, bring your knitting, ask advice from the others in the group and have a good natter. Any of the team at Normanton Library T: 01924 302525 or email: normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 1:30pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Code Club
Normanton Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Term time only – a group for children who enjoy, or wish to learn the skill of coding, using projects supplied by Code Club UK.
Start time: 4pm
End time: 5pm
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Code Club Wakefield Library
Wakefield One Library and Museum
27 Feb 2025
Details: Term time only – a group for children who enjoy, or wish to learn the skill of coding, using Scratch, Python and HTML.
Start time: 4pm
End time: 5pm
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Castleford Butterflies
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Stories and Rhymes for the Under 5’s. Booking is essential.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Main Library, First Floor
calendarIcon
Storytime
Featherstone Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Story and Rhyme time with a craft activity

 

Free event

aimed at under 5’s. 

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Coffee morning
Stanley Library
27 Feb 2025
Details: Adult Coffee morning with a quiz. Small charge for refreshments. Contact: stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 303130
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Weekly Coffee Morning
Hemsworth Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us at our weekly coffee morning. With different activities to take part in from crosswords to dominoes, crafts to bingo, you can keep your mind active with a cup of coffee and a friendly chat.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Knit & Natter at Horbury Library
Horbury Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along, meet new friends and have a go! Bring your own knitting.

Fun, friendly group. All ages welcome.

Start time: 1:30pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Horbury Library
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Story Time
Featherstone Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Story and Rhyme time with a craft activity,

Come along meet new friends.

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s, Families, Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
BUILD club
Stanley Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Join our fun-filled building group at Stanley Library. Create anything you want using our wide selection of engineering toys and games. LEGO, K’nex, marble runs, building straws, magnets and more… The possibilities are endless at BUILD Club!

Start time: 3:30pm
End time: 5pm
Age range: Children, Teenagers, Under 5s, Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
The Game Club
Stanley Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us at Stanley Library for our relaxed games club. Have a game of chess or dominoes or try your hand at a round of cards. Refreshments served.

Start time: 1pm
End time: 2:30pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Student Social
Hemsworth Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Catch up with homework, catch up with friends, and unwind at the end of the school day.

Term time only.

Start time: 3:30pm
End time: 6pm
Age range: Teenagers
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Walking Group
Hemsworth Library
27 Feb 2025
Details:

Get fit with us at Hemsworth Library! A weekly guided walk starting and ending at the library, followed by a warm drink to finish off.

Start time: 10am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Hemsworth Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Under 5's storytime and craft. TERM TIME ONLY 

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
South Elmsall Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Under 5's storytime with rhymes and crafts every Tuesday.

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: South Elmsall Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
28 Feb 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Storytime
Wakefield One Library and Museum
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along and enjoy the fun with stories and rhymes. Booking is not required.

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Storytime Horbury Library
Horbury Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along and join in the fun! No booking is required.

Start time: 2:15pm
End time: 3:15pm
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: Yes
Location: Horbury Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Knit and natter Sandal Library
Sandal Library
28 Feb 2025
Details: Adult knit & natter and crafts . Come along meet new friends and share patterns, techniques and advice
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Ancestry Group
Normanton Library
28 Feb 2025
Details: Friendly group, bring your existing research, or if you are starting from new, bring as much information about your ancestors as you can. Volunteer-led, using the computers in the library (printer available, but there is a charge for printing) and using the online resources available. Contact any of the team at Normanton Library T: 01924 302525 or email: normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
German conversation
Sandal Library
28 Feb 2025
Details: Weekly U3A German conversation group
Start time: 1:30pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Adults
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Sandal Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Lego Club
Stanley Library
28 Feb 2025
Details: Join us for our Lego club. It’s a great chance to play, build and create with us. Suitable for children of all ages. Booking is required for this activity. Contact: Tel: 01924 303130 Email: stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 3:30pm
End time: 4:30pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Active minds
Featherstone Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along meet new friends and have a go at our weekly quiz.

Variety of subjects covered.

Free event aimed at adults, refreshments provided

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Seniors, Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Storytime
Normanton Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Short, interactive story sessions for Under 5's. Great way to introduce them to the library and books. Term Time Only. Contact any of the team at Normanton Library T: 01924 302525 or email: normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk

Start time: 10am
End time: 10:15am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Active Minds
Featherstone Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Come along meet new friends and have a go at our weekly quiz.

Variety of subjects covered.

Free event aimed at adults, refreshments provided.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Seniors, Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Craft and chat
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Friendly craft and chat group. Bring along a current project and come along for chat and a cuppa.

Start time: 11am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Stop Smoking Support Group at Airedale Library
Airedale Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Support sessions to help you to stop smoking.

Call into one of our group sessions between 9.30 & 10.30 every Friday morning or telephone 01924 252174.
Our website address is www.yorkshiresmokefree.nhs.uk if you'd like more information.

Contact the front desk on arrival.

Start time: 9:30am
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors, Teenagers
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room
calendarIcon
Fab Fridays
Hemsworth Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Join us for an afternoon jam packed with fun and games! Challenge your mind with quizzes and mind-teasers, choose from a selection games to play, connect and socialise with like-minded people and enjoy free refreshments.

Start time: 1pm
End time: 3pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Mindful Morning
Stanley Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Spend a relaxing morning at Stanley Library in our friendly mindfulness session. Try your hand at some water colour painting, adult colouring, brainteasers and puzzles. Refreshments served.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Teen Literacy Zone
Ossett Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Students social gives you a chance to have a go at different activities including crafts, drawing, games whilst meeting new friends.

Start time: 3pm
End time: 4pm
Age range: Children, Teenagers
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Duplo stay and play
Ossett Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Duplo stay and play

Start time: 11am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Story Time
Ossett Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Story time and rhymes.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11am
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Duplo stay and play
Ossett Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Duplo stay and play

Start time: 2:30pm
End time: 3:30pm
Age range: Under 5s
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Children's Library, First Floor
calendarIcon
Diamond Art
Airedale Library
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Try your hand at Diamond Art! This unique way of making art is therapeutic and fun. Have a chat and a coffee while you create too!

 

This group requires you to bring your own diamond art supplies, but friendly advice is available on where to begin.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Teenagers, Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Chair Based Yoga
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
28 Feb 2025
Details:

Chair based yoga is a gentle form of yoga suitable for all fitness levels from very basic to advanced. Join us to start you journey to improve your fitness in warm friendly surroundings and make new friends.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Morning drop in – (read daily newspaper & weekly magazine)
Featherstone Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: Call in between 10-12 noon to have a cuppa and read daily newspapers and selection of magazines. Free event (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) Contact: featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Checkmates - Pontefract Library Junior Chess Club
Pontefract Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: Drop in chess club for under 16's. Make new friends and learn the worlds greatest game.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Pontefract Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Lego/Crafts
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Drop in crafts and lego sessions every Saturday. Test out your building skills with our large selection of lego, then use your creative side to craft something wonderful. Contact Castleford Library 01977 722 085

Start time: 10am
End time: 2pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Fun Saturday (Games and Lego)
Horbury Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Join us every Saturday for a morning of fun with Games and Lego. Contact: horburylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 303060

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Horbury Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Lego
Wakefield One Library and Museum
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Come along to our Saturday Morning Lego Hour. Contact: 01924 305376 or wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk

Start time: 10am
End time: 11am
Age range: Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Active Minds
Airedale Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: A social group for adults with quizzes, puzzles and a natter
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Seniors
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Airedale Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Saturday Family Crafts
Stanley Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: Family crafts is a time to visit the library and make something special to take home. We provide all materials, instructions, and a helping hand, allowing kids to colour and create a variety of fun. Contact Stanley Library on 01924 33130. or email stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Crafts
Castleford Forum Library and Museum
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Drop-in crafts session for all the family.

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12:30pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Castleford Forum Library and Museum
Location within venue: Main Library, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Prize Bingo
Featherstone Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Weekly prize bingo

 

Great way to meet new friends 

£1 to play refreshments provided

Start time: 10:30am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults, Teenagers, Seniors
Free: No
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: The Front Room
calendarIcon
Councillors Surgery
Featherstone Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: A chance to have a chat with the local town councillors.
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Family Board Games and Chess Club
Normanton Library
1 Mar 2025
Details: First Saturday of each month. Call in and have a game of Chess, or see which classic board games we have out for you to play. Contact details: Normanton Library – normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk 01924 302525
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Normanton Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Nom Nom Reader Group
Wakefield One Library and Museum
1 Mar 2025
Details: Love to cook? Try new recipes? Share your culinary experiences? Whether you’re an eager beginner or bake-off star, come along to our cookery book reader group, and join the conversation about all things nom, nom, nom! Read – Cook – Eat – Share- Chat!
Start time: 10:30am
End time: 11:30am
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Wakefield One Library and Museum
Location within venue: Learning Zone, Ground Floor
calendarIcon
Family crafts
South Elmsall Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

A drop-in session 1st Saturday of every month to come and make different crafts.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Children, Families
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: South Elmsall Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Lego
Featherstone Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Lego

 

Get Creative with the Library Mega Blocks or Lego.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Under 5s, Children
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Featherstone Library
Location within venue: Children's Library
calendarIcon
Hemsworth Art Group
Hemsworth Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Unleash your creativity at our newest creative venture at Hemsworth Library. Our art group is the perfect chance to practice your skills, try something new and meet new people.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Discover Your Family History
Stanley Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Delve into your family history with an ancestry session at Stanley Library. Was one of your relatives famous, or infamous? Find out at Stanley Library!

Start time: 10am
End time: 1pm
Age range: Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Stanley Library
Location within venue: Main Library
calendarIcon
Coffee Morning
Ossett Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Coffee morning with jigsaws & board games.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families, Adults
Free: Yes
Booking required: No
Location: Ossett Library
Location within venue: Meeting Room, First Floor
calendarIcon
Family Craft Club
Hemsworth Library
1 Mar 2025
Details:

Bring the family along as our Friends Group provide fun in the form of crafting, beading, knitting, colouring, and pretty much anything else you want! Suitable for all ages.

Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Age range: Families
Free: No
Booking required: Yes
Location: Hemsworth Library
Location within venue: Main Library

Help us improve wakefield.gov.uk

Select how useful the page is
Back to top