Activities
Neurodiversity Self Help Group
Please note that the weekly meetings usually held at 7.30 pm on Thursday evenings in Buckby Library & Hub will not be happening during the winter months but they will resume in Spring 2025. Please look out for new information next year.
However, the Whatsapp group will continue so if you, or a family member, have been diagnosed with a neurodiverse condition, or feel that you/they have signs of neurodiversity, such as Autism, ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, or Gender identity concerns, and would like support and friendship, please get in touch. For further information, please contact Bridget on 07724 205301.
LB Parish Council Monthly Surgery
PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE ON HOLD FROM NOVEMBER 2024, until further notice.
Is there anything you would like to raise with your Parish Council? Please come along to Buckby Library & Hub on the last Saturday of each month, 10am to 11am, to meet representatives.
Social Afternoons
Wednesdays 1400-1600
Buckby Library & Hub holds social afternoons on Wednesdays between 2.00 and 4.00 pm but do come at any time in this window, no need to let us know in advance. From 1st March 2025, we do ask you to make a £1.50 contribution towards our overheads.
As well as meeting and chatting to other people, you can enjoy numerous games and jigsaws and take advantage of the other library …



facilities, browse newspapers, magazines and buy refreshments – coffee, tea, hot chocolate, biscuits and cake. This is a wonderful way to re-engage with folks or if you feel you would like to spend a few hours with new friends. Everyone is welcome!
Stay & Play
We are delighted to say that you can now come along and enjoy our stay and play facilities at any time during our opening hours except for 10am to 11am on Thursday and Friday mornings when we are setting up for, and delivering, our Rhymetime sessions.
Stay and Play is FREE for parents and carers with children under 5 and an opportunity for young children to play with a variety of resources, socialise with others and share experiences to support their learning and development.

Film Nights
Our Library Film Nights Are Back!!
Films start at 7.30pm ~ Doors open at 7.00pm ~ Tickets £7.00 ~ Refreshments Available on arrival and during the interval.
Purchase tickets from the Library or at the Peephole. Click on the links below to learn more.
Plant Sales
Every two weeks during Spring and Summer Will and Susie Mitchell will be setting up their plant stall outside Buckby Library & Hub on a Thursday morning from 10am to 12pm, weather permitting. Do come along to see the amazing array and help support the library.
Art Exhibitions
We are delighted to host a rolling programme of exhibitions in our refreshments area for local artists.
We showcase an artist for one calendar month with the exhibition changing every two months. Please contact Bridget Arregger if you would be interested in having an exhibition. Read More….
Knit and Natter
Please join us for chat, coffee and knitting at 10.30am on Saturday Mornings. We kindly ask for £1.50 per person, from 1st March 2025, to go towards library overheads.
Books in the Afternoon
Our group meets on the first Wednesday of each month – 3.30pm to 5pm in the library or in the garden weather permitting. We ask for a £1.50 per person contribution (from 1st March 2025) per meeting towards the library overheads.
New members are welcome, please just come along!
Evening Book Group
Our group meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm to 9:00pm in the library or in the garden, weather permitting. For further information please contact Fiona White on 07941 634899.
There is a charge per meeting to help support the Library. Periodically one of us does a book review, see below.
Book Review
Wednesday Evening Book Group

Book Review (2025)
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
The Echoes was March’s book club read, and it was a book that elicited a lot of interesting discussion and debate amongst members. Set between Australia and London, the structure of the piece centres around Hannah and her partner Max. The sections within the book are entitled ‘Before’ which explores the relationship of the two protagonists, ‘After’ in which we experience the death of Max who then proceeds to haunt the flat he lived in with Hannah in London. There are also sections entitled ‘Then’ which flashback to Hannah’s childhood in rural Australia. We learn of Hannah’s past and meet her troubled family. Uncle Tone, her mother Kerry, father Piers and older sister Rachel all live together on The Echoes, land that itself is troubled with the past. It used to be the site of a residential school for indigenous children where they were subject to mistreatment and abuse. Ghosts exist this side of the world too.
The memories of this trauma seem to haunt the land also and yet it can also be a place of great beauty and tranquillity for Hannah, yet as a reader equipped with the knowledge of the past juxtaposed with Hannah’s self-harming in the present, the experience becomes unsettling as you anticipate all is not well. This is further compounded by Max’s death and although his haunting of the flat does provide comic relief, he finds it highly inconvenient to be a ghost, we experience the grief of Hannah in her loss and are as equally powerless to do anything but watch.
Max’s desire to finds out what happened to him and what caused his death also works to drive the narrative forward. We realise as readers that we are slowly creeping closer to finding out what happened to Hannah and her family on The Echoes and discovering the reason she ignores her mother’s letters and has lost contact with her sister. Secrets eventually do reveal themselves in poignant and emotive ways. Despite the trauma that has been experienced by characters there is also much that is positive and funny in this book.
The Echoes then, explores history, narratives (who gets to tell these narratives and who doesn’t) and trauma but also one offers a quietly hopeful ending. Members within the group discussed that it made them think of other themes such as colonialisation, racism and how countries grapples with these ‘echoes’ of the past. Everyone enjoyed the challenge of reading the book despite the heavy content and difficult nature of some of the subject matter.
Wellbeing Walks
Village Walks with Brenda
Would you like to get more active, meet new people, or find different village paths to explore? Join Brenda for Buckby Village walks – the perfect free exercise, and an opportunity to get back into walking with a friendly welcoming group.
10:30am normally the last FRIDAY of the month
A 90 minute walk usually over fields using the footpaths and bridleways, and which may include some stiles.
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10am on alternate TUESDAYS
An easy paced amble on pavements and alleyways of the village, lasting about 40 minutes and intended for people new to walking.
All walks start from outside the library. We ask for a contribution of £2.00 per person (from 1st March 2025) which includes coffee, tea and biscuits there afterwards, giving more time for further chat! No booking required, just turn up on the day. Please check the library calendar for dates, or for more information contact Brenda Scoble, Village Walk Leader on 07799 073354 or brendascoble@hotmail.com.