As a charity, our purpose is to promote equity and justice, and advance education for the public benefit by operating and maintaining for general use a specialist library of fiction, non-fiction and archive research materials relating to feminism(s) and movements for liberation, providing other facilities for education and research into feminism(s) and providing safe space for people and groups to run activities centered on improving the political, economic, personal, and social experiences of all women and non-binary people.
The main ways we achieve this are by being open 4 days a week, providing public access to our collection. Community events in the last year have included monthly Feminist Library Socials, 1 community research day, 3 Crafty Tuesday workshops, 2 summer outings, Parent and Baby mornings, a Winter Fayre and a poetry workshop. We host 4 different regular book clubs and have had 3 collaborations with local community organisations. We also ran 22 one-off events, 12 library tours for university groups, and hosted 5 research group visits. Our bookshop hosts regular stalls at community and book fairs.
In 2024 we hosted:
