This page includes all the local groups we know about in the region. If you know of any more (or spot any errors) please let us know. You can email [email protected].

 Cambridgeshire

 Essex

  • Save Our Libraries Essex FACEBOOK  PETITION (checked 05/23)
  • Save Brightlingsea Library and Librarians PETITION (petition now closed)
  • Save Buckhurst Hill Library PETITION (petition still open)
  • Friends of Coggeshall Library FACEBOOK (petition now closed)
  • Save Fryerns and Vange Libraries From Cuts PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save Harlow’s Libraries PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save Ingatestone Library PETITION (petition now closed)
  • Save Manningtree Library FACEBOOK  PETITION (checked 05/23)
  • Save Prettygate Library PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save Shenfield Library PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save Silver End Library from Closure PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save Stansted Library PETITION (petition still open)
  • Save our Tiptree Library FACEBOOK  EMAIL (checked 05/23)
  • Save Fryerns and Vange Libraries From Cuts PETITION (petition now closed)
  • Friends of Wickham Bishops Library FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Writtle Library FACEBOOK  TWITTER (checked 05/23)

 Hertfordshire

  • Friends of Abbotts Langley Library EMAIL (checked 01/25)
  • We Heart Libraries (covering North Hertfordshire and Stevenage including libraries in Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock, Royston, Stevenage (Central and Old Town) and Knebworth) TWITTER  (Twitter not updated since 2014)

 Luton

  • Libraries of Luton Arise FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)

 Norfolk

  • Dereham Library Friends WEBSITE (website now closed)
  • Friends of Dersingham Library WEBSITE (website now closed)
  • Downham Market Library Friends WEBSITE (website now closed)
  • Friends of Gaywood Library WEBSITE  FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Gorleston Library Friends FACEBOOK (websites not updated since 2019)
  • Friends of Hunstanton Library WEBSITE (checked 05/23)
  • Plumstead Road Library Friends FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Sprowston Library Friends Group WEBSITE (checked 05/23)
  • Swaffham Library Friends WEBSITE (checked 05/23)

 Peterborough

  • Friends of Bretton Library FACEBOOK  TWITTER  EMAIL (facebook not active since 2016 but twitter active more recently)
  • Friends of Woodston Library FACEBOOK (Checked 08/24)

 Southend-on-Sea

 Suffolk

  • Aldeburgh Library Foundation WEBSITE  FACEBOOK  TWITTER  EMAIL (not updated since 2021)
  • Friends of Beccles Library FACEBOOK  (not updated since 2019)
  • Friends of Capel Library FACEBOOK  EMAIL (checked 05/23)
  • Debenham Library and Friends FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Save Debenham Library FACEBOOK  TWITTER (not updated since 2019)
  • Elmswell Library Friends FACEBOOK (not updated since 2022)
  • Voices for Gainsborough Community Library FACEBOOK  EMAIL (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Halesworth County Library WEBSITE  EMAIL (website not active)
  • Kesgrave Library Community Group EMAIL (added 05/20)
  • Friends of the Library in Kessingland FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Lakenheath Library WEBSITE  FACEBOOK (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Lavenham Library WEBSITE (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Lowestoft Library FACEBOOK  TWITTER  EMAIL (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Newmarket Library EMAIL (added 05/20)
  • Rosehill Library Friends FACEBOOK  EMAIL (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Southwold Library EMAIL (added 05/20)
  • Friends of Stowmarket Library EMAIL (added 05/20)
  • Stradbroke Courthouse and Library Trust FACEBOOK  EMAIL (not updated since 2022)
  • Friends of Sudbury Library EMAIL (added 05/20)
  • Friends of Thurston Library WEBSITE (checked 05/23)
  • Friends of Woodbridge Library WEBSITE  EMAIL (website inactive)

 Thurrock

  • Grays Library (Save Your Thameside) PETITION (petition still open)
  • Grays Library (Save our Community Hub – the Thameside Complex) PETITION TWITTER (checked 05/23)