{"id":836128,"date":"2026-03-19T11:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/836128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:41:18","slug":"calverley-community-centre-and-library-officially-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/836128\/","title":{"rendered":"Calverley Community Centre and Library officially opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calverley\u2019s newly-refurbished library and community centre was officially opened by Councillor Asghar Khan, Executive Member for Communities, Customer Services and Community Safety.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Library-900x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199932\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of local groups who meet at the centre, along with library users, local councillors and attended the opening on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The community hub for the village has been created in the Mechanics Institute, following the sale of the library building earlier this year as part of the council\u2019s cost-saving measures. The library and children\u2019s library now have separate rooms in the building on the ground floor, with the hall upstairs available for group meetings and events. The hub offers free wi-fi and use of computers, and access to printers and other customer services.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s library has already proved popular with the Wednesday morning story time attracting dozens of children. Groups meeting at the library and community centre include the Knitwits knitting and social group, reading group, Mind Matters social group for adults, as well as the indoor bowling club, whist club and local history group.<\/p>\n<p>Calverley Library is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9-5 and Saturdays 10-1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000024573-1-900x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199916\"  \/>Cutting the celebration cake, Councillors Andrew Carter, Asghar Khan, Peter Carlill, Jane Dowson and Craig Timmins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calverley\u2019s newly-refurbished library and community centre was officially opened by Councillor Asghar Khan, Executive Member for Communities, Customer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,210180,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-836128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-calverley","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116255659701536488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}