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The events schedule shows regular events across the libraries and can be searched and filtered by location, audience and keywords.

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New and upcoming events

Look Again is a guide to Central Milton Keynes’ unique modern heritage, art, architecture and design. Get off the beaten track and discover stories of how creativity is all around you.

Look Again was created by Milton Keynes City Council with the research and collections of the Archive partners. The trail is added to every month, helping to test stories and designs, and enabling everyone to explore our unique design heritage. Throughout the City Centre information panels and artwork plaques have been created with QR Codes that take people to the online information, with a handy Map to explore by area, theme or interest.

Help us expand the trail by giving feedback online - head to the LOOK AGAIN website.

Community Learning MK offers you a fun FREE course for adults over 4 weeks with sessions on Thursdays 12.30pm to 2.30pm in the Children’s Library on the ground floor at Central Library. The remaining sessions are on:

  • 16 October
  • 23 October

Build financial confidence and better money habits for your family.

  • Tools and information to improve your financial wellbeing.
  • Strategies for ‘need vs want’ and combatting pester power.
  • Tips for family budgeting, calculating bills and saving.
  • Fun, simple activities to help children of all ages to learn about money.

Book your places online in advance by clicking this link.

You can join any week but to get the full benefit you should attend all four Thursday sessions. By booking one session, you will automatically be signed up for any remaining sessions.

If you have any questions about the course, please email Community Learning MK.

Join Adey from Drum United Academy for positive mindset drumming and body-beats with upbeat rhythms and mantra for mindset development. Sessions are great fun with body-tapping, air-drumming, box-drums and drumsticks!

Sessions are FREE but require booking in advance as places are limited. You can register via the Drum United Academy website using the relevant links below to book your sessions. Each registration allows for one adult with up to 3 children.

Kingston Library on Tuesday 28 October

Stony Stratford Library on Wednesday 29 October

Central MK Library on Thursday 30 October

Parents/carers must stay with their children throughout the session.

If you need to cancel your booking, please contact Drum United directly using the Drum United contact form.

Join us for FREE interactive family workshops where children discover the amazing emotional superpowers they already have inside them.

FAMILY WORKSHOP: Emotional Intelligence Through Storytelling

What if you child could understand their emotions as easily as their favourite characters? 

Join us for FREE interactive drop-in family workshops where children discover the amazing emotional superpowers they already have inside them.

  • Tuesday 14 October at Stony Stratford Library 3.30-4.30pm
  • Wednesday 15 October at Kingston Library 3.30-4.30pm
  • Thursday 16 October at Central Library 5-6pm
  • Friday 17 October at Bletchley Library 3.30-4.30pm

WHAT YOUR FAMILY WILL DISCOVER

For Children (Ages 5-10):

  • Interactive colouring with characters from the book
  • Meet Your Inner Team - fun way to understand emotions
  • Story time with the magical new book

For Parents:

  • Understanding children's emotional world in a new way
  • Practical tools for family emotional conversations
  • Evidence-based approach to emotional intelligence
  • Signed copies of the book available to buy

WHY THIS MATTERS

"When children understand their emotions instead of fighting them, everything changes - from bedtime battles to friendship conflicts to school anxiety."

  • Prevent rather than treat emotional struggles.
  • Build resilience before challenges become overwhelming
  • Create deeper family connections through understanding
  • Give children tools they'll use for life

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  • Polly Angel - RTT Therapist & Emotional Intelligence Specialist
  • Creator of The Angel Path and The Superpower Academy
  • Helping families understand that emotional intelligence is every child's birthright
  • www.theangelpath.com

MK Lif Fest will be hosting ​Milton Keynes' second Indie Book Fair on Saturday 25 October 10am to 5pm at Middleton Hall, Centre:MK.

Over sixty independently published authors and small presses will be present to thrill you - their newest readers.

 You'll have the chance to talk to them in person, hear them read from their work - and of course to buy loads of wonderful books. (There are fewer than a hundred days left until Christmas, by the way.) You'll be spoilt for choice across a whole spectrum of genres: crime, mystery, fantasy, Young Adult, children’s books, poetry, self-help, memoir, sci-fi, humour, essays, travel and so much more!

Visit the MK Lit Fest website to read more about it and see a list of participating authors and publishers along with details of children’s events taking place during the day.

Play your favourite boardgames and learn some new ones while you make friends and strengthen your numeracy, language and communication skills.

Community Learning MK brings you boardgames and puzzle fun with the 'Games 4 U' sessions on the first floor at Central Library. You can join these free tutor-led sessions any week on Tuesdays between 4 November and 9 December 2025 from 1pm to 2.30pm.

You can read more and enrol online if you'd like to book your place by visiting the Community Learning MK course database.

 

Regular activities

Regular events and services for each library are also listed on the individual library information pages. New and one-off events are shown in the section above.

  • COMPUTER HELP SESSIONS WITH OUR IT BUDDIES
    • Sessions are held at several libraries and offer one-to-one help with your devices (phones, laptops, tablets) and online processes like setting up an email or shopping. Visit the Digital Help web page for full details.
  • COUNCILLOR DROP-IN SESSIONS - at Woburn Sands Library - First Tuesday each month 10-11am (drop-in)
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Newport Pagnell Library - Friday 2.30-4.30pm (drop-in)
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Olney Library - Tuesday 2.30-4.30pm (drop-in)
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Stony Stratford Library - Thursday 3.45-4.45pm (drop-in)
  • GARDENING CLUB - Stony Stratford Library (contact Stony Stratford Library for dates).
  • KNIT AND NATTER sessions at various libraries
  • LIBRARY COFFEE MORNINGS at Stony Stratford Library with FoSSL on the first and third Wednesdays each month 10-11am. Free to attend, just stop by for tea, coffee, homemade cake and conversation.
  • LIBRARY READING GROUPS at various libraries
  • MK NANOWRITERS meet on the second Saturday each month at Central Library 2pm to 4pm. It's a social group for writers although they do discuss writing as that's their shared hobby. If you'd like to know more or are interested in joining the group, please email mknanowriters@gmail.com.
  • SOCIAL SCRABBLE at Bletchley Library on Tuesdays 10.30-11.30am.

Please note that some activities are term time only.

  • CODE CLUB (ages 9-13) at Central Library - Monday 4-5pm
  • CRAFT CLUB (ages 3-9) at Olney Library - third Saturday each month 10.30-11.30am
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Newport Pagnell Library - Friday 2.30-4.30pm (drop-in)
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Olney Library - Tuesday 2.30-4.30pm (drop-in)
  • GAMES CLUB - (all ages) at Stony Stratford Library - Thursday 3.45-4.45pm (drop-in)
  • LEGO AND DUPLO CLUBS at various libraries
  • READ AND PLAY sessions at Olney Library - Thursday 2.30-4.30pm
  • STAY AND PLAY sessions at Bletchley Library - Tuesday 10.30-11.30am (term time only)
  • STAY AND PLAY sessions at Central Library - Wednesday 1.30-2.30pm (term time only)
  • STONY MUSIC MAKERS at Stony Stratford Library - Wednesday 9.30-10.15am
  • STORIES, SONGS AND RHYMES at various libraries

English conversation club is for anyone who would like to practise and improve their English as a second language, gain better skills for study or employment, or just get on in everyday life.

Sessions at Central Library

  • Everyone is welcome to join us on the day and you don't need to register.
  • Conversation club sessions are held at Central Library on Thursday mornings 11am-12pm.
  • If you'd like to know more you can phone 01908 254050 or speak to library staff.

The library offers many resources to help those who speak other languages and are looking to learn English as a second language (ESOL). The library also provides a range of material to help you improve your basic language and reading skills.

We offer Family History support from our volunteers:

FIRST STEPS

Get started with your family tree or research and have a beginner's guide to ancestry.com at Olney Library.

  • on the second Friday each month - 2pm to 4pm

Book your free session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk.

FIRST STEPS OR PROGRESSING

If you'd like help to start your family tree or to progress your research, our volunteers are here to help.

  • at Wolverton Library on the last Wednesday of each month - 2pm to 4pm
  • at Newport Pagnell Library on the first Tuesday of each month - 2pm to 4pm

Book your free session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk or visiting the host Library.

EXPERT ADVICE

If you’re having difficulties with your research and need some advice, John will use his years of experience to help you at Central Library.

  • Dates to be announced

Book your free 30-minute session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk or calling 01908 254050.

Friends Groups work in partnership with us and closely with local library teams to help support and enhance libraries in our local communities.

They provide an important contribution to support and maintain awareness of a library in a local community.

Folio - Olney Library

Folio (The Friends of the Library in Olney) run a programme of talks which are held 7.30-8.30pm at The Olney Centre, Room 4 and they request that you arrive at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Refreshments are served after each talk.

  • 3 November - Sink the Bismarck! - Michael Kushner
  • 1 December - To be confirmed

Tickets are £6 in advance and can be booked online at Ticketsource or by phoning Ticketsource on 0333 666 3366.

If you are no longer able to attend or have any questions, please email olneyfoliofriends@gmail.com.

You can download a printable schedule of Folio talks here.

FoSSL - Stony Stratford Library

FoSSL (The Friends of Stony Stratford Library) run regular talks at the library and details for booking tickets for these events will be released closer to the time. If you'd like to join the mailing list to receive news and updates from FoSSL, email fosslmk@gmail.com.

  • Details coming soon!

Visit the FOSSL website at: https://fossl.org.uk/ for the latest news and information.

  • Several libraries host Knit and Natter groups.
  • Beginners and experts are all welcome.
  • Admission is free.

  • Free all-round fun with Lego/Duplo clubs at several of our libraries.
  • We provide the bricks and you provide the imagination.
  • Everyone regardless of age is invited to join the fun.
  • Parents and carers are responsible for their child's safety.
  • Parents and carers must remain with their children throughout the sessions.

Click on the session links to see the dates when clubs are running.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 

You can subscribe to library newsletters to hear the latest news or follow us on our various social media pages.

Do you enjoy reading? Would you like to talk about what you have read? Would you like to share your views with an informal group? Then why not join a reading group.

We're excited to bring you the Summer Reading Challenge each year during the summer holidays.

We hope you'll consider joining our team here at the Milton Keynes Libraries. You'll find details of any current vacancies across our libraries on the library vacancies webpage.

  • We welcome volunteers at nine of our libraries (excluding Woughton Library).
  • There are many interesting opportunities for volunteers within the Milton Keynes libraries and there's bound to be something that suits you.
  • Volunteers need to be at least 13 years old.

 

Milton Keynes City Council Libraries contact information

Milton Keynes Central Library, 555 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 3HL

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