Glendale Avenue
Wash Common
Newbury RG14 6TL
Wash Common Library

Wash Common Library

A community library funded and run by The Friends of Wash Common Library. Registered Charity Number 1179703. If you would like to donate go to The Good Exchange we are Project Number 19309.


Wash Common Library Is Open

Our opening hours are:

Tuesday 2pm to 4pm
Thursday 2pm to 4pm
Friday 10am to 12pm
Saturday 10am to 12pm


(Subject to volunteers available to staff the library)



Supported by Greenham Trust Ltd and Englefield Charitable Trust


Wash Common Library is run and funded by the The Friends of Wash Common Library, it costs over £5000 per year to keep the library running, if you would like to help keep this Community Library, then please donate through our project on the Good Exchange.


To donate on The Good Exchange please go to our Project page.

You can access our online book catalogue, click here.


Our Activities


The Poetry Reading Group is the second Monday of the month at 3pm.

Book Group is on the second Thursday of the Month at 7.45pm.

The Knit and Natter Group is the third Monday of the month at 3pm.

Rhyme Time is on every Thursday (Term Time ONLY) at 3pm.

Our next book sale, to raise money to keep the library open, will take place on Saturday 7 September, 10.00am to 12pm. As usual we’ll have a selection of adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books for sale, including many nearly new books.

We will also have a stall selling books at the Wash Common Community Festival on Saturday 28 September from 1.00pm to 5.00pm.

At Wash Common Library, we not only offers books and volunteering opportunities, but aim to provide community groups to bring people together.

Activities include monthly meetings of our Poetry Group, Book Club, and Knit and Natter, along with a weekly Rhyme Time for pre-school children and parents.

If you have any suggestions for activities or groups that could use the library to meet up, then please get in touch by clicking on the contact us tab.

We look forward to seeing you soon,
Julia Calvert, on behalf of The Friends of Wash Common Library.