How it works
Questions about borrowing, membership, donating or volunteering? We’re happy to help—drop us a line and one of our volunteers will get back to you.
1. Find it
Browse the catalogue online, with over 269 items. From drills to carpet cleaners to camping gear. Find what you need and check it’s free on your dates.
2. Reserve it
Reserve online in a couple of clicks and choose your collection day. Members get priority booking, so the kit you need is there when you come to the library.
3. Collect it
Pick it up from us in Exeter. No delivery wait, no return postage. Use it for your project, then bring it back by your return date. That’s it.
Membership
Yearly membership is £30 a year which works out at £2.50 a month.
Exeter Library of Things is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. We try our best to keep membership affordable but we also need to generate an income for the organisation in order to cover our running costs and make the organisation financially sustainable.
You can create a membership on our ‘Library’ page here by clicking on the ‘create account’ link at the top right of the page.
Signing up is straightforward and will take around 5 minutes. The first time you come to collect an item you will need to bring some form of photo ID and proof of address. You will only need to provide this ID once.
Collecting
We are open every Saturday 10am until 2pm.
Drop offs are between 10 & 11:30am and collections are from 12 & 2pm.
Our address is
178-179 Sidwell St above the Sidwell Bakehouse.
Come through the orange doors of the Bakehouse and up the stairs on the right.
At the top of the stairs head straight along the corridor and up the next flight of stairs. This will bring you to the Library.
When you collect your item/s we will check the item out and take payment through our computer system. We will give the item a visual check over, make sure you know how to use it and agree when it will be returned.
Faqs
Membership starts at £10 a year for concessions, £30 standard. On top of that there’s a small lending fee per item—just enough to keep everything maintained, tested and ready for the next person. Borrow a few things a year and you’ll have covered the cost of buying them new many times over.
If you think there’s a ‘thing’ we should have in the Library then please let us know. We also love a ‘thing’ donation so please get in touch if you have something you think might be suitable for our borrowers.