Storage shortage closes toy library

Vice-president Emma Arnett said the toy library opened in 1987 and was a volunteer organisation run by a committee of parents.

‘‘Unfortunately the service has outgrown our current location and we have to vacate the premises at the end of this month,’’ she said.

‘‘We have been working closely with the Rockingham council to find us somewhere suitable for quite some time without success.’’

Mrs Arnett said the volunteers were now in the process of putting all the toys and resources into a storage facility until a new location was found.

‘‘The closing of the toy library will definitely leave a void in the community as a lot of different families use our facilities—single mums, fly-in, fly-out families, new families to the area and grandparents in the holidays—it is a great networking facility in the community,’’ she said.

‘‘The possibilities for the toy library to develop and grow are endless for the community so to possibly lose a great facility like this with no other alternative for families is devastating.’’

Mrs Arnett said the committee was having discussions with an organisation about a home for the library.