- May update Hi Everyone,1. Public MeetingThe Save Kensal Rise Library Campaign will be holding a public meeting.7.30pm Tuesday 21st May at St Martin’s Church, Mortimer Road, Kensal Green.Campaign update – Options – Way forward -
We have invited Mo Butt the leader of Brent Council and Roxanne Mashari the new Lead Member for Libraries and our local councillors to attend.
Your chance to discuss the campaign – Everyone welcome2. The Trustees of the Friends of Kensal Rise Library have voted to oppose the planning application of the Developer Andrew Gillick to change the library use from D1 community use to residential use. This is consistent with applying for the building to be listed as an asset of community value, which the council agreed to do in December 2012.3. SurveyWe are undertaking a survey of the local community which includes an assessment of the communal value of the Kensal Rise Library building.It is important evidence for us as we fight for the retention of the building for community use.Please take a few minutes to fill it in.
Click on the link to access the survey: http://bit.ly/18EgUbFThere will also be a link on our website www.savekensalriselibrary.org and paper copies at the pop up library and at the Public Meeting on Tuesday.If you have images you want to send, and we’d love to have them, please send them to me direct at kensalriselibraryusers@hotmail.co.uk4. Pop Up LibraryPlease remember if you would like to volunteer an hour or so of your time at the pop up just email me at kensalriselibraryusers@hotmail.co.ukIt was good to meet some new residents there this weekend who are very keen to support the campaign. Welcome to the neighbourhood!The Canadian chapter of the campaign may also be on duty at the pop up this weekend.It was great to welcome back the library cat Rusty who has been on sick leave for the past few weeks as he had to have a leg removed.Back to his usual self and still good company at the pop up.Pretty amazing and, dare I say, inspirational?Still fighting like Rusty we are.Made of stern stuff in Kensal Rise and Kensal Green.Regards,Margaret Bailey
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- PUBLIC MEETING!
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- April Update
Hi Everyone, Still here and still fighting. The committee will be meeting this week and one of the items we will be discussing is the setting of a date for a public meeting. There may be choices to be made and at this juncture of the campaign it wo...
- Excerpt from Manorbier Castle Chronicles - Huffington Post blog
The following excerpt is from a blog on the Huffington Post by Celia Lyttelton: "..I fell into conversation on the Bakerloo line from Kensal Green with an ebullient man about the demise of the Kensal Rise Library. Many have come to the Library's...
- March Update
Hi Everyone, As we go into the third year of our campaign and what looks like the third phase (Brent, All Souls, The Developer) perhaps it will be ‘third time lucky’? There still seems to be a lot of enthusiasm and support for the campaign a...
- February update - Perfidious Oxford?
Hi Everyone, Well, it was great news that Brent Council made the decision in December 2012 to accept our nomination and to include the library on its list of community assets as part of the Community Right to Bid section of the Localism Act. The ...
Upcoming Events
- PUBLIC MEETING!
The Save Kensal Rise Library Campaign will be holding a public meeting. 7.30pm Tuesday 21st May at St Martin's Church, Mortimer Road, Kensal Green. Campaign update Options Way forward Everyone welcome! Thank you to Graham and the P...
- Brent SOS Libraries
Brent SOS Libraries Annual Meeting Sunday 19th May 2013 3pm to 5pm Barham Community Library 428 High Road, Wembley HA9 6AH 5 minutes walk from Wembley Central Station (Bakerloo line and Overground). Bus numbers 18, 92 and 182 stop outside the l...
- Save Kensal Rise library quiz night at The Island on 12 March, 8pm start.
- Save Kensal Rise Library Quiz Night at The Island pub, 12 Mar @ 7.30pm
THE ISLAND pub, 123 College Rd NW10 5HA (tel:020 8960 0693), will be hosting a SAVE KENSAL RISE LIBRARY QUIZ NIGHT on TUESDAY 12 MARCH, 8pm start. Tickets £5 available from The Island in advance or on the night. Teams of five. Make your own ...
- National Libraries Day on Saturday 9th February 2013
National Libraries Day is about celebrating the value and importance of all types of libraries and library staff. In Kensal Rise we are marking the day by displaying re-designed vintage posters to draw attention to the closure of libraries throughout E...
- Selma James talk at Kilburn Library 7th February 6.30pm
The Global Women's Strike have sent an invitation to us to attend a talk by Selma James the co-founder of the Crossroads Women's centre who is to give a talk about an anthology of her writing at Kilburn Library (details below). Dear Friends M...
- 'Christmas Carol' and carol singing at Preston Community Library, 20-22 Dec.
A'Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens will be read in public over two days at the reading room at Preston Community Library. This is a Preston Community Library and Friends of Preston Library Event at 235 Preston Rd( 2 mins. Preston Road Station). C...
- Carols at the pop up library on Thursday 20 Dec. at 6.30pm
Thursday 20th December at 6.30pm at the pop up: Mulled wine, cakes and the sharing of festive cheer! Bring candles! And strong voices of course! Save Kensal Rise Library Christmas cards are on sale. Pritesh and Jaymini Patel's shop (corner of Coll...
- St Mark's Church Xmas Fair on Sat. 8 Dec. 1pm-4pm
Join the fun at St. Mark's Church Christmas Fair on Saturday 8 December between 1-4pm where Friends of Kensal Rise Library will also have a stall. [caption id="attachment_3750" align="alignnone" width="135"] Join us for Santa's Grotto..[/caption] ...
- Pub Quiz at The Preston in Wembley on Mon. 3rd Dec. 2012
************** PUB QUIZ ************** It's quiz time again at The Preston on Monday 3rd Decemeber 2012. The event is being arranged by the Friends of Preston Library. All proceeds to the library campaign. Tickets £...
- Leaflets at Kensal Green Underground Station
We will be distributing leaflets at Kensal green tube with an update and details of the Oxford trip on Thursday morning from 7.30-9am. If you can help let me know.
- The Save Kensal Rise library campaign goes to Oxford!
On Saturday 10th November we will be going to Oxford and would like as many of you as possible to join us. We will be appealing to the Fellows of the College to come and speak to us. Buses (free) will be leaving from the Kensal Rise Library at 9.30 and...
10th November: Speak Up For Libraries Conference Bringing together library campaigners and supporters to build on and share ideas and skills
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