Save Lambeth Women’s Project!

Posted on April 16, 2009
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The Lambeth Women’s Project is facing a new threat of closure – as Lambeth Council have told them they want to give their building at 166a Stockwell Road in Brixton to the neighbouring school. Please help stop this from happening!

There are a number of ways in which you can help:

1. Sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lambethwomen/index.html

This petition has been around for a while, but if you have not signed it yet PLEASE DO SO NOW!! The Project needs to be able to prove to the council that they have mass support, and the petition is one way in which they can show this. So if you can’t do anything else please take two minutes to add your name.

2. If you live in the borough of Lambeth, please write to your local MPs and councillors to ask them to stop the council from closing LWP:
Councillor Rachel Heywood rheywood@lambeth.gov.uk
Kate Hoey MP hoeyk@parliament.uk
Tessa Jowell MP jowellt@parliament.uk

3. Send a statement of support, memories of LWP or ideas for how you would like to use LWP in the future to: savelambethwomensproject@gmail.com These will be used to support the proposal (see below) to keep the building which the project is submitting to the council.

If your group/organisation has had any involvement with LWP, it is important that this is documented. Even if your group/organisation has not had any relationship with LWP in the past but would like to discuss using LWP’s space in the future, please do get in touch asap.

Some more info about Lambeth Women’s Project

There has been a Women’s Project at 166A Stockwell Road for 30 years now. The project has served countless women from Lambeth and the rest of London. We do not intend to let this legacy die now. We applaud Lambeth council for the recent unveiling of the Bronze Women statue just minutes away from our building but are concerned that she will become a monument to the needless loss of a women’s service in the borough.

Lambeth Women’s Project proposes that Lambeth council leases the building they have been existing in for the last 30 years to them formally for a period of 5 years in order for the project to prove that they can exist as a successful, autonomous space that serves its local community. Our current service has been hindered by building problems, a flood and a lack of clear status with the council. We would like to clarify this situation and show the council exactly what a diverse, useful, dynamic and needed space LWP really is and can be.

These are just some of the groups that have a long standing relationship with LWP: Muslim Sisters Jammat, Lambeth Women’s Aid, Lambeth Childminders, Black Deaf Sistahs’ Group, The Eritrean Women’s Group, Hi Tea, Lambeth Young Women’s Service, Girls Rock! UK, Remembering Olive Morris Collective, Feminist Activist Forum, Women Asylum Seekers Together, Urban Inclusion, Lambeth Archive, The Feminist Library.

PLEASE ACT URGENTLY TO HELP SAVE THIS UNIQUE AND MUCH-VALUED PROJECT!!

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