Category: St James Street

Lease on “The Mill” Signed
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Lease on “The Mill” Signed

The former St James Street Library building is now leased from the council for use by the community for the next 15 years (as opposed to sold off to a property developer). HUGE thanks and well done to everyone (and there are so many!) who has made this possible.      

Published by on June 17, 2011 12:08 am
Job opportunities at The Mill
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Job opportunities at The Mill

After securing access to the former St James Street Library building and a years funding through NESTA’s Neighbourhood Challenge project, “The Mill” now has two job vacancies. The first is for a Community Organiser to provide outreach and organisation to the community, making links, networking, organising events and bringing the community together to make The [...]

Published by on April 18, 2011 10:51 pm
Come to The Mill – Saturday 16th April
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Come to The Mill – Saturday 16th April

The St James Street Library building is reopening as The Mill! So come to Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, on Saturday. Sorry about the short notice. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since we announced that Waltham Forest council was allowing us to return the former library to community use. Our original partners had to drop out, for [...]

Published by on April 14, 2011 10:23 am
BAG awarded major grant for St James Street
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BAG awarded major grant for St James Street

Blackhorse Action Group and St James Street Library Campaign are delighted to announce that they have won a major grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). NESTA received more than 600 applications for community projects around the country. Ours was one of only 17 winners. This brings twelve months of funding and [...]

Published by on February 17, 2011 11:20 am
St James St Library Public Meeting – Sunday 28th Nov
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St James St Library Public Meeting – Sunday 28th Nov

Find out about this last chance to save the building for the community and have your say…What do you think should happen to it? We need the community to come along and show their support. The meeting is organised by a collective of residents groups working to try to secure a future for the St [...]

Published by on November 20, 2010 3:01 pm
Library campaigners banking on the Big Society
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Library campaigners banking on the Big Society

Walthamstow campaigners are racing against the clock to save their former library. And they’re calling on David Cameron’s planned Big Society Bank to back them. Waltham Forest council wants to auction the St James Street Library building, valued at £350,000. But it has given protesters till the end of the year to offer an alternative. If they [...]

Published by on November 10, 2010 4:14 pm
Community bid to buy or share St James St Library building
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Community bid to buy or share St James St Library building

Questions in Parliament, delayed auctions, Lib Dem protests, community council bids rejected, plus meetings with councillors and potentially government ministers… its been a busy month for resident groups campaigning to keep the St James Street Library building as a community facility. Politicians from all three main parties are now all – to differing degrees – [...]

Published by on October 30, 2010 2:49 pm
Council confirm St James St. library to be auctioned off + Community Council bids rejected
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Council confirm St James St. library to be auctioned off + Community Council bids rejected

Waltham Forest Council have dealt the St James Street area a double blow with news that they have rejected bids to use community council money for the St James Street Library building, and that they intend to sell off the former library to the highest bidder. A member of the campaign group for the library [...]

Published by on October 4, 2010 5:05 pm
Still waiting… Residents frustrated by lack of answers on St James St Library
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Still waiting… Residents frustrated by lack of answers on St James St Library

After persistent campaigning for over 3 years, residents were told this summer (pre-Election) that Waltham Forest Council would like the St James Street Library building to be a space for the whole community, just as residents have been asking for years. Campaigners from St James Street Library campaign and Blackhorse Action Group organised a ‘Love [...]

Published by on September 15, 2010 3:20 pm
Thanks for coming: Love the Library Day
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Thanks for coming: Love the Library Day

Walthamstow residents turned out on Saturday [3 July] to celebrate a much-loved building and call on the council to bring it back into community use. “It was a beautiful sunny day,” said Mo Gallaccio, who organised the ‘Love St James Street Library’ event. “We promised to provide a fun day for all the family and [...]

Published by on July 5, 2010 1:14 pm
Come along and Love St James St Library on the 3rd of July
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Come along and Love St James St Library on the 3rd of July

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Come along on Saturday the 3rd of July for a “Love the St James St. Library“ event. 11am to 4pm at the Library building on Coppermill Lane. Kids (and adults) can decorate the building with pictures and ideas for how it could be used for the benefit of the community.  There’ll [...]

Published by on June 26, 2010 5:44 pm
Vote Library!
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Vote Library!

The Walthamstow Cinema campaign recently published a list detailing the views of all candidates & councillors on the EMD.  Anyone who wants a cinema in E17 should visit here and vote accordingly (in short most MP’s in favour,  Labour councillors want EMD building restored but not necessarily as a cinema, All High Street Lib Dems for). Now, the [...]

Published by on May 4, 2010 8:41 pm
Putting the Con in Consultation
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Putting the Con in Consultation

Question: You’re a council caught closing a local library without bothering to tell the community who use it, all to save £70,000. The governments audit commission savages your actions, the lawyers point out it breaks legal guidelines, local residents mount open air libraries in protest and the scrutiny committee gives you 6 months to consult [...]

Published by on July 15, 2008 4:37 am
Closure of St James St Library – 1st Anniversary
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Closure of St James St Library – 1st Anniversary

2008 is the National Year of Reading and Waltham Forest Council are marking it by continuing to deprive the local community of a much loved and valued Library. It’s now 1 year since the council pretended to renovate St. James St. Library, then promptly closed the doors without proper local consultation or warning. To mark [...]

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