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Mon, 05/11/2012 - 08:12
Campaigners hoping to save Kensal Rise Library from being turned into flats are staging a protest in Oxford on Saturday.
The Friends of Kensal Rise Library are hoping to stop the building's owners, All Souls College, from selling the Victorian library to developers, leaving only a small space from which to run a library.
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Fri, 26/10/2012 - 14:18
Kensal Rise Library will be sold for flats, after its owner, All Souls College, Oxford, decided to reject the bid of campaigners who wanted to save the building for the community.
However, the college has offered a compromise plan which will allow the Friends of Kensal Rise Library to operate a library service from an area of the...
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Mon, 20/08/2012 - 08:25
Campaigners trying to create a community library in Kensal Rise have raised nearly half the money they need to put forward their proposals, with just under three weeks to go until the deadline.
The Friends of Kensal Rise Library need to raise £70,000 by 7th September, enough money for their first year’s operating costs,...
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Tue, 14/08/2012 - 08:00
Campaigners trying to create a community library in Kensal Rise are seeking £70,000 of pledges to help them on their way.
The Friends Of Kensal Rise Library want to lease the building from its owner, All Souls College, Oxford, and create a community-run library there after Brent Council closed the facility.
A local...
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Mon, 11/06/2012 - 08:05
The Friends of the Kensal Rise Library has written to All Souls College to ask it to consider transferring the freehold of the library to the the library campaign group, so that the building may continue to be used as a library.
Margaret Bailey, director and trustee of the Friends of Kensal Rise Library, wrote to Professor Sir John...


