11 Months ago Ruskin Readers , along with several other community groups, were ousted from Carnegie Library by Lambeth Council. The council had made little effort to engage with the groups to ensure they would be safely housed and accommodated elsewhere. It was left to the community group leaders to find new premises and endure the agony of how they would do that with limited funding or none at all. As a Ruskin Readers tutor I found myself in the midst of the anxiety faced by our Lead Tutor (Caroline Knapp). I was angry and astounded at Lambeth for their lack of thought regarding this matter. And you know from my Private Protest post in January how I went about dealing with my anger. But the fact still remained that Ruskin Readers was effectively homeless. At The Cambria For a while we had to split the club into two with the Monday night group putting up shop at The Cambria and the Wednesday group parcelled off to Norwood Library. Our ...
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