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Sunday, 24 February 2019

Changing Purposes at Kensal Rise Library

"Kensal Rise Library" appears to have altered its twitter bio to suggest that it is now interested in becoming a Council staffed and run library.  Specifically it now says "We will hang in there until it is publicly funded and run by the council."

It seems to follow this twitter exchange with veteran library campaigner Alan Wylie (I am indebted to equally veteran Brent campaigner Martin Francis for this information):




You will no longer find these tweets as @KensalRLibrary has deleted them, as indeed has @wylie_alan.

I am not sure how it ties up with the current fund raising campaign,  Nor am I clear how it works with whatever volunteer structure it is building up given it now occupies the building, or with what message they are giving people that they are asking funds from, or their status as a charity (no. 1141606) set up to "To advance public education by running and/or assisting in the running of a library at Bathurst Gardens, Kensal Rise, London NW10 5JA, for the benefit of the residents of the London Borough of Brent."

It doesn't seem to me to be a very realistic goal since the publicly run libraries in Brent have only just escaped a round of budget cuts to reduce their hours further.  It is certainly different to what they said during the Court case which was partly based on a bid to run the building which Brent Council turned down

I think that the group would be well advised to have greater clarity over what their objectives are.

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