The Spike Surplus Scheme

Final days of the Spike?

The Spike Surplus Scheme is a creative and therapeutic community who have voluntarily built a thriving eco-garden with arts, music, IT, film, drama, healthcare, yoga, martial arts and gardening workshop facilities and much more, a model of inner city sustainability, on a derelict site in Peckham owned by Southwark Council. The project has been used by multi-racial thousands of all ages and is poised to reach out to an even wider community, particularly disaffected youth. Peckham is a notoriously deprived area, with gun crime and gang membership rife and the Spike Surplus Scheme is already set up, without hardly any funding to offer some solutions.

However, Southwark Council want to sell the land, although with the current situation in the housing market and developers laying off thousands, the likelihood is that the land would join the councils other unsold sites and this wonderful unique facility would again become derelict.

All concerned, passionately believing in a sustainable future and genuine community spirit, are desperately trying to buy the premises, but as people who have worked more for love than money (or men of straw as the lawyers deem us) we are hard pressed to do this within the councils' deadline of September 26th, even though we are prepared to sacrifice whatever personal security we have to achieve this.

What we need is an instant loan that we can repay over an agreed time at a reasonable rate of interest. In return, we offer welcome to an oasis of calm and sanity and an open invitation to the best parties and gatherings in London.

Visit our myspace - www.myspace.com/spikesurplus
Or our blog - www.surpluspeople.blogspot.com