The Spike Surplus Scheme
UPDATE: The Council won a possession order for the Spike on 17th December
2008.
The Spike is Dead. Long Live the Spike.
Thank you to all who have been part of this magnificent community.
The Spike has launched an appeal for help finding a new location for the project, or failing that, for individual elements of the project to continue. The Spike Music Studio, the Spike Well-Being Space & the Spike Community Garden all need re-housing to continue their work. If anyone can be of help please contact us at info@spikesurplus.org or 020 7252 9733
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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 ask anyone who may be able to help to urgently come forward, as we are very aware the Council wants the money fast.
Visit our myspace - www.myspace.com/spikesurplus
Or our blog - www.surpluspeople.blogspot.com