Q: What’s been going well so far and why? Alison: We’ve been making really good progress and have had hours and hours of hard working volunteer contribution. We have identified skilled professional volunteers to complement our enthusiastic and hard working ‘amateurs’. We’re about to have a registered charity (with very well considered constitutional documents) and […]
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The Mill Newsletter – June 2011
Community Hub on Coppermill Lane The St James Street Library Building on Coppermill Lane will open as a Community Centre called The Mill later this summer. We are a group of local residents who have funding from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) for one year to provide a place for community […]
Come to The Mill, 11am-2pm, Saturday 14 May
Come and see Walthamstow’s new community space on Saturday 14 May. Doors will be open from 11am to 2pm. It’s not yet ready for use, as it needs repairs and redecoration. But come and see if it suits your needs for a place to meet, hold events or use office space. Four years after St […]
Opening up our doors
As we mentioned last week, we finally picked up the keys to The Mill, and threw open the doors to the public on Sat 16th April. After the building has lain empty for so long, it seemed a bit unreal that we now had the keys in our hands, so the best way to […]
Come and work for The Mill…
We have two job vacancies now that we are up and running with access to our building. The first is for a Community Organiser to provide outreach and organisation to the community, making links, networking, organising events and bringing the community together to make The Mill happen. The second is for a Community Administrator, to […]
Come to The Mill – Saturday 16th April
The St James Street Library building will soon be reopening as The Mill! So come to Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, on Saturday. Sorry about the short notice. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since we announced that Waltham Forest council was allowing us to return the former library to community use. Our original partners had to drop […]
St James St Video
A reminder of what residents said they wanted to see in the former St James St Library building. Recorded in June 2010.
Find us on Facebook
We still are sorting out lots of the basics – and hope to have more news next week once we’re done with lawyers – but in the meantime, here is a link to our facebook page – see our new facebook poll, on what should happen first when The Mill opens?
The Challenge begins in Coppermill Lane
Sunday was busy, as we, the new Coppermill Group, had our first formal meeting on Sunday, meeting Katherine of NVCO to get our project started. We also got a chance to look around our old local library, which will be ‘The Mill’, the community space for the residents of the Coppermill area (and beyond) The […]