Ravens Island Rising

We are re-organising the Ravens Island Community centre campaign.

The next steering committee and Friends of Ravens island meetings will be on the 14th and 28th July at 7 pm in Kingston University Penrhyn rd campus. Exact venue room to be confirmed. Someone will be in reception to redirect.

We need help with all sorts of skills so please get in touch.

Last meetings notes posted here soon.

The campaign is gaining momentum we are doing a stall to raise awareness of the campaign to save ravens island as a community centre and other environmental issues once a week by the church in Market square. If you would like to help, this is a great place to start as we need people who believe in the island to help collect signitures for the poll.

Ring for info.. Phone numbers can be found in the contact section of this site.

Office space is still needed for the campaign. All donations gratefully accepted, we need funds to keep this campaign running.

We need your action NOW. Within 2-3 months the deal may have been done to sell off this historic island, the birthplace of British Parliamentary Democracy (Treaty of Lambeth 1217), for a hotel, flats or another private property deal of this Public Common Land.

We were informed by a professor of Law at Surrey University that the Council should have declared this land as common land to the government in 1968.However this was not done and now they wish to sell it of to private development concerns.
The Borough of Kingston also committed in 1989 to ensure the Island was used for Education and recreation as recorded in Hansard from questions in the House of Lords.

What better form of education and recreation than a community centre.!