Published:
5:28 PM April 28, 2021
A petition signed by more than 600 people suggested the old bowling club in Elmhurst Gardens could be turned into a café or community space.
- Credit: Kerry Oliver
A former bowling club in a South Woodford park will be taken over by a private nursery - despite more than 600 signatures on a petition calling for it to be used as a community space.
The venue, in Elmhurst Gardens, closed in November and residents have been lobbying Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure (RCL) and Redbridge Council to make it usable by the whole community.
Vision RCL, which runs parks and open spaces in the borough, decided to approve kGems Nursery (formerly known as Knowledgems Nursery) to open there instead.
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Published:
11:09 AM April 6, 2021
Vision RCL has received a £190k government grant to help venues such as The Kenneth More Theatre reopen.
- Credit: Geoff Wilkinson
Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure (RCL) has been awarded almost £200,000 in additional grant money from the government to help arts venues re-open.
Vision RCL, the council’s culture and leisure partner, was granted £190,110 from the Culture Recovery Fund and was among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit in the latest round of funding.
The second round of grants, announced on Friday, April 2, will help organisations to plan for reopening and recovery.
The funding will go towards a range of music, drama and theatre opportunities, particularly for young people across Redbridge.
Woodford Green Library Redbridge Council wants public services like the borough’s libraries to pay for themselves as it embraces “commercialisation”. On December 15, the council’s leadership agreed the charity that runs many of these services should decrease its reliance on council funding over the next five years. Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure (Vision - RCL) has managed a variety of the borough’s cultural and leisure services for nine years and its contract is now up for extension until 2026. Inspired by the success of the gym added to the South Woodford Library in 2015, Redbridge Council now expects more services to pay for themselves through profit-making additions.