People's Museum Somers Town

Dear all, I'd like to thank you for supporting the People's Museum, and we are making good progress,  but I have a final favour to ask of you. Can you convert your pledge into a donation? Unfortunately we did not reach our target, because we did not get the expected Contribution from the Mayor of London, and that means we lost all 59 pledges - it being 'all or nothing'  So i am asking you kindly to donate directly to us so we do not lose your support.  And this way there are no fees - so every penny reaches us! So can you kindly donate to this moneypool: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8kMnAu7eky (Using the Spacehive platform meant there were 6% fees). I want to stress that the People's Museum is going to happen. We have received the backing of Camden Council and a commitment to funding us, and a premises. Please donate - we're going to make something amazing come into being! Donate directly to this link: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8kMnAu7eky If you have any queries, please contact me. This page will close for pledges tonight. Diana Foster Director Somers Town Space CIC [email protected] tel 07793592341 DONATE For a Community-Led PEOPLE'S MUSEUM!www.aspaceforus.club Instagram: aspaceforusnowTwitter @HistoryTown Facebook:/aspaceforus Publications available on donation  'Journeys: Stories of Migration' 'Spirit! '100 years of Social Housing in Somers Town' NEW! 'Fantastic Tales of St Pancras' - children What we have done Put up a poster display in Phoenix Rd - see me with Sadiq Khan!Raised funds from Camden Council CIL fund Got commitment to fix the broken Gilbert Bayes statue Kicked off co-design  of ambitious 'History installation' this summer with Central St Martins and youth in our community: see detail here: https://aspaceforus.club/youth-work-experience/ Worked with local Primary School Edith Neville held Events - fundraiser is with Bee Rowlatt on May 22nd Set up Research Board for Museum

Hello dear supporters, What links suffrage with hospitals to Frankenstein? (the clue's in the picture!) Well, all are linked to the themes of our Talk on the 29th of April Frankenstein to Feminism Author and prize winning blue badge guide Rachel Kolsky will be sharing the stories behind figures such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Millicent Fawcett as well as Mary Shelley and other extraordinary women. And you are invited as our supporter. Tickets are here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-to-frankenstein-slums-to-settlements-st-pancras-women-tickets-148614368577?aff=erelexpmlt As for our news? We are on our way to new premises and embarking on the design of the installation which you kindly helped support. We've started working with Central St Martins College of Art, from now and have set up a Design workshop week in Half Term week In June. All will be invited to our 'launch'. In the meantime you may like to see our temporary outdoor display on Phoenix Rd. NW1. Please forward to anyone in your network to support this wonderful project and help us on our way to the permanent People's Museum! Thank you so much, Diana Foster Director

To thank you for your support, here are the free zoom access to tonight's Women's History Month talk! - it's at 6.30pm. It's a Q&A format with questions - A Blue Plaque for Irene Barclay - local social housing pioneer instrumental in slum clearance, and housing Somers Town. With anecdote and archival photos and two academics: Carrie de Silva and Professor Esther Leslie, it'll be a lively talk! Please join Zoom at 6.30pm. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89197308181?pwd=elVKeEpjMmtzTjRkeFlpK3hqRUE5UT09 Meeting ID: 891 9730 8181 Passcode: Barclay Thank you Diana

It's Friday ...we've good news! We got a pledge of £500 from Camden's Veolia And we've in the News - had a letter published in the Times (23/03/21) about our campaign to restore the shockingly missing Gilbert Bayes "Art in everyday life" something we want in our People's Museum. See www.aspaceforus.club for more on him. Also we have been quoted in the Guardian about the renaming of Cecil Rhodes House to 'Park View House' ... A reminder - our Women's History Talk is on the 31st - About pioneer housing campaigner 'A blue Plaque for Irene Barclay' https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woman-pioneer-irene-barclay-tickets-144886799317 Free tickets to all who pledge over £10. Have a good weekend! Diana

Wishing you a good weekend! Thank you for helping us get up to 56 backers and that gets us in with a chance of the Mayor's Fund on Monday. Breaking news - we're going to do a couple more events for #WomensHistoryMonth. One on Mary Wollstonecraft in April (her birthday month) so watch out for this with a surprise panel. No end of strong women in Somers Town! And a reminder of the great talk on Irene Barclay on the 31st March (online). More details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woman-pioneer-irene-barclay-tickets-144886799317 PS As you've pledged already, you get a ticket anyway. Have a good weekend, Diana