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Spike Surplus Scheme

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Spike was evicted at 7am on 12th January 2009. There was no notice and big dogs and lots of cops. See more:

Timeout Article or Indymedia Article

Check out THE SPIKE STORY - a 15 minute documentary... can't believe they shut down the place...


SAVE THE SPIKE... PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION... CLICK THE LINK BELOW
SPIKE PETITION
“The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities” – Fritjof Kapra


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.

Emerging from the free party scene, the Spike Surplus Scheme landed in 1998 in an abandoned, fly-tipped, burnt-out building.

This building was formerly The South London Children's Scrap Scheme, and before that, the administrative block for the largest Doss-house in London (check ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’, George Orwell), providing shelter for up to 1,100 wayfarers a night.

10 years on and The Spike is a beautiful and diverse community space that raises awareness to low-impact living, celebrates the fascinating history of the place, and makes dreams come true.

We have a stunning community garden with free permaculture courses for all; a rehearsal and professional recording space for local bands and artists; a collaborative music production studio aka The Yoda Room; a dojo used for yoga, martial arts and the like, with a weekly drop-in wellbeing clinic offering complementary therapies; a video production space; a cinema and much more. It's all run on a donations basis and open to all. Come check the space… reckon you'll love it.

We have big plans for the future development of The Spike, but we need help.

Southwark Council have decided with no notice that they want to sell the space, without checking the enormous benefits Spike contributes to Peckham.

We can't lose this space… it's too special.

If you have any ideas that can help, please get in touch… oh, And feel free to leave comments about the Spike below.. might be useful for proving Spike Surplus Scheme is not ‘surplus to requirements’ :)

Find out more - check the Surplus People blog...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/04/2008
Band Website: www.spikesurplus.org
Band Members:
Influences: New film by itistv documenting the struggle to keep the 160 year old community space open:

Check this out! Smallmoney has put together some Spike TV...

And here's a scene from King Lear, performed at Spike January 2009

The Sanford Collective - King Lear


Sounds Like:

The new Spike film.. gives you a chance to see what we get up to at Spike.. Huge thanks to Smallmoney and Prasanth for the filming and editing in such a short amount of time. And thanks to all the stars x

And Baraka put this one together after our last adventures at the townhall..


Get your Peckham Diamonds in.. help save the Spike! You can buy them at the store on the spike website: spikesurplus.org

Also available: SPIKE T-SHIRTS - CRYMEIN DESIGN AVAILABLE - as worn by Manu Chao's bassist. AND CDs - Sunday Sounds, Spike.

And here's Sound of Rum live at Spike Benefit, Monday Love :)


Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Vote for The Spike Story at http://www.aworldtowin.net/film/fastfwdentries.html

'The Spike Story' is online at: http://vimeo.com/5232266 AND its in the World to Win Fast Forward Film Competition. Its best to watch it at Vimeo because the full 15 minutes of it is ther...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:09:00 GMT

300,000 Tamil civilians face hunger

300,000 Tamil civilians face hunger, Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has instructed UN and World Food Programme officials to keep away from 'safety zone,' which has been subjected to continuous inhuman artillery...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:01:00 GMT

King Lear

The Story so far...The first known occupiers of the land where The Spike stands were the Sisters of the Christian Retreat. In 1848 a group of seven Sisters were to leave Les Fontenelles for London. As...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:24:00 GMT

Press Release - End days for the Spike

Bah Humbug! Southwark Council evicting Spike Surplus Scheme - Peckham's cherished community projectThe Spike Surplus Scheme which has been in Peckham for ten years serving the local community through ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:00 GMT

December Update

Hi again everyone..Well, as predicted by a few people, we received a court date for a Possession Order yesterday. We will be in court on 17th December. Hopefully, even if the Council win, they will no...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:25:00 GMT

November at Spike

Better late than never? :)Hi again everyone,The Council Assembly the other day was rather uneventful with Nick Stanton informing us that he could not respond to our invitation to view the site with a ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Urgent - please help

Hi everyone,It's crunch time. We have a deadline on the 26th, which we were hoping to renegotiate, but we have been denied access to Councillor Tim McNally, the executive member for resources, and the...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:10:00 GMT

Current Spike Timetable of Regular Activities

..tr> DAY TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION MON 6  7.30PM 8  10PM SIVANANDA YOGA DANCE DOJO DOJO   TUES ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:46:00 GMT

September at the Spike

We've had another whirlwind of a month. Following negotiations with the council we've had a slight extension. We have until 24th September to raise 10% of the asking price which is currently £440,000,...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Spike Press Release

URGENT NATIONAL SUPPORT NEEDED FOR SPIKE SURPLUS SCHEME: SOUTH LONDON COMMUNITY PROJECT UNDER THREAT OF CLOSURE http://www.spikesurplus.org/ 39b Consort Road, Peckham, London More info:  info@sp...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:49:00 GMT