Our community partnership library bid has been shortlisted!

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#22

Thank you again & yup see ya there :+1:

#23

Hi

Gotta say I’m so super excited about our bid, but really scared just incase…

We have to win this right?

My stomach is in turmoil…

I know we can do this!

ETA We need to be allowed to do this :+1:

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#24

stomach cna relax - well done all of you!

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#25

Thanks so much for dropping off the laptop & accessories today Dick, they’ve now gone to our safe storage space :slight_smile:

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#26

Little write up in the South London Press about our community library bid :slight_smile:

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#27

It’s the “Mayor and Cabinet” meeting tomorrow evening where we will be put forward as the preferred partner to run our library.

Myself & @Michael will be attending if anyone else wants to join us, none of us have requested to speak & this is a public meeting, so anyone can attend.

The meeting is at

Civic Suite
Town Hall
Catford
6pm

http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=139&MId=4248

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#28

Hey all

In the mist of this meeting tomorrow, just posting this.

I won’t ever say I’m not worried about the decision that will be made tomorrow because I am being very optimistic

I hope the decision made is the right one :slight_smile:

Can’t help being scared about this.

#WontSleepTonight #Community #NeedToDoThis #HellYeah #CauseWeCan #ScaredWeDontGetTheChance

#29

Well in other words all I’m saying is that I’m scared shitless about the outcome & hope we as a group can save our library.

Nothing more or nothing less, guess we’ll find out tomorrow guys, but for me no sleep tonight but I don’t need it anyway :slight_smile:

#30

We have a library to run :+1::+1::+1:

At the Mayor & Cabinet meeting tonight it was agreed that our community partnership will be running our library :two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts::two_hearts:

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#31

Amazing!!! :grinning:

Well done @Pauline, @Michael and @V22 !!! I’m sure we’ll have lots more to discuss on the topic over the next few days, months and years!

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#32

Thanks for the support Chris & all other members of this forum, we’ll no doubt have lots to discuss for what we intend to be the best community library we can possibly create :+1::+1:

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#33

Wow well done to all inbolvd

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#34

Congratulations to you all, a fantastic local success story in the face of possible closure.

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#35

Hahaha, I just had a look on #TOSS to see what’s going on over there & someone was asking what’s happened in the end with the library. They’ve then asked if I was still involved as it had gone a bit quiet from me.

This was then posted by another “I think you may find P1971 has abandoned this forum and is posting elsewhere” :joy::joy::joy:

#36

Good on @robin.orton :slight_smile:

Surely people on there must be wondering why it’s gone so quiet?

I clearly need to do a bit more outreach so we can encourage the best of them to share in our conversations here. Decker, Devonish Forester, Absolutely and 152047 have all made some good posts on TOSS, and I don’t think they signed up here (although some TOSSe… ahem TOSSites have moved here under different names, so it could be they’re here already)

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#37

What does TOSS stand for?

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#38

The owner of the other SE23 site does not want that site mentioned by name here. If you type in the name it will be censored by the automatic software here (at his request, not ours). TOSS stands for The Other Similar Site.

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#39

Thanks, Rachael. Sounds a bit rude though.

#40

Somehow I’ve only just seen this, but CONGRATULATIONS and thank you!!

My girlfriend and I visited a couple of weeks ago (pre-holiday), and said how awful it is that it’s closing. Little did we know that you’d already won the bid!

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#41

In fairness it wasn’t Rachael’s idea. Just a handy acronym that fit the words neatly, that’s all :wink: