The Dalston Trust's inspiring bid for Colvestone Primary School

Last August Hackney put the Colvestone Primary School site on the market through its property agents Strettons. The deadline for bids was noon on the 17th October.  The Dalston Trust's bid is for a collaborative intergenerational creative hub open to all Hackney residents. It's called the Colvestone Co-Lab.

This short film is about our Dalston community's bid. It is likely to be competing with commercial offers.You can learn more about the bid on the colvestone.org website here

The Dalston community's bid was encouraged by our Mayor's announcement "we’re committed to keeping the communities.. informed and involved, starting by encouraging organisations to put forward proposals for Colvestone Primary School”. Hackney also added a cautionary note "Interested organisations will need to ensure any proposals are sustainable and financially viable." 

Here's a short film about the Bakelite Museum which is part of the community's bid. Did you know plastic was invented in Hackney? Love it or hate it we've got to learn how to live with it, and fast. Bakelite Museum's exhibitions will help us with that.

The Colvestone Co-Lab will be a destination offering facilities for everybody: theatre, puppetry and performing arts, music and crafts studios, museums, exhibition and social spaces, creative businesses, a cafe and gardens. It all sounds too good to be true. But is it financially viable and sustainable? We've done the sums and we think it is!! Let's hope Hackney agrees.

You can sign up as a supporter here.

The Colvestone.org website is here