The Lambeth Women's Project is facing a new threat of closure as Lambeth Council wants to give their building to the neighbouring school.

How you can help stop this from happening:

1) Sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lambethwomen/index.html. This petition has been around for a while, but if you have not signed it yet, now is the time. The Project needs to be able to prove to the council that they have mass support.

2) If you live in the borough of Lambeth, write to your local MPs and councillors to ask them to stop the council from closing Lambeth Women's Project. (Councillor Rachel Heywood rheywood@lambeth.gov.uk, Kate Hoey MP hoeyk@parliament.uk, Tessa Jowell MP jowellt@parliament.uk).

3. Send a statement of support, memories of Lambeth Women's Project or ideas for how you would like to use the project in the future to: savelambethwomensproject@gmail.com. These will be used to support the proposal (see below) to keep the building which the project is submitting to the council.

If your group/organisation has had any involvement with the project, it is important that this is documented. Even if your group/organisation has not had any relationship with the project in the past but would like to discuss using their space in the future, get in touch ASAP.

Some more info about Lambeth Women's Project

"There has been a Women's Project at 166A Stockwell Road for 30 years now. The project has served countless women from Lambeth and the rest of London. We do not intend to let this legacy die now. We applaud Lambeth council for the recent unveiling of the Bronze Women statue just minutes away from our building but are concerned that she will become a monument to the needless loss of a women's service in the borough.

"Lambeth Women's Project proposes that Lambeth council leases the building they have been existing in for the last 30 years to them formally for a period of 5 years in order for the project to prove that they can exist as a successful, autonomous space that serves its local community. Our current service has been hindered by building problems, a flood and a lack of clear status with the council. We would like to clarify this situation and show the council exactly what a diverse, useful, dynamic and needed space LWP really is and can be.

"These are just some of the groups that have a long standing relationship with LWP: Muslim Sisters Jammat, Lambeth Womens Aid, Lambeth Childminders, Black Deaf Sistahs Group, The Eritrean Womens Group, Hi Tea, Lambeth Young Women's Service, Girls Rock! UK, Remembering Olive Morris Collective, Feminist Activist Forum, Women Asylum Seekers Together, Urban Inclusion, Lambeth Archive, The Feminist Library." (from Lambeth Women's Project).