The Community Centre is open!
KPCC is taking bookings for parties and social events on Saturdays until 30 March 2025.
Capacity is limited to 70 people indoors; a further 30 may be accommodated in the outside courtyard. Closing time on Saturdays is 9.30pm, which includes clearing up time. The usual charge is £50 per hour; Kennington Park Estate residents pay £25.
KPCC’s Guide for Parties can be found here http://kpccoval.org/guide-to-parties/
Go to http://kpccoval.org/ for further information.
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2024 Summer of Fun and Food will run on Mondays through to Thursdays from 29 July to 22 August.
Go to kpccoval.org to register.
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Photos from the 2021 Summer of Fun and Food @ KPCC
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Our Community Centre is OUR community centre. As a result of our campaign to stop it being closed and demolished in 2017, we are responsible for its management.
We have set up the Kennington Park Community Centre Community Benefit Society, which is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as a charity; and we have a Lease and a Management Agreement with Hyde which means that we are responsible for bookings and the day-to-day running of the Centre, while Hyde as our landlord will continue to be responsible for major repairs and maintenance.
Come and get involved – and look out for the notices of what’s on. If you would like to become a member of the CBS, please let us know (either by email or by the contact form on this website).
The Centre has its own website at http://kpccoval.org/ where you can find all the information you may want about how to make a booking and how much it will cost.
Or you can email kpccoval@gmail.com or phone 0800 776 5587 (please leave a voicemail).
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2020 Kids’ Summer Activity Scheme
Our Community Centre locked down in the middle of March and was closed until the end of July, when we were able to partially reopen to welcome over 30 local children to our Summer of Food and Fun, a programme funded by the Mayor’s Office for London in conjunction with Kitchen Social and Lambeth and Southwark Councils, which provided free freshly-cooked hot meals and healthy snacks, as well as a range of educational, creative and fun activities on Mondays and Tuesdays during the school holidays.
Shannon and her team from Simply Smiley Productions were on hand to lead the fun, and making imaginative use of hula-hooped measured social distancing managed to successfully manoeuvre their way through the government’s rules and regulations (let alone guidance and advice) much to everyone’s delight and applause.
We were pleased to receive grant funding to cover food and part of our costs. But we have been doing – and spending – far more than that grant covered. We are still crowdfunding and would welcome donations, however small. If you, your family, friends, neighbours or colleagues would like to contribute our Crowdfunder can be found here.
During lockdown we were able to make use of a small business grant from Lambeth Council to extensively redecorate the Centre and make necessary additional changes such as installing hand sanitising stations and an outdoor basin for handwashing.
Making the Centre Covid-secure so that we can welcome our community back has been a massive task and we have approached it with considerable caution, well aware of our responsibility to everyone and our limitations as volunteers. We have carried out careful risk assessments and will be asking all our users and visitors to comply with rigorous additional safety requirements.
Thank you for your support – we look forward to welcoming everyone back soon!
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