Buy ‘Tent City Occupation’ DVD

Only £6 (£5 cost, £1 p&p)

The history of Tent City filmed and edited by professional film maker, Jason Parkinson

You can buy online here: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2008/10/dvd-release-tent-city-occupation-volume.html

Or a cheque of £6 to his address,
(with your address so he know’s where to send them!).
Jason Parkinson
17 Salmon St
London
NW9 8PP

This website is updated weekly.

Introduction/About Us:

We are a group of concerned and committed citizens who believe that the building of a city academy on the Wembley Park Sports Ground is wrong. To this end we occupied the sports ground. Up to 30 tents made a colourful and impressive sight.

We come from varied backgrounds, are not just teachers, and we hold very different political views. What unites us is the determination to stop this community amenity being lost and to prevent the building of a school run by private billionaires yet paid for by us, the taxpayers.

Read about our views and actions on this website. Though we are no longer on the site our fight continues. We are ready to go back at a moment's notice.

Find out what you can do to join in the protest.

Keep up to date with the latest news.

Please show your support by:

Signing our petition

Checking out the rest of our website

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The reception classes at the temporary academy

have opened without any publicity and the site is still a mess and like a building site - as we said it would be!

Read about

GRASS (Grass Roots Alliance for Social Sports) Eviction - not the end of the campaign but a step on the way to win!

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Why are we campaigning?

'Tent City' was set-up to prevent the building of a privately-run City Academy on Wembley Park Sports Ground.

We're against the proposed Academy for the following reasons:

City Academies have been a highly unsuccessful policy. Despite massive investment, children's results have shown little or no improvement.

Wembley Park Sports Ground is used extensively by the local community. The proposed Academy would also mean the loss of a children's nursery, a community hall and three local businesses.

The Liberal Democrats came to power promising not to build on the site, within a year they have gone back on this promise.

The Academy would cost around £30 million of public money yet would be privately run.

North Brent does not need another school. It already has 3 successful schools very close to the proposed site.

South Brent desperately needs more school places - at present around 3000 children have to travel out of their area to attend school.

Building an Academy on this site would cause road chaos in an area which already suffers serious congestion problems.

An Academy would be allowed to choose it's own Curriculum and would not be obliged to offer a broad, balanced education.