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Help Kent Film Foundation Save the Granville

Help us to buy the old Granville Cinema & Theatre!

We want to turn it into a wonderful cinema and arts centre and a permanent base for the Kent Film Foundation and other local charities.

We have a skilled management team for the project with a combined 150 years worth of owning and/or operating highly successful cinemas, theatres, music and arts venues. Several other local charities would also have a base in this building, including Ramsgate Festival of Sound, Ramsgate Arts, Ramsgate International Film & TV Festivalf, Freedom Road and it will expand the work of Ramsgate Music Hall.

The Kent Film Foundation have a sound track record in using film and arts as a tool to re-engage youth, and at a time of major shortages in the Film and TV Industry we want to help open doors, build skills and launch careers for the young people of Ramsgate, as well as running a vibrant arts and entertainment venue for the community. 

This is Ramsgate's last remaining cinema where it used to have three meanwhile as the nearby town of Margate receives millions of investment every year compared to Ramsgate. We need help to stop the district council stripping assets for profit with no thought of the value the building can offer the community and local businesses.

When our bid to acquire the old Granville Cinema & Theatre through a Community Asset Transfer was turned down just a few weeks ago, our petition garnered over 5000 signatures in just a few days and the people of Ramsgate themselves rallied in support of our bid in the hope that the council would reverse its decision.  They even organised a "wraparound" of our cinema to show their support where it is estimated 1500 turned out on a midweek afternoon. There is still nothing stopping Thanet District Council in turning around that decision.

We hope they will reconsider their decision about the Community Asset Transfer but in the meantime we now have another chance to bid for the building. Will you help us raise the funds to get the building so we are then enabled to turn this old cinema into a brand new Arts Centre that everyone in Ramsgate and our visitors can feel proud of?

Photo thanks to Frank Leppard - Isle of Thanet News
Drone Footage thanks to Craig Longman www.cplfilms.co.uk/aerial-filming 
On the ground filming thanks to Sylvie Bolioli

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KENT FILM FOUNDATION
 
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