The Livesey Museum for Children has been run successfully for 34 years by Southwark Council. It catered for 18,000 visitors a year in a deprived area. It was much loved and ran on a shoestring, but the Council closed it down with very little notice on 29 Feb 2008. The Friends is a newly constituted group, set up to challenge the Council's decision and to propose to take on the trust to run the Museum for the community. More information on http://liveseyfriends.wordpress.com/