Campaigners’ ambitious £1million target to save Chalk Farm Library (UK)

Library campaigners say they will need to raise £1million to save Chalk Farm Library after Camden Council withdrew its funding. Plans to rescue the library in Sharpleshall Street were set in motion on Tuesday (September 21), as the Primrose Hill Community Association agreed to bolster the efforts of the Friends of Chalk Farm Library. Council funding of £138,000 annually runs out in March next year and campaigners have set the ambitious target to secure the library's long-term future. Colin St Johnston, treasurer of the community association, said: "We want to get enough cash so that we can mostly live off the interest and also raise a certain amount of money each year"