Thank you again for your support and for those of you that made a donation to RVT Future’s Fighting Fund via JustGiving. It is already making a huge difference to our work as we gear up for Britain’s biggest community pub buy-out – with your help, we’ve hired a project manager to accelerate our work, appointed […]
The good news Sui Generis classification granted by Lambeth Council, confirming the Tavern as a combination of pub, nightclub and performance space. First and second floors defined as ancillary to the business needs of the pub – and thus protected against development into private accommodation. The bad news Christie & Co are currently marketing […]
This is a unique opportunity to be part of LGBTQ+ history. With the Royal Vauxhall Tavern now an Asset of Community Value and a Grade II listed building (with sui generis status pending), RVT Future are almost ready to put in a bid to purchase the venue. To give us the best possible chance of […]
The public consultation for the application of sui generis status for the Royal Vauxhall Tavern is now closed. Thank you to everybody who’s raided their inboxes and shoeboxes for the sake of the Tavern – we promise to thank you individually after we’ve waded through the immense amount of evidence. We cannot be sure of […]
URGENT CALL FOR HELP: Please share this page and pester your friends! Those of you supporting our campaign will know that we need to provide evidence for each month since February 2006 to demonstrate that the Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been an LGBTQ+ pub and performance space for at least the last ten years. This is […]
The challenge now facing us – and why we need YOU to help save the UK’s oldest LGBTQ pub and performance venue. Since winning Grade II listed status last September, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been thriving – packed to the rafters week in, week out. But its future is still not secure. The Royal […]
This week, Immovate associates Martin Kurschel, Chairman Immovate Holding and Dr. Xaver Kriechbaum, Director IC London published an open letter to RVT Future via James Lindsay’s website and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern customer database. The original letter can be found here. They make a number of astonishing claims, including: The current RVT lease holders pay no rent […]
Paul O’Grady and Sir Ian McKellen have given their support to RVT Future’s campaign to make the Royal Vauxhall Tavern a listed building. They are among more than 30 performers, producers, local residents, LGBTQ charities, architects, historians and politicians who have written to Historic England (formerly English Heritage) to back the listing. The local vicar […]
Come join RVT Future at the Cinema Museum on Sunday 26 April, 7pm for a special screening of Save The Tavern – Tim Brunsden’s 50-minute documentary about the history of the RVT, which recently played to a packed-out crowd as part of BFI Flare – followed by a Q&A about the campaign from some of those […]
