Kagyu Samye Dzong London Volunteer News

There is a great deal of work to do to make Manor Baths as beautiful as our current home. We need help with cleaning, carpentry, joinery, cabinet making, roofing, plumbing, plastering, general labouring, painting and decorating, flooring, bricklaying and tiling, glazing, as well as cooking and keeping the centre running alongside the building work. People with experience in the building trades are welcome, and we are also happy to receive help from any willing volunteers. As they say: "Join the Dharma, learn a trade."

Volunteers are now needed all the time. There will be people on site everyday except Tuesdays and it's fine to just turn up and offer what assistance you can. In the meantime there is also a weekend coming up when we need some very specific help at both Carlisle Lane and Manor Baths:

How to get to Manor Baths

Manor Baths are at 33 Manor Place, SE17. For a map of the location, click here. It is approx.10 mins. walk from Elephant and Castle tube station, and a similar distance from Kennington. The Elephant and Castle roundabout and Walworth Road nearby are also easily accessible by bus.

Manor Place is a narrow street off the Walworth Road. Behind Manor Baths is Southwark’s recycling facility, which will eventually relocate to the Old Kent Road. There is a police station on the opposite side of the road

Progress in March:

With the guidance, expertise, skill and good humour of Colin, our site manager and his helpers, 5 tons of rubbish has been removed from Manor Baths this last month... to start with! Various stripping out / down work has begun and some partitioning has already been installed. However this is barely the beginning!

Wish list - can you help?

You can contribute in many ways, not only by volunteering time. Colin has provided us with a wish list of things that would help with the work needed including:

• Laser Level
• Electric Sander
• Youngman board and tressels ( Reinforced scaffold board )
• Medium/Large Stepladder
• Paint (Mainly white to start with

The occasional use / loan of a van would also be extremely helpful.

If you are able to assist us with any of these items, please contact the centre on 020-7928 5447, or email us at london@samye.org

In the meantime, many thanks to Robert for the loan of an aluminium scaffold tower, Gloria for the microwave and to Emma for the Heatgun.

Manor Baths - 22nd - 23rd April

Does anybody have a van available to help remove some metal cabinets, stripped out carpets and other assorted items?

We also have 74 indoor window frames that need to be prepared for painting.

Not to mention a few more tonnes of rubbish still need to be cleared out.

Dress code: distinctly casual!

Carlisle Lane 22nd - 23rd April

As Lama Yeshe is teaching at the Centre on the 29th-30th, we'd like to use this weekend to give the Centre a good spring clean in preparation. We also need people to help to stuff envelopes with the new programme.

If you'd like to know more about volunteering, or if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact us either by phone on 020-7928 5447 or by email.