This Fighting Fund will help the RVT Future campaign move towards community ownership of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

Over the last two years, the RVT Future campaign has secured a quadruple-lock of planning certification for the Tavern including Asset of Community Value status and Grade II listing. But it’s not enough. Given London’s stratospheric property market, the RVT will be under threat as long as it's in private ownership.

So the next step of our campaign to ensure a thriving future for the Royal Vauxhall Tavern is our most ambitious yet - protecting this iconic space for future generations of LGBTQ+ people by undertaking the UK’s biggest ever community buy-out.

UPDATE 21/02/17: THANK YOU. As you can see, we’ve reached our £30K target - 12 days sooner than expected!

We can now move to the next phase of the campaign - raising the funds to actually buy the Tavern as a community. But we still need your money! Please keep giving on this page. If you wish to donate more than £250 please contact us directly at hello@rvt.community as we will look to ensure (with your permission) that those donations are structured as an investment securing you share(s) in the organisation.

Here’s how we’ll spend this and any further money donated:
-Specialist consultancy from a Community Shares Standard Mark accredited practitioner
-Project manager / administrator
-Building survey / valuation
-Legal fees
-Communications
-Website and technology

We want to make the RVT Community Benefit Society a model of best practice, as well as ensuring that we seek value for money in everything we do with the funds you have donated, or will invest. We will run the organisation transparently and accountably and will publish financial statements back to you, the community, on a quarterly basis.
As we’ve already stated, should our plan not succeed any unspent funds will be given to LGBTQ+ charities after consultation with the community.

Buckle up - the buy-out is ON!