The County Council has approved the transfer of the Surrey Performing Arts Library to the charity NewSPAL thereby offering an alternative rejuvenated long-term future for SPAL in the charity sector free from the financial and other constraints it faces whilst it is within the County Council.

This success is entirely down to the generous and vocal support from the Friends of SPAL and the many individual and user groups who have been determined to find a better way forward for the Performing arts Library.

NewSPAL and the County Council will now work together to plan for the transfer of the collection to NewSPAL, initially by way of a conditional loan and NewSPAL has to finalise the lease for the library’s new premises in Woking and set up a completely new operating platform independent from the County Council. If all goes well, the move to the new premises will take place in the Autumn of 2019.

We wish NewSPAL all the best and will give it our full support.