A community hub that has been in St Pauls for decades now needs to raise £20,000 to ensure its future survival. The Rastafari Culture Centre (RCC) on Grosvenor Road has been described as a "safe and healing space", but to remain in its current home it needs to buy it from the council.
In 2020 it launched a campaign after Bristol City Council moved to sell the building, and there were fears at the time they would be evicted. Ras Bandele Selassie and Morowa Selassie, who run RCC, were then told they could continue to use the building on Grosvenor Road - but they were restricted to the shop front on the ground floor, having previously been upstairs for over 25 years.
They say the council wanted to sell the whole building to a private buyer but eventually agreed to split the building, selling the first floor as a residential flat with RCC were allowed remain downstairs. However, they would have to buy the space off the council, and they still need help to be able to do this.
