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A Milestone in Collaboration: BTCSC and Ravensbourne Unite for Regeneration Last year, Balham and Tooting Community and Sports Club Ltd opened its doors to an extraordinary opportunity with Ravensbourne University London—sparking a powerful collaboration built around the reimagining of our historic Club. With its deep Caribbean heritage and origins shaped by Windrush pioneers, BTCSC has long been a sanctuary of culture, community, and care in South London. Together with students and staff from the Architecture, Interior Architecture and Reuse, and Urban Landscape Architecture programmes, we embarked on a unique co-creative journey—exploring how our building could evolve to meet the needs of future generations while honouring its remarkable legacy. Guided by the leadership of Theo Jones and a team of passionate tutors and guest contributors, the project blossomed into a shared space for inspiration, innovation, and intergenerational exchange. This concluded with Ravensbourne students presenting imaginative proposals to revitalise the BTCSC premises, demonstrating sensitivity, creativity, and a true spirit of engagement with our community. The energy was electric—and the ideas, deeply moving. We are grateful to everyone involved: the students for their dedication, the tutors for their guidance, and our own members for welcoming this experience with such openness. This partnership is proof that when education and community come together, beautiful things happen. The future of BTCSC is brighter because of it. Other observations When you click on venue hire, you land on ‘our Team’ There are two labels for cricket under activities Seniors is not an activity, it’s a group that carries out many activities, not is Dominoes which has a number of activities each year. The activities are - Promoting Health and Wellbeing, Preventing loneliness, Welfare services, fundraising, Games, Leisure, keep fit and Club dances