By Cindi John BBC News Online community affairs reporter

A London school which works with many disaffected black youngsters has lost its fight against eviction.

The Tabernacle Christian School in north Kensington has been ordered to leave its current premises after legal action by the landlord, the Harrow Club, a local charity.

The school's lease expired at the end of February before it had found alternative accommodation.

Since then teachers and parents have been staging a sit-in to prevent the Harrow Club changing the locks and evicting them.

Parents backed the school's fight to stay

A spokesman for the school Pastor Derek Wilson told BBC News Online the future of the school and its pupils now hung in the balance.

The sit-in at the school was continuing while the school's lawyers negotiated with the Harrow Club about how much longer they could stay, he added.

"Eventually we are obviously going to have to comply with the judge's ruling otherwise the Harrow Club will just send the bailiffs in.

"In the meantime we are appealing to anyone who has a building we could use temporarily in the north or south Kensington area," Mr Wilson said.