Guests pledge support for charity at summer event hosted by Commons Speaker John Bercow
The first ever summer event of the Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation was hosted by the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow...
Freshview scheme builds 10 new planters in Herne Hill Station Square
Veolia and Lambeth Council’s Freshview scheme have partnered with the Herne Hill Forum and Turney School to install 10 new planters around Herne Hill...
Help Megan raise the £1,500 for mental health charity’s sensory wall
Megan Kent, a mental health nurse for Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health community team, began a 50km for 50days cycle ride during Mental...
Brixton woman to compete at top racecourse
Lucy Williams and Ethan Delcroix-Jones visit Brixton’s Ebony Horse Club to find out more about its latest success story, Khadijah Mellah
Khadijah Mellah, 18, from...
Palace players volunteer at local Foodbank
During the last week of the season, Palace players Joel Ward, Connor Wickham and several squad members from the Academy U18 and U23 teams...
Power for the people – renewable and solar
Lambeth Community Solar (LCS), a new community benefit society set up to create solar energy projects in schools and community buildings, is a leader...
Blooming Lambeth awards open
The Blooming Lambeth Awards are now open for nominations. So now is the time to nominate yourself, a friend, a neighbour, a community garden,...
Brixton’s Marathon man runs for kidney charity
Brixton local Martin Belzunce ran the London Marathon for Kidney Research UK in an amazing 3:00:20. The race is over but he is still...
Brixton children’s centres receiving multi-million pound upgrades
Work has started on the refurbishment of Loughborough Children’s Centre costing nearly half a million pounds. It is part of Lambeth Early Action Partnership’s...
Local student to walk a marathon for Alzheimer’s Society
Anne Manuel (22) of Herne Hill is taking on the challenge of walking a marathon to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society.
Anne, a London College...
10,000 emergency parcels and 79 tonnes of food in a year from our local...
The Norwood and Brixton foodbank helped local people with 9,929 emergency three-day food parcels in the 12 months to the start of April this...
Support Sylvan Bowls Club stay on the green
The Brockwell Park Sylvan Bowls club is appealing for help to keep the lawns trim and watered throughout the summer, writes Catherine Wiltshire
The club...
School Ground Sounds young artists make and record music from scratch
Brixton based School Ground Sounds has produced an eight-track album working with ten young people who wrote, performed and created the music.
The charity works...
Help Ruskin Park friends celebrate bicentenary
The Friends of Ruskin Park are crowdfunding to raise the money for a programme of events and celebrations this summer in to mark the...
Be a green volunteer
Volunteers are already at work in Brixton’s Slade Gardens after it became one of a handful of local city greening projects to get significant funding...
Brixton Windmill announces activity programme for the year
Brixton Windmill’s programme for the year includes highlights like its Beer and Bread Festival, Art in the Park Harvest Festival and the fourth annual...
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VOLUNTEERING
Brixton to Siberia by Nissan Micra
Sam Mellor and Tom Page, aka Team Togrog, set off to Prague from Brixton on 16 July in a Nissan Micra “write off” to...
Brixton Windmill Gardens wins Green Flag award
Windmill Gardens in Brixton has been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as one of the very best green spaces in the UK....
Jim Davidson gets (back) on his bike in aid of hospice
Herne Hill picture framer Jim Davidson (65 today), showed uncommon grit and determination on Saturday 28 June when he completed the 350-plus miles of...
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS
Petition to locate new memorial in Windrush Square
A Memorial to the Windrush Generation announced recently (22 June) by government to be sited at Waterloo is in the wrong place says Cllr...
Help available to host a local Play Street on Car Free Day
Lambeth communities are being urged to organise regular “play streets” by closing their road for a few hours a week or month.
Car Free Day,...
Food organisations to tackle waste at Lambeth Country Show
The Lambeth Food Partnership is working with the Lambeth Country Show team to reduce the amount of food waste going to landfill from the...