Funding will help Myatt’s Fields Park secure its future
The 14-acre, Grade II listed Myatt’s Fields Park has received £77,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and £20,000 from Lambeth council to secure...
Credit without profit
Steve Powdrill meets the provider of a financial service with a difference
Years ago, if someone mentioned “credit unions”, you might be forgiven for envisioning...
Appeal for summer food and play funds
Loughborough Community Centre is appealing for funds for its Summer of Play activities based in Max Roach Park.
The programme of activities for children from...
Care and kindness for the Brixton community
Jessica Dyer spends a Friday night with Brixton’s Street Pastors
If you are out on a Friday night in Brixton you may well encounter the Street Pastors,...
Call for volunteers to bring the magic of reading to Brixton primary school children
This World Book Day (Thursday 7 March) national reading charity, Coram Beanstalk, is issuing a new appeal for volunteers to join its network of trained...
Volunteer at Brixton Windmill
A local charity in Brixton, the Friends of Windmill Gardens, is launching a new recruitment drive for volunteers at the iconic Grade...
Lambeth Street Pastors to celebrate new charity status
Lambeth Street Pastors, the church-based group that brings help and support to people who are the worse for wear for whatever reason in Brixton...
Slade Gardens project wins funding from mayor
Brixton’s Slade Gardens is one of a handful of local city greening projects to have been awarded significant funding from the London mayor’s Greener City...
Football team raise money for cancer treatment
South London five-a-side football team Samba Quays are reuniting 10 years after their last competitive fixture to play...
Brixton Soup Kitchen: ‘We don’t just do food here’
Brixton Soup Kitchen is extending its help to local people in need by offering confidence-boosting counselling.
Kitchen founder Solomon Smith has teamed up with life...
Brixton Soup Kitchen to feed 1,000 on London streets
After supporting 450 families with hot meals and presents over the weekend in the run-up to Christmas,...
Papa’s Park playground is open again
After two months of extensive refurbishment Papa’s Park (10-17 Pulross Road, Brixton, London SW9 8AF) is open again and filled with brand new equipment, soft...
Brixton’s Afewee at the Palace of Westminster
A government minister made time on one of the busiest days in the recent history of Parliament to meet three coaches from Brixton’s Afewee...
Brixton equality commissioner awarded Freedom of City of London
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Dr Miranda Brawn, Lambeth equality commissioner, patron of the Brixton Black Cultural Archives and founder of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation has been...
Building Young Brixton wins £850,000 from the Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund
Building Young Brixton, a consortium of six Lambeth based charities and social enterprises, has successfully secured over £850,000 from the Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund. ...
Time to be a credit to yourself and the community
Jane Wenlock of the Vauxhall Time Bank says timebanking will benefit both individuals and the community. Time banks connect people through the use of...
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VOLUNTEERING
South London charity seeks grant applications
Groups from Brixton, Lambeth and other parts of South London can, once again, apply for grants to help people in need or distress from...
Take an icy plunge to end homelessness
Crisis, the homelessness charity, is challenging Londoners to sign up to the Icebreaker Challenge this December. Brixton’s Brockwell Park Lido is one of three open...
Help for Heroes calls for volunteers
Help for Heroes is appealing for people in the Brixton area to help with its Christmas Collections at Transport for London (TfL) stations across...
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS
Brixton agency launches #KnowOurRights campaign
The Champion Agency, a longstanding Brixton institution, explains why it has launched #KnowOurRights, a campaign to arm people with their stop and search rights....
Union calls off Ritzy boycott but fight for equal pay continues
The long running dispute between Ritzy workers and Cineworld has been suspended says BECTU, the trade union representing cinema workers. The boycott campaign which...
Advocacy Academy students launch this year’s campaigns
The Brixton-based Advocacy Academy is dedicated to preparing young people to bring about social change.
A free academy fellowship gives students the tools, skills and...