Brixton’s News Club kicks off with expert panel and hot topics
News Club is a fortnightly discussion event that combines a panel of experts with an audience of local news-hounds to dissect the week’s stories...
South London’s own penalty shoot‑out
There was more than one important penalty shoot-out yesterday – and it was a lot nearer home.
Archbishop Sumner primary school girls’ football team took...
Anti-pollution “Green Screen” installed at Brixton’s Corpus Christi Primary
On Tuesday 18 June, as part of Lambeth Clean Air Week, saw the unveiling of a 'green screen' alongside the playground of Corpus Christi...
Brixton schools group wins major arts research award
The Brixton Learning Collaborative (BLC), in partnership with the local Windmill Cluster of schools, is one of six UK organisations this year to receive...
Make a dolls’ house in a shoe box in Brixton Department Store
Make a dolls' house in a shoebox Downstairs at The Department Store in Brixton and raise money for Shelter at the same time.
Your shoebox...
StartUp Brixton: learn how to turn passion into income
StartUp Brixton is back after a year’s break on 23 June. Emma Lange explains how young entrepreneurs can learn how to turn an interest...
Brockwell Park school sports veto was ‘wrong advice’
Brixton schools that tried to book Brockwell Park for sports days were told by Lambeth council’s leisure provider GLL that it had been advised...
Brixton’s Jubilee Primary School pupils join in the music
Children, families and teachers at Jubilee Primary School were treated to a concert by a string quartet last month, as the charity London Music...
Work to start soon on Brixton Windmill learning centre
Work is finally about to begin on Brixton Windmill’s education centre. A contractor has been chosen and construction is due to start soon and...
Skunk Anansie’s Skin calls for arts for all
The arts, especially music, should be available to all young people, says Brixton-born Skunk Anansie singer Skin.
As a result of funding cutbacks, many youth...
Sir Lenny Henry launches national scheme at Brixton school
One of Britain’s most popular performers visited a Brixton school today (15 March) to promote a national scheme to boost drama education that was...
High Trees wins grant for language support programme
High Trees Community Development Trust in Tulse Hill has been awarded three-year funding to run a “Strength in Words” programme. The grant from the City...
Charity seeks volunteers to help Brixton pupils with reading
Volunteers in Brixton have been helping primary school children become more confident readers in a support programme by Beanstalk.
The literacy charity recruits volunteers to...
Soup Kitchen lawyers premiere Brixton on Trial
Brixton was yesterday (11 February) the setting for the premiere of a unique new film, an education drama that explains how a criminal trial...
From hoof to loaf – Brixton pupils see the start of wheat’s journey
Pupils from Brixton’s Hill Mead primary school were in Ruskin Park today to see shire horses Nobby and Heath plough another heritage wheat growing...
BIGKID charity raises funds for Christmas presents
South london-based youth charity BIGKID Foundation has been raising funds from the local community to buy Christmas presents for young people in Lambeth who...
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS
Architect launches campaign to save Brixton’s International House
The celebrated architect Kate Macintosh has launched a petition to save International House from demolition.
The former council office building was designed by her life...
Brixton campaigner wins historic pledge on Black history teaching
The founder of a South London project to advance Black learning and wellbeing has won a commitment from the London Assembly to support the...
Local NHS campaigners call for grass-roots test and trace
Local campaigners against the privatisation and commercialisation of the NHS have backed a call by Lambeth council to allow the failing Covid test and...
VOLUNTEERING
Putting food at the heart of our community
A new surplus food co-ordination and distribution service commissioned by Lambeth council and run by Healthy Living Platform started work this month
As soon as...
‘If Black Lives Matter to you, donate blood’
South Londoner Brenda Smith has donated blood for sickle cell patients for more than half of her life. For her 40th donation, she hopes...
Brixton charity urges action over Covid crisis for Latin Americans
A Brixton-based charity reveals today (4 February) that half of Latin Americans in London are out of work as a result of the pandemic...
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