Lambeth: swimming lessons return to West Norwood
Swimming lessons in West Norwood (and elsewhere) are restarting for young people on Monday (14 September 2020) following a five-month shutdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Community Connectors Course October 2020
Community Connectors are local people who link others in their local community with activities and organisations that can help improve their quality of life. Lots of people in Lambeth do this naturally on a daily basis in unpaid capacities with no training or formal support, whilst others do it as part of a structured volunteering role in local community organisations.
Lambeth electoral ward boundary review – deadline for comments approaches
On 21 August 2020 we posted details of the Local Government Boundary Commission (LGBC) review of the Lambeth electoral wards, including how everybody could develop and make their comments on where the boundaries should lie. We also promoted the review in our fortnightly newsletters and via social media. The LGBC deadline for comments is 21 September 2020.
Station to Station: branding surgery for local businesses
Free branding advice for all Station to Station businesses, this virtual session is to be held on 29 September 2020 (10.30am - 12.30pm). This is available to all local small businesses, not just BID payers.
Safer Streets for Schools
As first reported in the Norwood Forum's second Community Conversation Lambeth Council is introducing timed road closures at a number of local schools: School Streets.
West Norwood Football Club on tour - before the First World War
In a recent newsletter we reported on the birth of West Norwood FC (WNFC) in 1895 and their home at High View Park ground near the present day Royal Circus). Now in part two of their article, our friends from the Norwood Society report on the international tours undertaken by the club. It is hard today to contemplate such exploits by an amateur club.
Volunteering opportunities
Lambeth Council publishes local volunteering opportunities on a weekly basis. Here's this week's opportunities in our local area:
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Lambeth Libraries events September 2020
The September news from Lambeth libraries.
Black History Month 2020
Lambeth Libraries will be hosting Black History Month 2020. It has been a year like no other, and a year which has had a major impact on Black communities, be it through the disproportionate impact suffered from Covid or the welling up of emotion and anger over the killing of George Floyd in America and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement here.
Have your say on plans to design the new Brixton customer centre
Lambeth Council wants your views on their proposals to design the new customer centre at the Lambeth Civic Centre in Brixton to provide a new face to face service specifically for those who cannot, or who find it very difficult, to access council services online or by phone. The consultation runs until 7 October 2020. Share your views by completing the survey below