Paxton Green are a time bank charity that work with in Southwark and Lambeth. Participants ‘deposit’ their time in the bank by giving practical help and support to others and are able to ‘withdraw’ their time when they need something done themselves.
Age UK Lambeth are an independent local charity working in the community to support older people, their families and carers. COVID-19 has unfortunately affected the older community particularly, leaving many feeling sad and alone. Therefore, Age UK Lambeth are looking for over 20 volunteers to enable friendly 30 minute phone calls to some of Lambeth’s most isolated residents, helping them feel connected, reducing levels of anxiety and bringing joy to them and to you as a volunteer.
The Kinetika Bloco is a performance group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dynamic dancers. Their mission is to get young people, aged 8-25 years old, from South London engaged in creative activity advancing their education, skills, and capacity.
Rathbone Society is an organisation that supports people with learning disabilities and young people through promoting independence and life skills, supporting people to try new things and creating opportunities for people to come together.
Lambeth Council has already updated the Cemetery Regulations for the Lambeth and Streatham Cemeteries, and has now produced a draft of the intended Regulations for the West Norwood Cemetery. Norwood Forum is hosting this public consultation in order to give local residents the opportunity to comment on the proposed regulations.
Lambeth has just announced it will delay the phasing out of glyphosate spraying on our streets until October 2021. The reason given is that the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that they have had to delay the procurement work related to this service by six months.
Chairman and Manager Ryan King has kindly provided this article about West Norwood FC (WNFC) today – The Black and Blue Army.
Our friends from the Norwood Society have prepared this article on the formation of West Norwood FC (The Bantams).
This year’s COVID-19 delayed FA Cup final will be held a week tomorrow on Saturday 1 August 2020 (5pm) with Arsenal playing Chelsea in a London derby. Its timely then to highlight a sporting visionary who created the FA Cup tournament: Charlie Alcock (1842 –1907). He was an outstanding footballer and cricketer and sports administrator.
Homes for Lambeth have some free online drama sessions for children and young people aged 7-18.These are aimed at families living on the estates that Homes for Lambeth are rebuilding but we are also happy to invite neighbours living near to those estates along too. The estates concerned are: