News

My Best Life is now LIVE! A new app to help connect young people (aged 15-18) in Lambeth to services in their area has gone live in beta this week.

Nominations are now open for this year's Blooming Lambeth Awards, an opportunity to celebrate community gardening and food activism in the borough. If you or someone you know grows a garden providing healthy food, offering outdoor education, encouraging biodiversity or showing imagination as a growing space or more enter now.

The council has taken the growing concerns about the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate seriously and is ending its use of glyphosate several months earlier than planned.

Lambeth Council states it has launched an innovative strategy to transform customer service. 

The Boundary Commission for England has published its latest proposals to redraw the map of Parliamentary Constituencies across England.

Protect Our Children
Outcomes and a recording of the recent Zoom meeting discussing community concerns over child abduction will be posted here very shortly.
The meeting was at capacity and included contributions from Cllrs Sonia Winifred, Ed Davie and Marcia Cameron, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Streatham, community activists Sandra Moodie and Lee Jasper, and Borough Commander Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove.

Due to a localised rise in new cases, Lambeth are encouraging everyone who lives, works or studies in West Norwood, Clapham, Brixton and Stockwell to take a Covid-19 PCR test whether they have symptoms or not. 
The extra testing is being provided as a precautionary measure after a rise in local infection rates, and some cases of the Delta variant – first identified in India – having been detected in the borough.
There were 179 cases recorded between 24-30 May and the current positive case rate is 54.8 per 100,000 people.

Councillor Claire Holland has been elected as the new Leader of Lambeth Council, following the earlier resignation of Councillor Jack Hopkins.

Lambeth Larder is a social enterprise based in south London. They make free resources to help connect local people to emergency food and other help, like advice and debt support, mental health services, etc. They formed a valuable link in the help and support chain of information during the height of Covid-19. Here is their website: www.lambethlarder.org/

Volunteering opportunities from Team Lambeth this week: