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Read about all of the exciting work that we are doing to help our residents to live healthy lifestyles. We provide a wide range of services for people who need extra support, from fostering and adoption, to residential care for the elderly, to sexual health services.

Older lady adjusting thermostat

Warm and Well in Winter 2017 campaign by Age UK Lambeth

Age UK Lambeth offer community groups advice and grants to help spread the message to older people of ways to keep warm, well and out of hospital this winter.

An image taken on the London underground with a tube train in the foreground and a 'do it your way' campaign poster behind

Do It London shortlisted for prestigious Campaign of the Year award

London’s ground-breaking HIV prevention campaign, Do It London, is one-of-six campaigns that have been shortlisted across the UK for the Campaign of the Year category at the distinguished LGC...

Image showing Cllr Meldrum with staff and residents of a Lambeth care home posing with the red bag

Lambeth rolls out ‘red bag’ initiative

Lambeth has introduced the ‘Red Bag’ initiative in a bid to improve transfers of care and increase the communication between care homes and hospitals so that patients receive better...

A hockey match at the London Youth Games

Lambeth gets ready for upcoming London Youth Games season

School children throughout Lambeth are gearing up for another year of exciting sporting activity when the London Youth Games recommences later this month.

Portuguese Community Wellbeing Partnership St Martin's 11 Nov 2017 with edible chestnuts on branch & translation Dia de Sao Martinho'

Celebrate St Martin’s Day

Excerpt: Join us for a St Martin’s Day celebration with information from the Council’s health partners and the Lambeth Portuguese Community Wellbeing Partnership (LPCWP)

New quit line helps Lambeth residents kick the habit

Smokers in Lambeth who crave a simple and convenient way to kick the habit can now get advice from a new London helpline, which provides personal coaching and support.

Calling all Londoners – Make a ‘Small Change, Big Difference’ to eat healthily and fight food waste

Did you know, over half the 900,000 tonnes of food thrown away in London each year is perfectly edible? Wasting it makes no sense either environmentally or economically.

Woman in blue among green plants on tall poles in Brockwell Park GP surgery garden

Transforming spaces, changing lives – Lambeth GP Food Co-op

Lambeth GPs’ patients – especially those with long-term health conditions – can learn how to grow food in a safe and secure environment.

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