Autumn 2024’s 24-page Lambeth Talk news magazine, is available free now to be delivered to your home or business, or for online download.
Your Autumn Lambeth Talk news and features include:
- Introduction from Cllr Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Council, about the housing crisis, Lambeth’s actions on tackling it – clamping down on rogue landlords, work on homelessness prevention, and welcoming the Government’s new targets for housebuilding, planning reforms and proposals on using the “grey belt” to create more housing.
- News pages including Lambeth’s recognition by LGBTQ+ campaigners Stonewall as one of the UK’s top 100 employers for inclusivity and support; first-time Green Flag awards for Lambeth parks in Rush Common and Unigate Wood; an update on Lambeth’s work with partners on making the borough a Living Wage Place; updates on building hundreds of new homes and gaining an award for working with young homeless people; and ‘Bike the Borough’ – a day when 14 primary schools showed off their cycling skills and confidence in a three-mile ride.
- Lambeth’s Heritage Festival – a month-long collection of walks, talks, art exhibitions, and more curated by Lambeth Archives – including visits to the borough’s 200-year-old St Matthew’s, St Mark’s, St Luke’s and St John’s churches; Art Deco in Streatham; and ‘Shakespeare in Lambeth’ events in September to celebrate the return to Lambeth’s Archives of three collections of plays published 400 years ago.
- New international classes in Lambeth schools for sanctuary-seekers newly arrived in the UK.
- Information on cost of living help, Ageing Well in Lambeth, improving recycling, October’s celebration of Black History Month in Lambeth Libraries, ‘back to school’ activities including swim schools for young people in Active Lambeth’s Leisure Centres, a unique IT training opportunity for women, becoming a foster carer and more.
Get your copy of Lambeth Talk
- Your new Lambeth Talk will be distributed free by post to every household and business in the borough, with deliveries starting in the last week of August.
- Or read/download it from Lambeth’s website
