Your Spring 2025 Lambeth Talk features healthy neighbourhoods, with a cover photo showing a cargo bike in use.
Your Spring news and features include:
- An introduction from Cllr Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Council, about the financial challenge Lambeth faces in saving £99 million over four years, and the investment in services and safer, healthier neighbourhoods the Council has committed do despite those challenges.
- News pages including the results of the Local Government Association’s Peer Challenge on Lambeth, welcoming the council’s commitment to equity and justice; plans for developing a healthy neighbourhood in Kennington; the launch of a hub for women’s reversible contraception; and celebrating Poetic Unity’s 10 years of work with young people.
- New affordable housing in Patmos Lodge.
- A feature on Cycle Sisters, a Muslim women’s group building confidence, health and wellbeing.
- Our Bikes, the community cargo bike share scheme offering an eco-friendly alternative to cars and vans.
- An interview with Cllr Rezina Chowdhury, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Sustainable Lambeth and Clean Air, including Lambeth’s Transport Strategy, Kerbside Strategy and vision for neighbourhoods.
- Catching up with the winners of Lambeth’s first Carer’s Awards.
- Brixton’s Act of Remembrance for the 1999 nail bomber attacks targeting the Black, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.
- Lambeth Archives’ exhibition on the history of circus performance from origins in 18th Century Lambeth.
- Information on community influencers encouraging friends and neighbours to learn to ride bicycles; on new coding classes for kids; licences for private landlords; a free stop smoking app; vaccinations for mothers-to-be; and the reopening of Brockwell Hall as an events and wedding venue.
Get your copy of Lambeth Talk
- Your Spring 2025 Lambeth Talk will be distributed free by post to every household and business in the borough, with deliveries starting in very late March.
- Or read/download it from Lambeth’s website.
