Your Summer 2025 Lambeth Talk focuses on what’s happening in the borough this season with a cover photo of an open-air audience entertained by a singer.
Summer’s news and features include:
- An introduction from Cllr Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Council, on how celebrating Windrush Day and the Windrush Generation is part of Lambeth’s commitment to making the borough fair.
- News pages including: Lambeth’s tree planting programme looks on target to plant 5000 trees by 2026 with new trees on streets, in parks, and for schools; employers from Glasgow to Bristol shared advice on becoming a Living Wage Place being at the second annual Living Wage Places Conference in Lambeth; and Lambeth Archives’ exhibition of photos and memories of Pride marches in the 1980s and 1990s for LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
- Lambeth’s Civic Awards Ceremony celebrated the local heroes who make Lambeth a better place at a Town Hall awards ceremony.
- Lambeth’s new Mayor, Cllr Adrian Garden, talks about his hopes to see the borough’s continued development with sanctuary for asylum seekers, support for our elderly and vulnerable, the environment, and the protection of women and girls as top priorities.
- Lambeth Civic Awards Arts and Cultural Heritage winners Migrants in Action explain how creativity raises the profile of the Latin community.
- World Refugee Week 2025, recognising ‘community as a superpower’ with events in Lambeth Libraries, Schools of Sanctuary and with local voluntary organisations.
- Details of Windrush Day celebrations featuring a public show sharing personal stories created in partnership with the Empathy Museum, Black Cultural Archives and others in Windrush Square.
- Hercules Road in Waterloo transformed into a greener, calmer, more sustainable space with trees, cycle parking, improved air quality and drainage to reduce urban heat.
- Lambeth Together listening to people’s experiences of health and care services, and what is most important to their families via the Health & Wellbeing Bus.
- What’s on in Lambeth summer listings – movies, theatre, fun runs, Bridgeathon, Victorian Vauxhall, funfairs and much, much more.
- Plans for 300 new affordable homes on Clapham’s Westbury Estate.
Get your copy of Lambeth Talk
- Your Summer Lambeth Talk is being delivered free by post to every household and business in the borough starting this week.
- Or read/download it from Lambeth’s website.
