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Revitalising Rush Common

Help us revitalise the woodland walk alongside Brixton Hill by telling us how you use it, and what might improve it for you and your family.

Kids from 12 schools competed to be fastest recyclers as well as the best goal-scorers at a football tournament organised by Veolia

Blowing the final whistle on single use plastic

Lambeth schools gave plastic the boot in a day of football with SportsFusion with packed lunches, refillable water bottles and taking part in a recycling challenge.

Pre-school age blonde girl with hair in bunches wearing a superman cape and outfit putting rubbish into a green bag on a Lambeth street (photographed from behind)

‘Make a change’ says Street Champion

As well as co-ordinating a day to build and plant planters to improve the environment of the West Norwood street where she lives, Lambeth Street Champion Esther features “local...

Mother and daughter identifying insects on a white sheet with the help of a long-hbaired insect expert and an inect identification sheet in white panama hat and white t-shirt as part of a project in Knight's Hill Woods to improve the habitat for local wildlife

Woodland Memories, Heritage and Community with Nature Vibezzz

Local charity Nature Vibezzz is teaching children to build wildlife habitats in the woods as part of the project to bring Knights Hill Wood, West Norwood, back to life...

Red Admiral Burrefly with broad red bands on black front wings and red outline to back wings

Plant a patch for pollinators

Rain and snow earlier this year make it harder for butterflies to survive this summer. Planting patches of nectar-rich flowers now will make up for lost time and lost...

Man in wooly hat holding compost bin lid open with one hand while putting cut tree branch in with the other

Get composting! It’s easy and it’s good for the Earth

You can make compost with garden waste and/or with food waste. Even if you don’t have a garden to make (or need) compost, you will still be doing good...

White-letter hairstreak butterfly sitting with wingsv folded showing the white 'W' on light brown underwings

Butterfly comeback in Lambeth park?

Lambeth’s Parks Team planted a new species of disease-resistant elm tree in Vauxhall 10 years ago and there are signs it could be helping an elm-loving endangered butterfly make...

2 men in blue boiler suits working to restore the concrete pools of the Cascade water feature, Streatham Rookery

Facelift for Rookery water feature

Streatham’s Rookery Cascade was part the new municipal garden when it opened in 2013. More than a century later, it’s being fully restored for replanting with the help of...