Summer 2024’s 24-page Lambeth Talk summer special edition, focusing on children and young people in the borough, is available free now to be delivered to your home or business, or for online download.
Your summer special news and features include:
- Introduction from Cllr Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Council, about Lambeth’s support for young people in the school holidays with 30,000 places in holiday clubs for families who get benefit-related school meals in term time.
- News pages including plans to design in green spaces free of traffic at Kennington Oval and the Council’s investment in services for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
- A look back on his year as Lambeth’s first Poet Laureate, Abstract Benna, with a poem about the importance of young people’s creativity.
- An interview with Cllr John-Paul Ennis, Lambeth’s youngest-ever Mayor, including his ideas on reframing the way we think about young people in the borough to focus on youth safety, not youth crime.
- Lambeth’s Holiday Activities and Food scheme from 29 July-30 August, offering multisports, art and dance as well as healthy meals and fresh fruit for snacking.
- Summer in Lambeth Libraries with free stories, book clubs and activities, including ukelele and football loans, with details of this year’s six-books-in-six-weeks “Summer Reading Challenge”.
- News of £5million support for families facing the cost of Living crisis.
- Creative opportunities for young people with Raw Material and free coding classes from Millennium Community Services.
- News on Lambeth’s Aims to become an Autism-Friendly Borough .
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 July.
- Or read/download it from Lambeth’s website
