Get your News from Lambeth in Lambeth Talk Winter 2024

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Your Winter 2024 Lambeth Talk features young people at one of Lambeth’s new Barbershop safe spaces on the front cover.

Your Winter Lambeth Talk news and features include:

An introduction from Cllr Claire Holland, Leader of Lambeth Council, about the new Government’s first budget; welcoming the change to a government willing to work with local authorities but warning that public funding shortages are likely to mean difficult decisions at council level.

News including the £4million investment in Brixton Rec to provide a home for two local charities; the winning entry in a competition for young people to use their creativity to support SEND pupils; planting to create a bigger wildlife area in Brockwell Park; and Lambeth Council working with the local LGBTQ+ community and businesses to bring Pride back to the borough in 2025.

Healthy Streets – an update on the 40 streets in Lambeth where traffic measures are reducing road danger and air pollution near schools.

The Budget and Lambeth’s hopes for support from ventral government in tackling the housing crisis and more.

Meet the Cabinet – Cllrs Jacqui Dyer and Tim Windle, Lambeth’s Cabinet Members for Healthier Communities, talk about the health and adult social care portfolio, including vaccinations, tackling health inequalities and the new Carers Charter.

The Barbershop experience – offering safe spaces in three locations across the borough where young people can come and express themselves.

Plus Lambeth Sanctuary Services Christmas appeal to buy toys for asylum seekers; Cost of Living support in Lambeth; Launch of a disability and assistive technology buildings audit from Millennium Community Services; advice on the deadlines on applying for a primary school place; and a chance to win Imax tickets by completing a survey on Lambeth’s night time economy.

Get your copy of Lambeth Talk

Your Winter 2024 Lambeth Talk will be distributed free by post to every household and business in the borough, with deliveries starting by December.

Or read/download it from Lambeth’s website.