Brixton Blog

The trustees of Thrale Almshouse and Relief in Need Charity have opened this year’s grant programme, designed to support community groups and local organisations in Brixton, Streatham, Tulse Hill, West Norwood, Balham, and Tooting – in the “ancient parish” of Streatham.

For more information and to apply, visit the charity’s website at bit.ly/Thrale24

The deadline for applications is Friday 6 December 2024 and grants will be awarded in Spring 2025.

As one Brixton chicken shop closes, another opens – although there are few similarities between them.

Other Side Fried – the only restaurant in the chain – reopened as Buster’s Hamburger Bar on 1 November after frying chicken on Atlantic Road since 2017.

Owners Matt Harris and Tommy Kempton began the brand from a van in 2014. They also own the small plates restaurant Ploussard in Clapham with its list of low intervention, biodynamic and natural wines.

Brixton is one of the 115 Post Offices threatened with closure under plans announced today (13 November) by the provider.

The company wants to get rid of Post Offices it owns directly and shift their functions into “partners” like W H Smith – which already houses Streatham’s Post Office.

The move is estimated to put 1,000 jobs at risk.

The plan comes as the Post Office is still under fire for the Horizon accounting scandal.

Lambeth council’s new private renting licensing scheme will soon apply to most of the borough.

The council’s cabinet has approved the extension of the “selective licensing scheme” which is designed to tackle rogue landlords and improve conditions for tenants in private rented accommodation.

It was launched in four wards earlier this year.

An enforcement plan will focus on “specific streets with high predicted issues”.

The council said an “educational approach” will be taken when dealing with non-compliance.

This year’s Remembrance Day ceremony in Brixton on Sunday (10 November) will be the first unified ceremony for several years. Previous years have seen two separate events.

The service, starting at 2pm, will take place at the African and Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square and marks the 10th anniversary of its unveiling in the Black Cultural Archives three years before it was installed on the square, and the 110th year since the start of the First World War.

Faiths Together in Lambeth is marking this year’s Inter-Faith Week to promote peace and harmony in our communities with a peace walk on Wednesday 13 November.

It will go via Brixton, starting in Streatham and ending at the Jamyang London Buddhist centre in Kennington.

On the way, participants will stop at five faith establishments for about 10 or 15 minutes each for a quick guided tour of the establishment, and an opportunity to learn more about the faith it represents.

Lambeth council is working with Global Street Art to install murals across the borough as part of the London Mural Festival which runs from today (5 September) to the end of the month.

It will showcase more than 100 murals from some of the world’s best street artists. Themed around “connection”, the festival says it will bring together thousands of artists, communities, and visitors to celebrate London’s diverse people and places.

People facing hardship in the Lambeth and Croydon area received 27,109 emergency food parcels in the past year, with 9,632 of these going to children, figures released today (15 May) by The Lambeth Partnership of Foodbanks have revealed.

The partnership, which warned that donations from the public are no longer meeting the demand for help, saw a 9.5% increase in the number of emergency food parcels distributed compared to last year.

There was a 40 % increase in the number of pensioners receiving parcels compared to 2022/23.

A much anticipated and packed meeting to hear a joint Lambeth council and Metropolitan police plan to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in Brixton ended in disappointment last night (27 March).

Peter Impey, one of the founders of the grass roots residents’ organisation Action on ASB! (AOASB) which organised the meeting, told the full-capacity audience in St Matthew’s church opposite Lambeth town hall in Brixton: “We’ve worked so hard to try and get the police and the council to work together and this was not what we were expecting.”

Lambeth council has suspended the controversial Streatham Wells low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) trial that was introduced in October last year.

It simultaneously announced work on a major project to update the A23/Streatham High Road for walking and cycling as well as a “comprehensive package of bus priority measures” that is due to start in late Spring, causing “some reduced road capacity” while it lasts.

The council said the scheme had “met our objectives to reduce traffic and road danger’”.