Elderly Londoners were “on top of the world” after meeting for the first time in 15 months on Tuesday. Members spent a sun-soaked afternoon relaxing and catching up in the garden of the Albany arts centre in Deptford, after a year of lockdowns and isolation.
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Pavements, roads and buildings across London will be transformed into an outdoor art gallery during the summer as the capital plays host to eight games in the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. Photographs of more than 3,000 Londoners will be pasted across five locations in the capital during the tournament as part of the large-scale public installation “in a celebration of our diversity”.
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A petition has been launched to bring Lewisham’s school meals contract in-house over concerns about the current provider. Chartwells, part of Compass Group UK, came under fire during the pandemic after parents posted pictures of paltry free school meals provided by the company.
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A call to reduce the length of a controversial school meal contract was rejected by Lewisham’s mayor and cabinet on Wednesday. It followed the launch of a petition asking the council not to contract Chartwells at all and bring school meals in-house.
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Students who fancy a career within clinical research can now learn more about it from a prestigious hospital, although they have to be in Year 11. The annual King’s Health Partners (KHP) Summer School, organised by NIHR Guy’s and St Thomas’ Biomedical Research Centre, has opened for applications to local students living in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham.
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Lewisham housing officers removed 19 vulnerable residents from a property reminiscent of “slum housing from the Victorian era”, mayor and cabinet was told on Wednesday. Drug-making equipment, rusty nails, and missing floorboards were found in the property in Lewisham Central ward.
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Lewisham Council is consulting with residents on the future of its libraries to best manage its planned cuts to the service. The council said it wants to better understand how people’s lives have changed during the past year, what issues will be critical to their lives in the next few years, and what is most important to them when using the libraries.
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Lewisham’s mayor and cabinet are set to approve £1.7 million in Section 106 money to fund 33 new specialist homes in Deptford for people suffering homelessness. The housing, to be built on the former Shaftesbury Christian Centre and let at London Affordable Rent (LAR), is set to provide short term tenancies between one and three years for 18 to 35 years olds.
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A petition has been launched to bring Lewisham’s school meals contract in-house over concerns about the current provider. Chartwells, part of Compass Group UK, came under fire during the pandemic after parents posted pictures of paltry free school meals provided by the company.
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Residents in the west of Lewisham could be voting for an MP shared with Southwark rather than Bromley in the next general election, according to proposals from the Boundary Commission for England. The Commission published its initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituencies on Tuesday (June 8) – the changes involve redrawing and renaming some seats.
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A legal charity is trying to raise £1m to support free legal advice agencies facing closure. London Legal Support Trust (LLST) for litigants unable to pay for legal services is running a series of outdoor events this year in a bid to provide access to justice.
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