Council staff at Brixton town hall and across Lambeth can now spend three working days per year volunteering with local charities and community groups. Nearly 3,000 employees are being encouraged …
Take One: Inspiring Minds Forum @ Mango Landin Mango Landin has started a series of ‘Inspiring Minds‘ forums every Tuesday and the forum t ...
The Lambeth councillor responsible for culture says a smaller scale version of the Country Show could still go ahead in 2012. Speaking to the Brixton ...
By Tim Dickens, Editor The leader of the opposition at Lambeth council has “called-in” the controversial decision to cancel this year̵ ...
Kaye Wiggins reports on 2010 in Brixton – a year of elections, closed leisure centres, happy lido days, rising market rents and a jerk chicken festival. 2010 has been ...
Guest blogger, Kaye Wiggins, finds a more concrete policy in Lambeth’s cooperative council plans You can picture the tabloid headlines already, can’t you? As part of its plan to become ...
In the week of the first birthday of the Brixton Pound, we investigate a new idea for the local economy Music, cake and even photo-calls with the mayor were in ...
On the eve of Brixton Pound’s first birthday, Brixton has become a ‘clone town’, according to a survey released today by the new economics foundation. It studied the number of chain ...
Guest blogger Kaye Wiggins, journalist for Third Sector magazine, reports from last night’s co-operative council meeting About 70 residents gathered in a warm, crowded room in Lambeth town hall last ...
Lambeth council staff have been ‘on the road‘ in the past few weeks, spreading the gospel of the co-operative council. In each part of the borough, they set up stalls ...