The Norwood Bus Garage on Ernest Avenue won Gold at the 2019 UK Bus Awards! Arriva London South won the award for top London Garage in recognition of “best practice, high quality staff and outstanding standards of customer service in the industry”. The team at Norwood, is described as “continually striving for excellence and having recently undergone a transformation programme to help improve operational performance, it has a strong focus on the development of its colleagues and the whole team works closely with the local community.”

The dates have been announced for the 2020 volunteer-powered, hugely creative and fun Crystal Palace Festival. The festival is completely reliable on volunteers and monthly volunteer meet ups have been organised so you can get involved.

The Advocacy Academy is a transformational Social Justice Youth Organising Movement for young people from South London who are passionate about creating a more fair, just and equal society. It’s the only one of its kind in the UK, but follows in the footsteps of a long line of youth movements who have changed the world.The deadline for applications to the class of 2021 at the Advocacy Academy is Midnight on Sunday 9 February.

Your commitment will include three school holiday residential retreats and every Friday evening from September – January in Brixton.

The Metropolitan Police have made further changes to a number of the planned local meetings, and the following updated information is taken mostly from the three Safer Neighbourhood Team websites today (23 January).

These meetings are an opportunity to raise issues informally with our local police teams - at public meetings and drop in sessions over the coming weeks. If you are not sure which ward you live in, click on the following links (which will take you to a ward map):