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Crowdfund Lambeth

Lambeth Council is launching a new way of providing funding to new community projects and initiatives which match the priorities identified in the Co-operative Local Investment Plans (CLIPs). These funds come from the tax that developers pay when they build new homes, offices and shops in the borough.

Volunteer for Feast in 2018!

Feast is run almost entirely by volunteers; a team of local people comes together each year to 'make West Norwood an even better place to live'. It is volunteers who book the hundred or so market stalls, who organise the free activities, who schedule the musical performances. This is a pretty impressive thing, but they can always do with more help!

Lambeth Together: health and care services in Lambeth

Lambeth Together is an exciting new development, bringing together different organisations to work together to co-ordinate and deliver health and care services in our Borough. There will be a fully integrated care system for people who live and work in Lambeth. You can read more about their plans in the presentation on their website, which includes at slide 12 ways you can get involved now. 

In brief, Lambeth Together is being developed as a collaboration between those who have a major role to play in these services and local people:

Involvement opportunity - Healthy London Partnership

The Healthy London Partnership is a collaboration of London’s health and care system to support the delivery of better health in London. Two patient representatives are sought to sit on the London Choosing Wisely Steering Group.

Crime Statistics

Norwood Forum will be reporting regularly on crime in West Norwood using data obtained from the Metropolitan Police.  Below are the top three reported crimes in December 2017 for each Ward. For Knights Hill and Thurlow Park burglary and assault without injury were the major reported criminal activity and in Gipsy Hill drugs offences and theft from vehicles topped the list. 

 

 

Knollys Goods Yard

Over the last year there has been a lot of activity regarding the Knollys Goods Yard, the triangular shaped land surrounded by railway tracks that is off Knollys Road and owned by Network Rail.

Chapel Road – community garden

Jason Prentis of Veolia has done a number of great projects to improve Norwood.  Most of the street planters are his work and he has organised clear up campaigns.  His new plan is to create a community garden at the junction of Knight’s Hill and Chapel Road to turn it from an unloved illegal dumping ground into something we can all enjoy and be proud of.  The Garden has been designed by local resident Tessa Parikian - 

Police drop-in meetings

Your local police teams are holding regular ward-based drop-in meetings and all are welcome to attend. Notice of these meetings is published on the met police website (your area section), some with more notice than others. Published information as of today (5 February) is as follows:

Gipsy Hill

Drop-in surgery

An Everyman Cinema to open in Crystal Palace.

The Palace Cinema Campaign announced last week that Everyman plan to “restore a four-screen cinema to Crystal Palace, bringing films to audiences on the big screen on a regular basis for the first time in fifty years.”

The Campaign will provide a further update once more is known. The original catalyst for the campaign back in June 2009 was the sale of the Gala Bingo Hall, 25 Church Road (the former 1920's art deco Rialto cinema), to Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC).

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