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Small Charities: transform your fundraising & governance

Sign up now for the FSI low-cost training sessions that cover a wide range of fundraising techniques and back office skills delivered by experienced and knowledgeable trainers.If you’re a #smallbutvital charity in or around London, don’t miss the FSI's popular small charity training on 4 and 5 February 2020.

Rosendale Road to Gipsy Hill: proposed Healthy Route

Lambeth Council  has developed a range of improvements for walking and cycling along Rosendale Road, as part of the Brockwell Park to Gipsy Hill Healthy Route project and they want your views on the designs.

The main changes proposed on Rosendale Road with the planned design are:

Crystal Palace Festival 2020

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.

Norwood Bus Garage wins Gold!

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 Advocacy Academy

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.

Crystal Palace International Film Festival

The film festival returns with:

  • 120 films: 11 World Premieres, 14 European premieres; 12 UK premieres and 19 London premieres
  • Q&As with filmmakers from around the world.
  • Food and Drink, including Vietnamese Street Food and Crystal Palace's own Comfort & Joy.
  • 4 Fabulous venues.
  • Johnny Vegas presenting the CPIFF Awards

Brockwell Park Summer festivals

There will be three festivals held over one weekend in Brockwell Park from Friday  5 June to Sunday 7 June 2020 (click on the links for the festival websites listing booked artists (so far), food, drink and other info.):

Lambeth Country Show - book your pitch soon

Bookings recently opened for sites at this summer’s Lambeth Country Show, which will be held in Brockwell Park on the weekend of Saturday18 and Sunday 19 July 2020.

Traders, caterers, charities and community groups must book by 4pm on Friday 14 February 2020.

Musical acts, entertainers and other performers have until Friday 28 February 2020.

To apply, and further details about the show are all on the Lambeth Country Show website.

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