Those eligible for the free flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster jab are being urged to book their appointments as soon as possible in a new NHS film campaign (see below) aiming to help give peole the best possible protection this winter. The campaign is launched as new research released today suggests that adults in England are severely underestimating the combined threat of COVID-19 and flu this winter.

Lambetrh Council is encouraging people from Black communities to give blood in support of the Bonded by Blood: A Mother’s Story campaign and help the 15,000 people in the UK living with Sickle Cell.

If your child is due to start secondary school in September 2022 in Lambeth now is the time to apply.

The next four day training course to become a community connector is comng up. Connectors support local people by signposting them to suitable local statutory and voluntary support and to enhance partnership working between connectors and services.