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Free online event: Building Vaccine Confidence with African and Caribbean Communities

Building Vaccine Confidence with African and Caribbean Communities - an event with Prof Kevin Fenton, Regional Director for London, Public Health England
Free online event - 16 June 6.30pm

Sutton Council will be hosting a free online event on the 16 June at 6:30pm - open to all residents, particularly those from Black African and Black Caribbean Communities across London - including Lambeth.

Take part in this year's Blooming Lambeth Awards

Nominations are now open for this year's Blooming Lambeth Awards, an opportunity to celebrate community gardening and food activism in the borough. If you or someone you know grows a garden providing healthy food, offering outdoor education, encouraging biodiversity or showing imagination as a growing space or more enter now.

Lambeth Council goes glyphosate free

The council has taken the growing concerns about the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate seriously and is ending its use of glyphosate several months earlier than planned.

Community Safety News

Protect Our Children
Outcomes and a recording of the recent Zoom meeting discussing community concerns over child abduction will be posted here very shortly.
The meeting was at capacity and included contributions from Cllrs Sonia Winifred, Ed Davie and Marcia Cameron, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Streatham, community activists Sandra Moodie and Lee Jasper, and Borough Commander Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove.

Lambeth are running extra Covid-19 PCR testing in West Norwood

Due to a localised rise in new cases, Lambeth are encouraging everyone who lives, works or studies in West Norwood, Clapham, Brixton and Stockwell to take a Covid-19 PCR test whether they have symptoms or not. 
The extra testing is being provided as a precautionary measure after a rise in local infection rates, and some cases of the Delta variant – first identified in India – having been detected in the borough.
There were 179 cases recorded between 24-30 May and the current positive case rate is 54.8 per 100,000 people.

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