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New green recycling bins – easy as 1,2,3

New green wheelie bins are arriving in Lambeth over the next few weeks. When yours comes, look inside the lid for a guide to what you can recycle. Lambeth Music Please remember to rinse food packaging, bottles and tins and to Festival fold paper and cardboard. Please NEVER put plastic bags, rubbish or food waste in your recycling The annual Lambeth Music Festival arranged on the theme of aspiration. returns to Southbank Centre from bin, or it will be contaminated. The festival also includes a special 21-30 March 2017 to celebrate the They have their own bins. free event at Pop on 25th musical achievements of over 3000 March where bands, singers and Bins are greener for the children and young people from DJs from the Lambeth Music Network environment, saving hundreds across the borough. of thousands of pounds a year will perform their work alongside spent on throwaway plastic sacks. The event captures the energy, focus, schools and music centres. and enthusiasm of young musicians Bins are also safer from foxes 2017 will also see the first Lambeth who will bring their skills right onto and accidents, keeping your Music Festival education conference centre stage of this iconic arts pavement cleaner. at Southbank Centre delivered venue over five days of concerts. by Music Masters on the Some homes will stay on the The opening concert includes a theme of transition and progression recycle sack system and most breathtaking 1800 infants and for young musicians in Lambeth. estates will still use communal juniors performing in the Royal bins. For more information see www.lambethmusic.co.uk/lambeth- Festival Hall singing songs specially www.lambeth.gov.uk/greenbins music-festival.html

WHAT’S ON IN YOUR AREA

Digi buddies Do you need help Wednesday Time: 7 to 8.30pm diversity charity, providing health, surfing on the internet? Why not Streatham Library community and youth services come along to one of the friendly 63 Streatham High Road across London and the South East. sessions held throughout the Streatham 020 8305 5004 borough! Digi-buddies can help give London Lambeth Country Show 2017 you the confidence and skills you SW16 1PN The Lambeth Country Show returns need to get online (Streatham Library). STAR is a free and confidential to on Saturday 15 Polish story time and singing service for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Sunday 16 July 2017, boasting sessions weekly every Friday from trans and questioning (LGBTQ) young a unique line-up that celebrates the 11am to 12.30pm (Streatham Library). people aged 13 – 19, provided by very best of the city and countryside. METRO. STAR youth group is a Applications to exhibit, trade and Book club. Each month we provide friendly and safe place to meet other perform at this year’s show will be you with a copy of one of the books LGBTQ young people, get support open until the end of February, giving from our list, at the next meeting and enjoy activities, trips and everybody enough time to apply you can come along and share workshops about things that matter and organise supporting documents. your views. Do you love it, hate it, or to you. Refreshments are provided. http://lambethcountryshow.co.uk would you recommend it to a friend? METRO is a leading equality and

2 LOCAL NEWS Our Streets Clean air campaign Residents in Streatham are soon about to see exciting improvements Concerned residents and council staff have been taking to the in their local area, with projects streets of Streatham to add their weight to the fight against chosen by local residents starting over the next few weeks and into unnecessary air pollution in the borough. the summer. Lambeth Council’s We all know that vehicle pollutants are linked to a range of health conditions, Our Streets programme saw from asthma and bronchitis, to heart disease and cancer – but many hundreds of residents submit motorists still adopt the bad habit of leaving the engine running when suggestions about improvements stationary. they’d like to see in Streatham South, Streatham Wells, St With funding from the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, twelve councils – including Leonard’s and Thornton wards. Lambeth – have banded together to encourage drivers to give up their idling The projects are funded through habit once and for all. money the council has secured Councillor Brathwaite, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, from local developments and who has been campaigning to clean up Lambeth’s air, said: “We all have a from Transport for London. responsibility to improve air quality in Lambeth. We should all walk and cycle The projects range from installing more and avoiding using cars whenever possible. Drivers should be aware of planters and flower beds, planting the air pollution they cause when idling and how it affects their health and the trees to improve the local health of everyone around, especially children. A simple action such as switching environment, traffic calming off the engine when waiting to pick someone up or if you’re stuck in traffic, measures to deal with rat running can go a long way in helping everyone, including children, to breathe better.” traffic and pedestrian crossings Volunteers and council staff have been distributing information to motorists near some schools. Overall, more and outlining the stack facts about air pollution to those drivers spotted than £800,000 will be invested in with idling engines. Streatham in the next few months on the projects chosen by local In addition to tackling vehicle idling, people. Web: www.lambeth.gov. Lambeth council has also successfully uk/housing/regeneration/ lobbied the Mayor of London to our-streets-the-neighbourhood- include Streatham as one of the first enhancement-programme. two clean bus corridors in London. From October this year, the route between Streatham and Brixton will see exclusive use of hybrid or diesel buses with top-of-the-range anti- pollutant systems that meet or exceed Euro VI emissions standards.

BEST PHOTO LOCAL MARKET Offers in Streatham

Have you joined mi-streatham yet? It’s free, quick & easy to promote your Streatham business to local shoppers: http://mi-streatham.co.uk Visiting Streatham? Park for free in Leigham Court Road car park every Sunday 7am-7pm. www.lambeth.gov. uk/WhereToPark Chuka Umunna MP at the Lambeth Equality Commission event Send us your photo to @lambeth_council

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WHEN YOU RECYCLE RIGHT IN THE Golden Ticket Recycling Prize Draw

Did you know residents and community groups can get rewarded for Recycling Right? Paper, card On 16 December 2016 our fifth Golden Ticket Prize Draw & cardboard saw one lucky resident winning £500 and others winning £250. To be in with a chance of winning in our next draw,

just cut out a Golden Ticket from the inside cover pages, Glass bottles fill it out and pop it in your recycling sack or green & jars recycling wheelie bin along with the clean and dry items listed opposite. Metal tin s, All tickets found with the correct recycling items at the cans & sorting plant will be entered into the next draw on aerosols 24 March 2017.

If you run out of Golden Tickets you can collect more Plastic bottles, from your local library or visit wrwa.gov.uk/goldenticket pots, tubs to print your own. & trays Community groups can also be in wi t h a chance of win n ing

£2,500 by registering on wrwa.gov.uk/goldenticket and Cartons & making a commitment to recycling. Tetra Pak®

Good luc k !

For more details visit wrwa.gov.uk/goldenticket