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Southwark LifeSummer 2019 An inspiration Celebrating Southwark’s rising stars Borough of opportunity How to follow your dreams New homes, schools and salons Transforming our borough for everyone PLUS Events and fun in the sun this summer Your magazine from Southwark Council Summer 2019 Contents welcome... 4 Need to know – News from the council and across the borough Southwark is a great place to be young: to find your feet, 7 Sumner Road – We visit the discover your passion, and gain the skills you need for a happy brand new council homes on and rewarding life. This summer edition of Southwark Life is Sumner Road dedicated to inspiration and opportunity. We tell the stories 8 Our inspirational young of some of our incredible young people who have worked people – Our bumper feature hard to overcome barriers and excel in their chosen field, on inspiring young people from and also hear from some inspirational adults with sound around the borough advice on how to get on in life. I hope young people will 17 Blast from the past – We find plenty here to spark their curiosity, and give them chat to a resident who spotted confidence to chase their dreams. herself in a historic photo display As the long summer holidays approach, there’s no reason 18 Inspiring adults – Meet three local people why any child or young person should find themselves at a loose who have messages for our end in Southwark. From free entry to world class galleries and younger generation events, to award-winning parks, free swim and gym sessions at all 24 Southwark Presents – our leisure centres, and fun things happening at all our libraries, Music, plays and exhibitions there is something exciting happening on our doorstep every day. taking place this summer Dip into this edition of Southwark Life to find out what’s going 28 An inspirational history on this summer in our amazing borough. – we look at those who inspired young people in the past And finally, I’m delighted to share news that residents have moved into 70 brand new council homes the council has built in Sumner 31 Business News – our new Road, Peckham. We have committed to delivering 11,000 new page packed with information council homes by 2043, with 635 already built, to help tackle the for local businesses housing crisis and make sure all our residents have homes they can be proud of. Best wishes, Peter John Leader of Southwark Council Contact us The Southwark Life team Keep in touch Do you have something to say about Southwark Editor Louise Neilan Southwark Life is a quarterly magazine and the next Life? Write to: Your letters, Southwark Life, Assistant editor Kim Hooper issue is due out in autumn 2019. You can contact the Fourth Floor North, Southwark Council, Contributors Alexey Underwood, Mike 160 Tooley Street London, SE1 2QH or email McGann, Terri-Anne Powell, Jane Evans, magazine at [email protected] but [email protected] Dr Patricia Dark, Aine Gallagher, Emma for more regular updates on council news and events, Moseley, Zaid Al-Najafi follow us on social media at Our front cover star is Augusta Sesay, a designated Design Whatever Design Ltd braids specialist working at Peckham Palms, (see facebook.com/southwarkcouncil article on Page 6). Originally from Sierra Leone, Print brokered by Swiss Post Augusta has lived in the borough for seven years Printed on 100% recycled paper @lb_southwark and is mum to twin girls. Photo courtesy of Jamie Distribution London Letterbox Instagram.com/southwarkcouncil Simonds Photography. All information correct at time of going to press. southwark.gov.uk 3 Summer 2019 Summer fun Does your London Bridge and Borough Need to know... in Southwark Disabled Freedom Market incident support With the long summer Pass expire in Many people can be affected by traumatic events and, as a holidays not far away, it can community, we want to make sure we support survivors of, and be difficult to find things March 2020? people bereaved through terrorism. The emotional impact of Summer is a busy time in to keep our children and young people witnessing or being affected by a terrorist incident can be felt If your Freedom Pass is set to entertained. But there is loads of fun to be for days, weeks, months, or even years. expire in 2020, please keep an eye Southwark – find out what’s been had in Southwark this summer, and you out over the coming weeks and can find it all in one place on the council’s Following the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks in going on, what’s coming up, and months for a letter from us asking Southwark Presents website, which is London Bridge and Borough Market, and the recent inquests, you to renew your pass. packed full of events and activities for all we feel it’s important we continue to highlight a number of how you can get involved. Once you receive your letter, please the family. Go to www.southwark.gov.uk/ support services that can help you if you feel affected by them. follow its instructions and complete southwarkpresents the included form so that a new For news and events follow us on social media or find out For full details of the support of offer, please visit pass can be ordered for you by the more at southwark.gov.uk/news www.southwark.gov.uk/londonbridgesupport time your current one runs out. Follow us on Facebook facebook.com/southwarkcouncil Double gong for Peckham kids Follow us on Tate of the art Twitter @lb_southwark A huge congratulations to a very talented group of children from Peckham’s Ledbury Cementing Southwark’s status as Follow us on and Lindley housing estates who have won one of the UK’s key cultural hubs, Tate Modern, one of the borough’s Instagram Instagram.com/southwarkcouncil not one, but two awards for their animated film, ‘The Foodbank and the Fidget Spinner’ crown jewels, was named the UK’s at the Into Film Awards. The 11 children, most popular tourist attraction ranging in age from 6 to 13 and working last year, with 5.86 million visitors together as the Bell Gardens Animation Club, passing through its doors in 2018. produced the stop-motion animated film to With free entry and a selection of battle the stigma of using food banks and to free exhibitions, why not give it a Climate highlight issues of poverty and bullying. visit over the summer months? If emergency you’re looking for other calm and help clean You can view the short film right here: welcoming spaces to spend time Southwark’s www.facebook.com/IntoFilm/ this summer, why not visit one of our fabulous libraries - Canada #Onething Southwark Council has reinforced videos/581683375667298/ air Water library is our busiest, having its commitment to combatting welcomed 435,617 guests in 2018- carbon emissions and rising 2019. With a huge selection of global temperatures by joining the Dolly Parton’s books, activities and classes on international Climate Change Campaign offer, our libraries have something and declaring a Climate Change Emergency. A new home for Imagination Library to keep everyone informed and The council has been working to reduce its emissions Southwark Works entertained this summer. for some time, cutting them by 37 per cent since 2010. If you have a young child and live in Southwark, you can But we all need to do what we can to help achieve carbon make bedtime into book time by signing up to Dolly Parton’s Funded by Find out more about our libraries at neutrality by 2030. Southwark Council, Imagination Library. Your child will receive a book in the post, every month, until their fifth birthday – absolutely free. www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Southwark Works or follow them on Whether you live, study, work in or simply visit Southwark, It’s a free book scheme that launched in 1995, brought to the offers high quality Twitter @SouthwarkLibs we can all help clean the borough’s air. You may have employment support to Southwark residents borough through a partnership between Southwark Council, seen our new campaign on buses and billboards around who are looking for a job or apprenticeship local company DialAFlight and the Dollywood Foundation. the borough – we’re asking that we all come together and or want to progress in work. The team Register at www.imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability/ pledge to make one change to help improve air quality. at Southwark Works also provides a For example, you could choose Click and Collect when recruitment service to employers looking shopping online to cut down traffic congestion and air to appoint local candidates. The office will pollution caused by lots of deliveries being driven to home be moving from its current location at Your Future, Your Ambition and work addresses – or perhaps you could leave your Elephant and Castle shopping centre to 376 car at home, as it’s often faster to walk or cycle to your Walworth Road, SE17 2NG from Wednesday In October more than 1,000 young people from Southwark and across London will attend the “Your Future Your destination, depending on the distance. You can find plenty 24 July 2019. Due to the move, Southwark Ambition” event at the Emirates Stadium. YFYA is an award winning initiative developed to inspire, excite and more tips on how to help clean up our air here: Works will be closed for drop-ins from engage diverse talent in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM). YFYA www.southwark.gov.uk/environment/ 11 to 23 July, 2019.