campaign and follow-ups to May’s Mental Forum Update, Health Month. May 2016 Funding Community Activities in Brixton th A reminder of our meeting on: Tuesday 7 June, 6 pm at Brixton East, Barrington Road SW9 A panel discussion on the future of Thursday 26 May community activities in Brixton and 7 pm at the Vida Walsh beyond, plus the final stages of awarding grants from the Brixton Fund, and an Centre, 2b Saltoun Road SW2 opportunity for local groups to network. (entrance faces Windrush Square) Convened by the Brixton Pound: for more Light refreshments provided. info see www.brixtonpound.org/fund or reserve places at Likely agenda items will be: www.brixtonfund.eventbrite.com Brixton BID: Michael Smith reports on recent progress and Bringing our Communities future plans for promoting and supporting local businesses. Together – next 2 events Brixton Design Trail: Plans Diversity on the Green part 3: are being made for local events Saturday 28, Sunday 29 & Monday 30 to promote creative enterprises May from 12 noon to 7 pm each day, based in Brixton, as part of the Rush Common, Brixton Hill SW2. London Design Festival from Celebrating the festival season and local 17 to 25 September. heroes, music, film, food, natural therapies Regeneration: more news of – opportunities for free community stalls, some of the local projects. contact Andrea Brown on 07 944 102 112, Information Exchange: a n [email protected] opportunity for local groups to om update us on current issues or In association with Its Your Local Market announce coming events. CIC, 243 Milkwood Road, SE24 0JE. Celebrating the Music Festival, The following Forum meeting will Saturday 18 June, details awaited... be on Thursday 28 July, again at 7 A collaboration of entertainment, music, pm at the Vida Walsh Centre. dancers and costume to create a multi- This is planned to be the Annual cultural carnival sensation in Central General Meeting, with reports and Brixton: if you want to get involved, come to a presentation at the Impact Hub in Pop accounts from the past year, and Brixton, Brixton Station Road SW9 on election of the executive Monday 6th June. RSVP to Andrea Brown committee. as above. Ways to Wellbeing New Town Hall underway Lambeth and Southwark Public Health Now that demolition of Town Hall prepares a monthly digest with news of Parade has begun, the developers will specialist grants, training offers and be hosting meetings with surrounding consultations on health & social care: see residents groups every 2 months to https://lambethwellbeing.wordpress.com/2 016 and follow the links. The latest edition pick up any issues that arise during includes the Youth Health Champion building work. Several sites are involved beside the Town Hall itself, AdvN\ BS\ Bx Fm\ Bulletin May 16.doc 1 including Hambrook House on Brixton Enquiries/ reservations to Rebecca Hill and Iver House on Acre Lane. Trevalyan on 07 584 084 313 or Work to replace Olive Morris House will [email protected] follow on once the new Civic Offices are Support for Local Sports ready. Enquiries to Charlotte Wills on Lambeth’s Community Sports Team 0344 225 0003 or e-mail [email protected] are hosting an evening for groups active in sport or physical activities within the borough. This will be on Support for Carers Tuesday 14 June, 6 pm to 8-30 pm at Carers Hub Lambeth are hosting a 336 Brixton Road, SW9. Carers Forum on Thursday 9th June, Details will be available of funding 10 am to 3 pm at The Foundry, 17 opportunities and other support. Oval Way, SE11 5RR. Information also available on job This is a free event, providing information opportunities in this field, and an upcoming on services and support available in series of capacity-building workshops to Lambeth, with refreshments. Carers of all run through the next 12 months. To ages welcome but please book by e-mail register, or find out more, e-mail t o [email protected] or phone [email protected] or phone the the Carers Hub on (020) 7501 8970. Team on (020) 7926 0396. Health & Wellbeing Forum New Film records the The next meeting of the Health & African-Caribbean Wellbeing Voluntary and Community Sector Forum will be on Thursday 16 experience in Britain J u n e from 10 am to 12-30 pm at “Keep Calm” is an independent full- Lambeth College, 45 Clapham length socio-historical documentary. Common Southside, SW4 9BL. The movie comprehensively explores Enquiries to Valerie Dinsmore (Children, race relations and immigration through Adults and Health services) at (020) 7926 the chronicles of the African-Caribbean 4682 or [email protected] community in the United Kingdom. It’s a revealing story about a dramatic multi-generational mobilization to change Open Project Nights and shape modern Britain. It covers Impact Hub Brixton is opening its doors ground back from the colonisation of every Monday night for you to meet, Jamaica up to the issues that the network, trade skills and find collaborators community is confronted with in the for your community projects, new present day. enterprises and brainstorming sessions for The cast includes Devon Thomas, Dr Lez a better Lambeth. It’s open to everyone Henry, George “Fowokan” Kelly, Dr Les and completely free! Black and others. There’s also an important parallel emphasis on personal When? Every Monday, 6-30 to 10-30 pm experience via the stories of 4 members of (except bank holidays). 3 generations of the Baileys – Gloria, Where? Impact Hub at Pop Brixton, 49 Charles, Grace and Bianca. Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ. Food? Bring your dinner or food to share We are still in post-production and are – at 7-30 you are invited to stop work and launching a crowd-funding campaign this join us to eat. month to help finalise the production to an Who’s behind it? Open Project Night is a international standard. We will donate joint project of Impact Hub Brixton, most funds exceeding our target to the Transition Town Brixton, Lambeth Co- Black Cultural Archives and Mind. operative Centre and more. We hope you will enjoy our teaser video and can leave us some feedback via e- AdvN\ BS\ Bx Fm\ Bulletin May 16.doc 2 mail, or on Twitter @KeepCalmDocu or on been moved sideways to Children and Facebook: Education. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=juuxV4fh5ng&hd=1 Please find more information on Pop Brixton is 1! www.keepcalm.film Pop Brixton is marking its first year of operation with a 4-day extravaganza of Veronika Atanasova & Bogdan Hristov festivities, over 2 – 5 June: [email protected] Thursday 2nd: Pop Feast birthday supperclub with all our food vendors; ...and films at the Mill rd Brixton Windmill is hosting an open air Friday 3 : Prohibition-themed birthday ball; film show on the evening of Saturday th 4th June: doors open 8 pm with the Saturday 4 : Birthday party with our biggest-ever music line-up; show starting at 9 pm. th The big picture is the popular musical Sunday 5 : Shop til you pop market, Moulin Rouge, starring Nicole Kidman with all our traders and everything they and Ewan McGregor. The programme create. also includes a short film about Brixton More details at www.popbrixton.org Windmill, produced for its bicentenary with financial support from the Forum. Admission is free but space is limited so it Defining our Area will be first come, first served. More info at You may have picked up our flyer at www.brixtonwindmill.org.uk the last meeting about defining the area covered by the Neighbourhood Forum. Since then we have been Libraries feel pressure busy with other matters including Brixton Tate Library has seen a surge seeking fresh funding for this year’s in demand since closure of the Minet activities, but we are about to e-mail all and Carnegie libraries. Study space in our contacts to canvass views on what particular is crowded. 24-hour security streets and estates we should cover. is in place at both closed libraries, pending GLL setting up their proposed gyms. The Guardian reports that this Share your news is costing £2212 a day, compared with Are you planning an event in the next £874 a day to keep both libraries few months? Do you want more open! No planning applications have people to join in your group’s work? been seen yet. Send us your news and we will try to include it in these e-mail bulletins. At Minet Library, Lambeth Archives are once again open as normal, though a How to contact us study has finally started on investigating Announcements for our next issue (late alternative sites. Meanwhile the Friends of June) or any changes to your contact Minet Library are continuing fortnightly details should be sent to: Alan Piper, gardening sessions on new raised beds Forum Secretary, (020) 7207 0347 or at laid out in front of the building – the next [email protected] are on Saturdays 28 May and 11 June, 2 pm to 4 pm. Forum Chair: Devon Thomas, [email protected] Councillor Jack Hopkins recently took on 07 954 440 696 responsibility for libraries and parks, in addition to his previous Cabinet role for Web: http://brixtonforum.btck.co.uk jobs and growth. Cllr Jane Edbrooke has AdvN\ BS\ Bx Fm\ Bulletin May 16.doc 3.