Wednesday, September 13, 2006
BRIXTON NET
NEW NEWSLETTER FOR THE WIDER BRIXTON AREA
September 06 MONTHLY BULLETIN
If you would like your organisation’s events or work featured in the October edition of Brixton NET, please contact Brixton Town Centre on 020 7926 1096 or brixton@lambeth.gov.uk. Copy deadline is 25 Sept
Domestic violence
Lambeth Gaia Domestic Violence Centre is now fully operational. The centre offers services to women over 18 who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence and who live in Lambeth. Staff at the centre can accept referrals from any source, including self-referral. The centre is located at a confidential address and appointments must be booked in advance.
For more information, contact 020 7733 8724 or administrator@gaia-lambeth.com. For a leaflet about the centre and its services, call Lambeth Adults’ and Community Services on 020 7926 5555 or Type talk 18002 020 7926 5555. For refuge information, contact 0808 2000 247.
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
Befrienders needed and offered
Age Concern Lambeth is looking for volunteers to become carers’ befrienders. Befrienders listen, understand and help to give carers a little time for themselves. Age Concern provides training and support for the befrienders and ask for a commitment of just one or two hours a week. If you would like to become a befriender or if you are an older carer and feel you might benefit from a befriender visiting you, please contact Sue Osborne on 020 7346 6804 or s.osborne@aclambeth.org.uk All befrienders are checked by the Criminal Records Bureau.
London Memory Walk
Organised by the Lambeth branch of the Alzheimer’s Society, this promises to be a fun event including a walk by the Thames and music the start and end the day. Held on 26 September, it will be an opportunity to remember loved ones past and present and raise funds for the Society’s work. Walks of varying lengths are available, all starting and ending at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park by the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road. Teams and individuals are welcome. Participants can do as much or as little as they wish.
For more information and registration forms contact Thana on 020 7095 1531 or see www.alzheimers.org.uk/memorywalk. Buses 3, 45, 59 and 159 from Brixton stop nearby, or nearest tube stations are Lambeth North or Elephant and Castle.
Healthy Lifestyles
Lambeth’s Healthy Lifestyles Team have announced a new venue in Brixton as part of the expansion to the Exercise on Referral Scheme. From September, Jessops Primary School, Lowden Road in Herne Hill will host circuit training sessions on Tuesday evenings. Ferndale Community Sports Centre already offers circuit training on Thursday mornings as part of the scheme.
Series of 12-week exercise programmes are run throughout the borough to residents who are at risk of heart disease and who are ready to change their lifestyles by becoming more active. To join the scheme, residents need to be referred by their GP or practice nurse. Activities including gym sessions and aqua aerobics are offered at venues throughout Lambeth.
For more information, contact the Healthy Lifestyle Team on 020 7926 0761, email healthylifestyle@lambeth.gov.uk or visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/healthylifestyles.
Expert energy efficiency advice for community groups
Free and impartial advice workshops on sustainable energy are being offered to community groups in Lambeth by the South East London Energy Efficiency Advice Centre (EEAC).
The sessions will comprise of an information talk followed by opportunities for one-to-one advice about energy-saving, grants and other assistance available to make improvements in the home which increase energy efficiency. The Centre hopes to reduce some of the six tonnes of carbon dioxide produced by each UK household every year and has calculated that the average household could save up to £300 a year by being more energy efficient.
For more information and to book a workshop, please contact the EEAC free on 0800 512 012 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Health awareness round up
Pregnancy Health Month, throughout September
A ‘pramathon’ is being held in Dulwich Park on 9 September for mums and dads and their children. Contact Vicki Badham on 020 7501 6432 or visit www.pramathon.co.uk for more information. Information about pregnancy, including details of a helpline run by midwives, and how health professionals can request a pregnancy information pack, is available on www.tommys.org
Know Your Numbers! Week (blood pressure awareness), 11 to 17 September
Visit http://www.bpassoc.org.uk/ for information, a lifestyle quiz, free information packs for health professionals plus information about the association’s work with African-Caribbean communities.
Migraine Awareness Week, 3 to 9 September
Visit http://www.migraine.org.uk/ for fact sheets, a survey and how a migraine diary can help you manage the condition.
EVENTS AND FESTIVALS
The Big Draw, Brockwell Park, 1 October, 12pm to 3pm
Patterns in the Park - Chalk around the Clock. Free art event for all ages. Meet at the Clock Tower! All welcome - chalk patterns on the main path from Herne Hill Gate to the Clock Tower near Brockwell Hall and cafe. Call 020 7733 9681 or send an email to bigdraw@brockwellpark.com for more details.
Open House weekend, 16 and 17 September
Enjoy a walk or cycle ride around Brixton as many local buildings, including the Town Hall, Brixton Academy, Brockwell House and Effra Sure Start Early Years Centre welcome the public for free. Many of the buildings, all of which are of architectural interest, are usually partially or completely closed to the public. Visit www.londonopenhouse.org.uk to search for participating buildings.
Relocation of Elm Court School – get your voice heard
An informal drop-in session is being held on 12 September for residents interested in the relocation of Elm Court, a secondary school for children with special educational needs. The session is being organised by Lambeth Council’s Building Schools for the Future Team and is a chance to find out and talk about the proposals for the new school. A display about the plans is also on show in the reference library of Brixton Central Library, Brixton Oval.
For more information about the drop in session, contact Matt Eades or Nick Coulton from Building Schools for the Future on 020 7926 3223/1 or meades@lambeth.gov.uk.
Start up your own business
Stockwell Green Community Services (SGCS), OneLondon and JobCentre Plus are holding a joint open day to encourage and support would-be entrepreneurs to start and develop their own businesses. Information about interest free loans from OneLondon, ESOL training, plus support on housing and employment will be on offer.
Saturday 9 September, 1:30pm to 5:30pm, 35 Stockwell Green, SW9, 020 7738 7436.
SGCS also has job opportunities for an administrator / co-ordinator (£20,000 pa), a part time ICT Trainer (£25 per hour) and a part-time teacher in business. Contact SGCS on 020 7738 7436 for more information.
Brixton Area Committee
The committee will next meet on 12 September 2006, 7:00pm in the Assembly Hall of the Town Hall. The meeting will discuss Shakespeare Road academy site assembly and plans as well as Brixton Central Square. All welcome.
BRIXTON AREA FORUM
BAF Business Forum
As well as this month’s Business Forum meeting (details below) the forum is involved in the following meetings and events:
16 September, Angell Town Festival, celebrating the completion of their regeneration. Contact, Devon about stalls for businesses or voluntary groups.
17 September, Visit to Brixton by a delegation from Virginia, USA for the 400th anniversary of the founding of a colony in Virginia. The visit aims to encourage links between African Americans and Brixtonians. Contact Devon to join in the event.
3 October, Launch of the Brixton Large and Corporate Business Forum.
Brixton Business Forum will also be urging Lambeth Council to keep the momentum going to make rebuild Brixton market following the unsuccessful bid to the Big Lottery Fund for £20 million for improvements to the town centre.
Contact Devon.thomas@btinternet.com, 07931 485896 for more information on any of the events above.
Brixton Area Forum meetings
Business Forum – 13 September, 7pm, Acres Business Lounge, Acre Lane
Ferndale meeting – 21 September, 7pm. Venue to be announced.
Herne Hill – 5 October, 7pm, Herne Hill Baptist Church Hall, Half Moon Lane, SE5
Contact Brixton Town Centre office on 020 7926 1096 or brixton@lambeth.gov.uk for more information on any BAF meetings. THANKS TO CLR. BECCA THACKRAY FOR FORWARDING THIS
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