Have your say - http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/FutureOfWaste

Lambeth Council is asking local people how they want the council to help themrecycle more.

Make sure you have your say: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/FutureOfWaste

Lambeth Women's Event- Tuesday 21 July 2009

Calling all Lambeth Women

Have you been told you're an inspiration? Come along to an evening dedicated to you as a woman of Lambeth.

The theme of the event is celebration and inspiration and will give you as a Lambeth woman the opportunity to recognise and acknowledge the contributions made by other women in your life. Whether this is a member of your family, a colleague, or a friend we invite you bring her with you. The evening will be informal and offer the opportunity to network, share stories, chart journeys and toast achievements.

Attendees will be treated to a night of entertainment with poetry from a local talent - Comfort, and keynote speaker, Vivienne Hayes from the Women's Resource Centre.

The event will be held on 21 July at the Karibu Centre, 7 Gresham Road, SW9, between 6.30pm and 9pm. Refreshments will be provided, please advise of any specific dietary requirements. RSVP along with the name of your guest to Paula Williams, Equalities and Diversity Unit, pwilliams3@lambeth.gov.uk or 020 7926 0088.

Youth Mayor Fund - deadline 20 July 2009

The Youth Mayor Fund provides grants of up to £3000 for young people looking to make a change in their local area.

Applications are open to anyone aged 11 – 19 who lives, works or studies in the London Borough Of Lambeth.

Funding can be used for anything from setting up an arts project on a local estate, a sports project in a local park, a media project from a local youth club, or organising visits or clubs for a local school.

The deadline for applications is 20 July 2009, and more information can be found by visiting http://www.youthmayor4lambeth.com/ or http://www.younglambeth.org/

For additional information contact Alex Goode Email: agoode@lambeth.gov.uk or call 020 7926 2192

Roupell Park Residents Fun Day – Saturday 6 June 2009

Roupell Park Residents Fun Day

United Residents Housing will be hosing a family fun day with Roupell Park Residents Management Committee on Saturday 6 June from 12.30-4.30pm

Roupell Park estate is one of the resident management organisations in Brixton Hill ward, steering the delivery of quality housing, services and improvements on the estates. Residents from the estate make up the 15 strong board members and meet regularly with local councillors to discuss issues.

If you live on the Roupell Park Estate, please come along on Saturday to meet your local board members, local councillors and other residents and to get more involved in the estate. There will be a range of fun activities for all the family, food, information about the repairs and improvements on the estate.

Disabled kids left terrified after Lib Dem smear

Local people were shocked to see Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Chris Nicholson putting out false information about the Livity special needs school in his recent political leaflet.

Nicholson comes from Surrey and has made a fortune working as a consultant to the global war industry. He is using his wealth to pump out propaganda in the hope of buying the parliamentary seat due to be vacated by Labour’s Keith Hill at the next General Election.

Nicholson claimed, untruthfully, that Labour has secret plans to sell off the Livity School site in Brixton Hill for housing. He claims I announced this at a meeting on the neighbouring Blenheim Gardens Estate where he was sitting at the back of the room after being made to sit down by the jeering audience after he attempted to make some rather crude political comments. No one else remembers me saying any such thing – and that's because I never said it. This was nothing more than a scare story this power-hungry Lib Dem invented for political reasons. He didn’t care how distressed his story would leave parents, teachers and children at the school. In fact, he knows nothing about the school – whereas I’ve been working with them for nearly ten years to improve support for the disabled children who go there.

The school itself has written an open letter to Nicholson taking him to task for his unprincipled political game-playing. The chair of governors of the school tells Nicholson in no uncertain terms: “The governors and head teacher were outraged to read the article on our school in your recent political leaflet. It is a great pity you did not care to step inside the gates and learn the facts from the head teacher or myself.

“The governors do not want the Livity School used as a political football. But I must point out to you that it was the Liberal Democrat-led council in the run-up to the last council elections which abruptly withdrew the site identified and previously offered to us by the director of education. As a result, the project to provide state-of-the-art education for the children in our community who need it most was set back by at least three years.”

I am still working with our Labour councillors to help the school find a new, bigger home, and we hope to see the present site used for a new and much-needed primary school in time.

I hope Mr Nicholson will now apologise publicly for making up stories that have terrified some highly vulnerable local children and their families. However desperate the Lib Dems are to fool people into voting for them, making up stories and using children as political footballs is surely wrong even by their low standards.

First published on www.stevereed.org.uk.

A New Mayor for Lambeth - Cllr Christopher Wellbelove

Brixton Hill councillors are delighted that Lambeth has elected a new civic Mayor for 2009/10, Cllr Christopher Wellbelove, Labour councillor for Clapham Town ward.

Mayoral duties include representing the borough at official functions, meeting and greeting dignitaries and helping to raise cash for local charities.

The new Mayor plans to use websites like Twitter and Facebook to let people know what he is doing, and hopes that by embracing technology he will be able to give more people an insight into the role.

Councillor Wellbelove said: "I have thoroughly enjoyed being deputy mayor, which has been excellent grounding to prepare me for becoming Mayor. However I am really looking forward to taking the full role. By using some of the free services available on the internet I hope to extend the reach of the Mayoral role to people who otherwise would not come into contact with the mayor or know about the work that the mayor does in the borough. I hope that this will demonstrate that this very traditional role can be modernised whilst retaining some of the traditional aspects which many people value."

The move to embrace modern communication packages has seen a new website created especially for the mayor: http://www.mayoroflambeth.com/ and you can also follow the Mayor through Twitter at www.twitter.com/mayoroflambeth

Frozen Council Tax

This weekend many people in Brixton Hill recieved their letters from local councillors, Steve Reed, Florence Nosegbe and Betty Evans-Jacas about the Council's decision to freeze Council Tax for 2 years.