Community award for swimming teacher
59 MINS AGO - Lambeth swimming teacher Rhys Smith has won the Nick Francis Community Award for his work leading Expand
59 MINS AGO - Lambeth swimming teacher Rhys Smith has won the Nick Francis Community Award for his work leading supported swimming sessions at Clapham Leisure Centre for disabled people with long-term health conditions. The two-hour sessions were developed in partnership with South East London Vision (SELVIS) and Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL). The project’s aim is to provide […] Collapse
Fencers welcome equipment gift
18 HRS AGO - Imperium Investments has donated equipment to Brixton Fencing Club for senior fencers including Expand
18 HRS AGO - Imperium Investments has donated equipment to Brixton Fencing Club for senior fencers including one electric wireless set for recording hits while fencing and four ordinary spool systems. The donation is part of Imperium Investments’ sustained initiative to assist the club to allow children from across Lambeth to experience fencing through lessons and access to the […] Collapse
In photos: Brixton Buzz thumping great pop party at the Effra Social, Fri 22nd Mar 2019
21 HRS AGO - Friday night is Brixton Buzz party night at the Effra Social, and we were back laying down the Expand
21 HRS AGO - Friday night is Brixton Buzz party night at the Effra Social, and we were back laying down the dancefloor-fillers at our weekly slot in this lively boozer in SW2. Here’s […]
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Brixton Immortals celebrate, honour the past and look to the future
1 DAY AGO - Brixton’s most successful sports club, The Brixton Immortals celebrated their triumphant Expand
1 DAY AGO - Brixton’s most successful sports club, The Brixton Immortals celebrated their triumphant season last year in the Anglo Caribbean Dominoes League (ACDL) and looked forward to new high points this year at an awards ceremony and dinner at the club’s Coldharbour Road headquarters recently. Not only home to Brixton’s most successful sporting venture, the club is […] Collapse
Save Lambeth Children’s Centres protest in Windrush Square, Brixton, Sun 24th Mar, 10.30am
1 DAY AGO - Campaigners will be staging a protest in Windrush Square this Sunday, 24th March, in protest at Expand
1 DAY AGO - Campaigners will be staging a protest in Windrush Square this Sunday, 24th March, in protest at Lambeth’s plans to close five children’s centres in the borough. The protest will take […]
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In photos: Children’s centre campaigners protest outside Lambeth Town Hall, Weds 23rd Jan 2019
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Brixton’s Windrush Square Veg Invasion
2 DAYS AGO - Brixton is braced for a vegetable invasion of Windrush Square and the market on 6 April. A family Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Brixton is braced for a vegetable invasion of Windrush Square and the market on 6 April. A family fun day running from 11am to 4pm will encourage kids to “Eat Them To Defeat Them”. It’s part of the ITV-backed Veg Power campaign that uses a new approach to promote vegetables. Incredible Edible Lambeth is working […] Collapse
Welcome back! Brixton’s Grosvenor Arms public house reopens tonight, Fri 22nd March 2019
2 DAYS AGO - The Grosvenor Arms pub, located on the border of Brixton and Stockwell, will be reopening tonight Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The Grosvenor Arms pub, located on the border of Brixton and Stockwell, will be reopening tonight – Friday 22nd March – with the revamped bar promising oodles of tasty keg, […]
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In photos: Brixton Buzz party night at the Effra Social, Brixton, Friday 15th March 2019
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Supporting the community is more than worthwhile say students
3 DAYS AGO - Kalysha Stapleton, 19, took part in a 12-week Prince’s Trust programme delivered by Lambeth Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Kalysha Stapleton, 19, took part in a 12-week Prince’s Trust programme delivered by Lambeth College. Her team chose to renovate the playground areas of the Effra Early Years Centre as their community project. These are extracts from her blog, which was part of the project We are the Prince’s Trust Lambeth College TEAM! (Brixton). We […] Collapse
Care and kindness for the Brixton community
3 DAYS AGO - Jessica Dyer spends a Friday night with Brixton’s Street Pastors If you are out on a Friday Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Jessica Dyer spends a Friday night with Brixton’s Street Pastors If you are out on a Friday night in Brixton you may well encounter the Street Pastors, a church-based group, who have been patrolling in the area for the last 15 years providing advice, kind words, help and comfort to those out on the town. The […] Collapse
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#itmademefeel – young people chalk messages about sexual harassment around Brixton
1 HR AGO - Powerful messages about child sex exploitation have been appearing on Brixton pavements as part of Expand
1 HR AGO - Powerful messages about child sex exploitation have been appearing on Brixton pavements as part of the #itmademefeel sexual harassment campaign, promoted by Lambeth Youth Council and the Children’s Society. The […]
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Be a green volunteer
19 HRS AGO - Volunteers are already at work in Brixton’s Slade Gardens after it became one of a handful of Expand
19 HRS AGO - Volunteers are already at work in Brixton’s Slade Gardens after it became one of a handful of local city greening projects to get significant funding from the London mayor’s Greener City Fund. The Slade Gardens rejuvenation project will develop the popular adventure playground site at Slade, off off Robsart Road and just behind the Brixton Road, […] Collapse
Brixton Windmill announces activity programme for the year
21 HRS AGO - Brixton Windmill’s programme for the year includes highlights like its Beer and Bread Festival, Expand
21 HRS AGO - Brixton Windmill’s programme for the year includes highlights like its Beer and Bread Festival, Art in the Park Harvest Festival and the fourth annual Windmill Lecture. The season opens on 13 and 14 April with an open weekend offering guided tours of the windmill. The popular heritage walks in the area around the windmill led […] Collapse
MUSIC HIGH FIVE: Mover and shaker Cal Jader’s musical memories
1 DAY AGO - …where we hi-five local musical movers and shakers. We ask five questions to get to know the Expand
1 DAY AGO - …where we hi-five local musical movers and shakers. We ask five questions to get to know the people who play regularly or contribute in other ways to Brixton’s live music scene. This month it’s the turn of Cal Jader What do you do and where do you do it? I run Movimientos, an organisation dedicated to […] Collapse
Credit without profit
1 DAY AGO - Steve Powdrill meets the provider of a financial service with a difference Years ago, if Expand
1 DAY AGO - Steve Powdrill meets the provider of a financial service with a difference Years ago, if someone mentioned “credit unions”, you might be forgiven for envisioning a man with a ledger, offering loans in a church hall. The goal of all credit unions is still to create a financial community whose members can pool savings […] Collapse
Local artist Martin Grover exhibits in West End
2 DAYS AGO - For the Records You still have time to catch local artist Martin Grover’s exhibition of paintings Expand
2 DAYS AGO - For the Records You still have time to catch local artist Martin Grover’s exhibition of paintings of the sleeves of vinyl records that take those old enough back to the 1960s and 70s and those great days of 45s, record shops and Tamla Motown. Each beautifully rendered piece celebrates an age of vinyl, clunky technology […] Collapse
Top tech award for Evelyn Grace Academy
2 DAYS AGO - Pupils and their computer science teacher from Brixton’s Ark Evelyn Grace Academy received Teen Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Pupils and their computer science teacher from Brixton’s Ark Evelyn Grace Academy received Teen Tech’s “best innovative product” and “teacher of the year” awards at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Pupils Bruno Rocha Cunha E Silva, Charles Clayton and Leynner Caicedo Arrieche (known as The Alpha Apps) received their awards in the music, media and […] Collapse
Brixton 15 years ago: Skate Park, a lost Banksy, market scenes, helicopter and the Fridge Bar, March 2004
3 DAYS AGO - Another delve through our photographic archives has unearthed 35 images from 15 years ago in March Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Another delve through our photographic archives has unearthed 35 images from 15 years ago in March 2004, a month that started with Peter Andre topping the singles chart and Katie […]
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Squire wins consent to build new restaurant and workspace
3 DAYS AGO - Squire & Partners, owner of Brixton’s Department Store building, has been granted planning Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Squire & Partners, owner of Brixton’s Department Store building, has been granted planning consent to create a four-storey building behind its existing premises, fronting Bellefields Road and the pedestrianised Stockwell Avenue. The development will include 13,000 square feet of workspace and 4,500 square feet of retail. The new red brick building will replace derelict 1970s […] Collapse
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It’s an Oxford annihilation, as Dulwich Hamlet endure a 1-4 awayday drubbing, Sat 23rd March 2019
14 HRS AGO - Dulwich Hamlet sashayed even closer to the relegation zone with a lamentable away performance at Expand
14 HRS AGO - Dulwich Hamlet sashayed even closer to the relegation zone with a lamentable away performance at Oxford City that saw the visitors four goals down by halftime. Buzz photographer was there […]
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Brexit petition to remain in Europe gathers millions of votes, with Lambeth residents signing in their thousands
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20 HRS AGO - Yesterday saw one of the biggest marches in UK history as a reported one million people took to the streets to demand a second EU referendum, while an online petition […]
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Funding will help Myatt’s Fields Park secure its future
23 HRS AGO - The 14-acre, Grade II listed Myatt’s Fields Park has received £77,500 from the Heritage Lottery Expand
23 HRS AGO - The 14-acre, Grade II listed Myatt’s Fields Park has received £77,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and £20,000 from Lambeth council to secure its future. The money will help the charity that runs the park to develop long-term income. After a £3 million renovation by HLF and the council in 2009, local people developed […] Collapse
BRIXTON LEGAL: Help for people who have dementia and their carers
1 DAY AGO - Pam Douglas is a solicitor with local firm Wainwright and Cummins. Each month, her column takes a Expand
1 DAY AGO - Pam Douglas is a solicitor with local firm Wainwright and Cummins. Each month, her column takes a common legal issue and explains it for readers Dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease) has been called the “21st century’s silent epidemic”. It typically affects people aged over 65 and, as we live longer, more and more people experience symptoms. […] Collapse
New shows announced at Electric Brixton, including KRS-One and Los Auténticos Decadentes
1 DAY AGO - The Electric Brixton has announced some new shows coming up this year, including Buzz fave KRS-One Expand
1 DAY AGO - The Electric Brixton has announced some new shows coming up this year, including Buzz fave KRS-One and Argentinian band Los Auténticos Decadentes, who mix ska with Latin American rhythms. Rave of […]
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BCA’s new head Arike Oke says archives are a world to explore not just a record of the past
2 DAYS AGO - Arike Oke, head of the Black Cultural Archives on Brixton’s Windrush Square talks to Leslie Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Arike Oke, head of the Black Cultural Archives on Brixton’s Windrush Square talks to Leslie Manasseh about her new job The Black Cultural Archives is a unique, national institution that collects, preserves and celebrates the lives and history of Black people in Britain. Arike Oke is its new managing director. She had been in post […] Collapse
Brixton tonight! Huge pop songs and dancefloor fillers at the Brixton Buzz Effra Social free party, Fri 22nd March 2019
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2 DAYS AGO - Our free Friday night residency at the Effra Social has come around again, and we’ll be hosting another evening of beer-spilling, arms-in-the-air, genre-thrashing, decades-mashing party anthems. Come along and join […]
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Appeal for summer food and play funds
3 DAYS AGO - Loughborough Community Centre is appealing for funds for its Summer of Play activities based in Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Loughborough Community Centre is appealing for funds for its Summer of Play activities based in Max Roach Park. The programme of activities for children from 0 to 13 provides free play with lunch for all children so they can have a memorable summer. Loughborough Community Centre Trustee Mala Naicker said: “We fed 800 children over the […] Collapse
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