Great news! Stockwell Festival has won the public vote in local Tesco stores in November / December and won £4,000 to support this year’s festival!
This will really make a difference to our fundraising efforts for the festival.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR US!
If you would like to get involved with planning this year’s festival please email Steve on steve@stockwell.org.uk.
Background information on the Bags for Help Scheme:
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores – being awarded to local community projects.
Bags of Help offers community groups and projects across the UK a share of revenue generated from carrier bag sales in Tesco store. For more information on Bags for Help see www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp
We have just launched a new website for the range of free services that we offer to the Portuguese speaking community in Lambeth.
There are pages for
bilingual advice on welfare and housing
how to volunteer with us
our work with older, isolated people and the wider community
how we can help you get into employment
updated current vacancies with local employers
If you use these services keep checking the site over the next few months, because we will be adding a series of new ‘How to…’ videos – plus our new Appointment Booking page will be going live, which means this will be the easiest way to make an appointment.
The services and website are funded by the BIG Lottery Reaching Communities fund. Huge thanks also to Manuel Santos for support with the design and set up of the site.
Great news – the date for this year’s Stockwell Festival has now been confirmed!
Stockwell Festival 2018 will be on Saturday 7th July from 12 – 6pm in Larkhall Park.
Thanks to everyone who voted for us in local Tesco stores, winning us the top grant. This has really helped to make the festival happen this year.
We’re now working with our partners, Friends of Larkhall Park, LEAP, Art4Space, and the new Lambeth Portuguese Community Partnership to create one of the best programmes ever.
Please SPREAD THE WORD – and watch this space for further updates.
Our Hug group of older Portuguese speakers had a great time planting veggies today at Myatt’s Fields Park – thank you Tori and Manuel for your help and support (and for the free soup and coffee, Tori!) If you or someone you know would like to join the group please contact Maria – maria@stockwell.org.uk.
Thanks to Penny Noy, a local neighbour who helps us with our garden, for setting up this fabulous website for our mosaics, highlighting the links to John Tradescant – check it out! https://treeoflifemosaicmural.wordpress.com/ … Continue reading →
Make a note in your diary – the next Stockwell Forum is on Tuesday 26th June, 7 – 8.30pm at the Stockwell Community Centre on Studley Road (behind the Tube station).
The full agenda is still to be confirmed, but it will include updates on the Stockwell Festival, local planning applications, and a short presentation on the London Electric Vehicle project.
Missed Stockwell Forum last night? Here are the local planning updates, thanks to local resident Ian Beever: Planning Updates June 2018 … Continue reading →
All of us in Stockwell Partnership are getting VERY excited about the Stockwell Festival this Saturday in Larkhall Park! There’s so many fantastic things going on, from Live Music and dance workshops, to storytelling, great food, and sports including our own World Cup event. We’ll be there in the Wellbeing Hub from 12 – 6pm, come and meet us! Check out the full programme below.
As usual, Brixton Buzz have run a fabulous article on this year’s Stockwell Festival, with a selection of the best photos. Check it out here
Our feedback from everyone was great this year, with the only real issue being a clash with… England vs. Sweden!
Months ago we had realised that there was going to be a World Cup match on at this time but thought we would risk it. There was a sudden flurry of phones and tablets being brandished by stallholders at kickoff, but at least England won (sorry, any Swedes amongst you!)
LEAP (Lambeth Early Action Partnership) had a particularly good turnout with their activities for younger children and parents, and the Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership’s ‘Community Connectors’ could be seen out and about helping people to make the most of the Festival.
Roll on 2019! If you would like to be involved in helping to organise next year’s festival do get in touch (steve@stockwell.org.uk).
Need funding for your local wellbeing project? Want to find out about our Local Care Network? Interested in local developments? Or just want to let everyone know about your fantastic event or project?
Then come to the next public Stockwell Forum on Wednesday 10th October, 7-8.30 at Stockwell Community Centre!
A reminder that the Stockwell Forum is Weds 10 October, from 7-8.30pm at Stockwell Community Centre.
Come along to share news about your own projects and events, and to hear about local developments and how we can improve local health and wellbeing (with help from the Lambeth Wellbeing Fund!)
We run the Stockwell Forum as part of the Lambeth Forum Network, a partnership of 12 neighbourhood-based forums that support residents, community groups and businesses to network with each other and engage with the Council and other service providers.
Check out the latest Annual Report of our network to get a feel for its range of activities and events, and its deep reach into Lambeth’s communities:
We’re currently supporting one of our local GPs to reach out at an earlier stage to Portuguese speakers who might be at risk of diabetes and other illnesses. We’ll be supporting some pilot projects soon – e.g. a breakfast homework club for school children in a local cafe, where we also work to support their parents. Check out the clip below, which went out on Portuguese lunchtime news and was filmed in our offices (and which feature Gustavo in a non-speaking part!):
The Stockwell Forum in conjunction with the Stockwell GP cluster and Patient Participation Groups, Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group and the Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership would like to invite you to a Special Stockwell Health and Wellbeing Forum on Wednesday 27th February between 7-8.30pm.
The event will be held at Springfield Medical Centre and will be followed by some food, networking and the opportunity to meet staff from our local GP surgeries.
The forum will be a great opportunity to meet and hear from people in Stockwell who have an interest in developing a healthy community and are keen to share, learn and collaborate with others. There will be a chance to hear about local health and wellbeing initiatives. The Stockwell GP Cluster (Beckett House, Binfield Road Surgery, Grantham Practice, Springfield Medical Centre and Stockwell Group Practice) and their Patient Participation Group Networks will help us to explore how we can be more active and work together to create a healthy community.
If you would like to take an active part in any aspect of the
forum, including sharing any health and wellbeing projects you are involved in,
please let us know.
The great enthusiasm and creativity of residents and groups to
improve wellbeing in Stockwell were evident last night at the Stockwell Forum.
Nearly 50 people attended the event with its special focus on Health and Wellbeing in our neighbourhood. Youth, Community, Arts, Schools and Education, Employment, and local residents were all represented – as well as Lambeth’s NHS Clinical Commissioning Group and five local GP practices that supported the event.
After an introduction on the health sector’s increasing focus on neighbourhood working and preventative work with communities by the Chair, Steve Griffin from Stockwell Partnership, the ice was properly broken by a fun drawing exercise run by local community arts group, Arts4Space. Attendees had to draw the person sitting next to them without looking at the paper. The facilitator showed how the process connected to the famous ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.
There followed 12 short talks by local organisations supporting wellbeing, including Hyde Housing, Active Together, Respeito, Dr Vik Sharma (Grantham GP surgery / Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership / Food Coop), Enterprise LDN, Big Kid Foundation, Oval Learning Cluster, TSIP, Healthwatch Lambeth, Linda Mills (Complementary Health), Lambeth PPG, and Beckett House GP surgery.
Finally the forum discussed on their tables how we can be
more active and work together to create a healthy community in Stockwell. A
huge number of ideas were generated. People commented on how great it was to
have such a diverse group making connections; how people were not alone in
wanting to make a difference to health and wellbeing; and above all how there
was a need for more engagement, more online resources and more opportunities to
connect in person.
Many thanks to the event’s partners, including Lambeth NHS CCG, the Stockwell GP cluster, Lambeth PPG, the Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership, Art4Space and Lambeth council. For more information, or to receive the summary of ideas that came out from the tables, contact Steve Griffin at Stockwell Partnership (steve@stockwell.org.uk).
Next steps? We will be emailing everyone to propose a follow-up meeting in the next month, where we can go into more detail on some of the fantastic ideas that came up in the forum.
Are you a Stockwell resident? Want to become one of our 200+ members? Registering is simple, just complete the following form and either email it to us, or print it out and drop it in to 157 South Lambeth Road: … Continue reading →
Take a look at this great video of the Connecting Stockwell project by local community arts group, Art4Space. 300 people involved so far – wow! – and it’s not too late to take part if you want to! … Continue reading →
The important thing now is how we build on the momentum and bring
together some of the opportunities that were formulating on the night.
If you and / or a colleague are interested in following up with us and becoming part of a smaller group of committed individuals who wish to explore specific opportunities to work together to support the health and wellbeing of our community in Stockwell, please join us on Tuesday 30 April between 3-5pm at Art4Space, 31 Jeffreys Rd, London SW4 6QU. If you cannot make this specific date but are still interested in being involved, please let Steve (steve@stockwell.org.uk) know.
