Charity to take part in Dulwich Festival with artists and dancers
Bell House, a charity for wider learning, is taking part in the Dulwich Festival this May with a Sculpture Park in the gardens with 11 artists and three dancers exhibiting.
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Charity supporting pandemic-hit families in Southwark through Ramadan
A small volunteer-led charity is offering free meals through every day of Ramadan to support young people who have suffered throughout the Covid pandemic. The Nations Africa Centre (NAC) based in Southwark, is once again running The Big Dinner project from April 12th to May 12th 2021.
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Rugby players raising £30,000 for cancer charity in 80 mile non-stop walk starting in Lambeth
Rugby players are planning to make a gruelling 80 mile trek from South London to Portsmouth to raise money for cancer – in 32 hours. On the morning of May 29, 63 brave walkers will set off from Guy’s Hospital Cancer Care Centre and are hoping to arrive at Portsmouth Rugby Club by the following evening.
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Historic children’s theatre prepares to reopen after £8.5 million makeover
After more than two years closed, a well-loved children’s theatre is preparing to reopen this summer following an £8.5 million makeover. The Polka Theatre in Wimbledon closed its doors for refurbishment in February 2019.
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Six-year-old boy who raised more than £1.5 million for a children’s hospital raises another £76K
A six-year-old who raised more than £1.5m last year for Evelina London Children’s Hospital, has raised another £76,000 by taking part in the Captain Tom 100 challenge. Tony Hudgell set out to walk 100 steps on his prosthetic legs without the aid of his crutches – he smashed his target and walked more than 500 steps.
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Discovering a treasure in The Sultan, Wimbledon
The Sultan is fairly modest to look at it – a 1950s red-bricked building that suggests a fairly ordinary, typical suburban pub. It is located in between rows of terraced houses.
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Don’t fancy al fresco libations? Ready-made cocktails delivered to your door
World Cocktail Day is on 13th May 2021. For those who don’t fancy al fresco libations, here are some companies that have done all the hard work for you and will deliver ready-made cocktails to your door.
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Milton served his community well
A memorial service for a tennis coach who created one of the biggest community clubs in the country has taken place.
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All hail wonderful veteran Harry
Second World War veteran and Millwall fan Harry Bailey, from Lewisham, who has died aged 99, was a huge part of the Taxi Charity family which made regular trips to the battlefields and cemeteries of the Second World War.
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Let’s go fly a kite – and put a camera on it, too…
The Chinese are supposed to have invented kites. But a Russian aviator turned them into crucial implements of reconnaissance during the First World War – and created a camera which could take pictures from them. Captain Sergei Ulyanin, who died in 1921, is one of the more important and unusual people buried in Brockley Cemetery. Here MIKE GUILFOYLE tells his story.
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A Cub pack has raised almost £200 to help families in Japan whose lives have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.
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Portraits of NHS heroes to feature in new art exhibition
“Will ‘Amanda’ become the face of recent history as new exhibition puts NHS Heroes at the fore, writes Christopher Walker.
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Lockdown photos by homeless people shown in exhibition
An exhibition of photographs taken by homeless people during lockdown has opened in the churchyard at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Dropped Tea Theatre opens up submissions for upcoming performances
A new female-led theatre company has announced an open call for submissions from creatives with lived experience growing up in Peckham and Camberwell.
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New film season at the BFI celebrates black women and their musical artistry
The BFI Southbank is celebrating black women and their musical artistry in their new film season, and features films with performances from Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston and Beyoncé.
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Royal Festival Hall commission Bromley poet to write and perform poem to mark 70th anniversary
Bromley based poet Theresa Lola has been commissioned to write and perform a poem to mark the 70th anniversary of the Royal Festival Hall.
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Artists make use of Fulham Town Hall to create new exhibition
It’s easy to walk past Fulham Town Hall and think nothing of it – after all, the Grade II listed building has stood empty for more than a decade.
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A taste of real India and it’s not pleasant
A glimpse into the real India: Christopher Walker reviews Behind the Beautiful Forevers, now streaming.
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Your latest 52-page South London Press – out tomorrow!
Your latest 52-page South London Press – out tomorrow! Thousands of tenants who have been paying hundreds of pounds over the odds for their water bills are celebrating after hearing. 10 pages of South London sport, including reports and reaction as Charlton stayed in the League One play-off hunt. All that plus much more…
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