A private school in Sidcup is set to start a new scheme to help children of key workers by covering school fees. Merton Court Preparatory School is offering the children of NHS key workers the chance to apply for a full fees bursary at the school. Applications are now open to frontline NHS key workers’ children who will be eight years old by August 31, 2021.
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Their Windrush Compensation Scheme has become a scandal in itself, criticised from all corners for its slow speed, complex documentation process and the high burden of proof it places on often elderly victims. Two years since it opened, less than a quarter of those who have applied for compensation have received any, and less than one per cent of the £500million set aside for victims has been paid out
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Changes in our lifestyle and situations that seem to be beyond our control all contribute towards feeling stressed. The same is true for our pets – and particularly cats – who can be highly sensitive to changes in their lives
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Some of London’s biggest names in chart music performed their greatest hits to give a boost to a training scheme for young people.
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A premier league football club are donating £1,000 to create cooking classes for homeless people. Crystal Palace F.C. and it’s charitable arm, the Palace for Life Foundation, are working with leading London charity Evolve Housing + Support to launch a 12-week cooking course for homeless people in Croydon.
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A Lewisham primary school is facing closure because of low student numbers and money problems. Public consultation began on Monday, April 19 on the plan to close St Mary Magdalen’s School in Brockley.
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Locals have praised the hero who entered a burning pub and rescued his unconscious neighbour, the pub’s barman, Asa Holmes. Michael Goldberg who lives off Dartmouth Road and close to the The Bird in Hand pub, with his wife Sharon Vardi, described Joe O’Rourke, a gravedigger who works at Camberwell New Cemetery, as a “true hero”.
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An app which mobilised volunteers to shop for vulnerable people in Lambeth during the pandemic is among the winners in London’s top responsible business gongs. Described as an ‘Uber for volunteers’, onHand, which matches volunteers with charities in need of help, won the Lord Mayor’s Award for Innovation During COVID-19 at the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards.
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A family has given more than £10,000 in thank you gifts to hospital staff after they saved the lives of two of them at Christmas. Georgie Theobald, from Denmark Hill, Camberwell, has put a smile on thousands of faces at King’s College Hospital because staff helped save the life of her grandmother and her son.
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Lewisham and Greenwich Hospital choir to perform with music superstars at this year’s BRIT Awards. The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir will perform with singers P!nk and Rag’n’Bone Man at the awards show on Tuesday, May 11.
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The 1981 Brixton riots had a huge impact on Britain – changing views on identity, racism and culture. But why did they happen, and what is their legacy?
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An exhibition celebrating the work of one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century avant-garde movement is to open at the Tate Modern in July.
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Comedians Suzi Ruffell, Sophie Duker, Fern Brady and Olga Koch are coming together to perform a fundraising gig on May 17 with Reclaim These Streets and Rosa UK.
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An exhibition of paintings and drawings by renowned street artist Miss Van has opened at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Kensington.
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Independent Cinemas, theatres, museums and music charities across South London have received almost £20million from the Government to help keep businesses alive as lockdown restrictions ease.
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Riot police launched raids on squats across the capital on the eve of the Royal Wedding. Vanloads of cops swooped on at least three squats in Camberwell yesterday morning ahead of the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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The 1970s were seemingly more innocent days, when the most highly-publicised violence happened in the relatively confined space of the football terraces. The police were above reproach and the children of the Windrush generation were only just starting to discover they were young, gifted and black. Here is the story of youth worker, TIM WAKELEY and his three years helping create the Lewisham Boys’ Club – and one of its most gifted graduates, Frank Wallen.
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Dave “Butcher” Bond was born Frank Wallen on June 27, 1954. Even before his life would take him to international fame in the wresting ring, Dave was a successful sportsman – coaching rugby, football, cricket or even judo, and mastered every level.
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A former headteacher who led Millwall’s community scheme has died. Peter Walsh was headteacher of Forest Hill School (FHS) and a long-Serving trustee and chairman of Millwall Community Trust.
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