Youngsters visit mental health hub they co-designed and named
Young leaders from Coin Street, a charity which provides community spaces, toured The Nest drop-in centre in Rye Lane to see how their ideas had come to life.
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Hammersmith and Fulham council leader: Vaccine is a way out – but please adhere to rules in meantime
Infection rates in Hammersmith and Fulham have doubled in a week and have far exceeded numbers seen during the November national lockdown.
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South-west London coronavirus cases increase
As of yesterday, there had been 8,297 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Wandsworth since March.
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Ride hailing service donates packs of toys to brighten up Christmas for needy families
Little Village, a charity that provides clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children, has received a donation of packs of toys worth £250 from soon-to-launch Wandsworth-based ride hailing service UVA UK.
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Family brightening up Christmas – and raising money for charity
Gunaltay Mustafa, 40, of Albany Road, Southwark, has for several years gone overboard with his outdoor Christmas decorations to raise money for the Anthony Nolan charity.
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Building firms donate books to schools
Last week, BPSDC, Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine, lead contractors for Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the Battersea power station redevelopment, gave more than 560 children’s books, educational toys and gift vouchers to three local primaries in Battersea as part of the annual ‘Give a Book for Christmas’ appeal.
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Head teachers call for help in testing children for coronavirus
The Government has insisted that teachers will not be tasked with testing 5.5 million children and that the roll-out would be led by agency workers and volunteers.
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Dulwich College pupils raise £2,500 for disability charity Sense
After voting to fundraise for the charity, they took on a range of challenges which also included a 32km swim, and a 143km run across 12 hours.
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100 groups unite to call on Government to act over air quality
The Brixton based clean air group, Mums for Lungs, has written to the environmental secretary, George Eustice, to take immediate action to combat London’s air pollution.
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Estate residents make their mark with community sculpture
Artist and stone mason Austin Emery helped supervise the piece in Tanner Street Park, with more than 100 stone carvings created by project participants during open and free stone carving workshops held on the nearby Whites Grounds Estate.
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Christmas cheer for cheese lovers
Make a cheese lovers’ Christmas Day with a Cheddar hamper from Somerset producer, Wyke Farms.
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Don’t worry, be app-y at Wheatsheaf
As London’s famous market looked bursting at the seams, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we are not in the middle of a pandemic.
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Cricket history to relative obscurity
Ned Willsher changed the way cricket was played when his determination to bowl over-arm eventually prevailed.
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Was he blind or was it murder?
Former soldier Arthur Meader was adjudged not fit to serve after his sight began to deteriorate amid the First World War. He was helped by a blind charity and married – but his wife led a double life in the West End.
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South London Film Festival
A new film festival is celebrating South London’s community of creatives and film-makers. The South London Film Festival is set to open next Sunday at 7pm and will showcase some of the best short films made this year.
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Music Academy offers online Christmas concerts
World Heart Beat Music Academy welcomes you to a truly magical online Christmas Concert consisting of two special, live-streamed performances filmed from our academy direct into your living room.
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Plumber releases single to help the homeless
A chance encounter has led to mild mannered Pimlico plumber Greg McGrath releasing a charity version of the yuletide classic ‘White Christmas’ to raise money for a homeless charity.
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Christmas single released by siblings to raise money for charity
A singer has released a charity single with her brother to raise money for those going without food and family this Christmas.
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Lake renamed to celebrate youth rowing coach
Isobel Turner, a 27-year-old from Greenwich is a coach at London Youth Rowing, a charity which aims to develop young people through physical activity and open access to rowing at all levels.
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