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Our project Loughborough Farm hosted the Wildmind Yard Festival in June as part of the London Festival of Architecture – a day of free workshops on community gardening and sustainable living, as well as family-friendly hands-on activities and an embroidery table by Brixton-based Stitch School.

We were so chuffed that our MP Helen Hayes came and handed out leaflets and talked to travellers and passersby at Loughborough Junction station about our campaign to get a lift installed to help everyone, including parents with buggies, wheelchair users, cyclists, those with heavy bags or dodgy knees and the elderly navigate those cruel steep and gloomy steps. There is still time to sign the petition!

Find out more about how one of our projects, The Platform Cafe, was able to offer more support to local people this winter as part of their Cost of Living Programme, boosted by funding from The National Lottery and Lambeth Council.

Developer London Green is proposing to build 320 poky bedsits in a 14-storey block on Hinton Road, out of keeping with surrounding 2 and 3 storey houses. Say no to this rabbit hutch development. Join our fight to get this proposal turned down. We need affordable family homes not expensive bedsits. Make a comment or objection on Lambeth’s planning website.

Maude and Hazel’s craft workshops at Carnegie Library Hub are going from strength to strength – LJAG have supported and funded these free walk-in workshops for many years. Great for all ages and all levels.

Thriving Fiveways is a new health & wellbeing initiative coordinated by LJAG, Ecosystem Coldharbour and CHIPS. Our idea is to empower people to run events and activities with a health & wellbeing theme in the Loughborough Junction/Angell Town area. See the flyer for more details.

You are all welcome at The Platform Cafe for the next meeting of LJ Neighbourhood Forum. There will be light refreshments.

The LJAG Away Day brought together staff, volunteers and representatives from our projects: Grove Adventure Playground, The Platform Cafe, Loughborough Farm and our Craft Workshops. We discussed the opportunities and challenges that we face in Loughborough Junction, and how we can best serve all members of our local community.

The Platform Cafe are delighted to have received National Lottery funding to support people affected by the cost of living crisis this winter. They have a full programme of events plus their year-round free meals programme has been given a winter boost so that they can offer more free meals and hot drinks to those who need it.

Our campaign to get a lift installed at Loughborough Junction continues. We will be leafletting at the station on Tuesday 6 February from 4.30pm to 7pm. Please come along and help, even half an hour helps.