The Council is delighted to award its first Honorary Aldermen and Alderwomen of Lewisham. This prestigious honour was bestowed upon Dr Mee Ling Ng OBE, Jim Mallory, Obajimi Adefiranye, and Stella Jeffrey, for their years of dedication to the borough of Lewisham.

Congratulations to former Cllrs and now Honorary Alders of LBL - Dr Mee Ling Ng, Jim Mallory, Obajimi (Jimi) Adefiranye & Stella Jeffrey!

Mee Ling is a governance powerhouse and like an auntie to me. Jimi took part in the Battle of Lewisham ✊🏼
We stand on all your shoulders.

Congratulations Edison Huynh! 👏 I know you will achieve a lot in your new role.

When poverty pushed Aline to the brink of survival, business training funded by Christian Aid helped her push back harder.

Just under a month until our annual speakers #event at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church with Rev Dr Inderjit Bhogal as our guest speaker! Save the date and we look forward to seeing you! Camden New Journal Camden Council

Would you like to volunteer at Sydenham library ? they would love your help. Please help spread the word.

WATCH: Chaos & Decline. Exclusive to Conflix.

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Don't let it happen: iwillvote.org.uk

We need your help to win a Tesco Community Grant for St Mary's Therapeutic Garden! Please help us by voting for St Mary's Church at your local Tesco store. #Lewisham

Take nothing for granted. Vote for Sadiq on Thursday 2 May.

Since April 6, Daily Mail *reporter* #DanHodges has tweeted or RT'd/QT'd 153 times.

66 of those tweets are about #AngelaRayner .

#MarkMenzies 3 tweets
#WillyWragg 2 tweets
#MichelleDonelan 0 tweets

If that's not obsession & client journalism, I don't know what is.

.Lewisham Council our #Spring 2024 #grants round is open! Please share on your networks so we can reach organisations/charities whose work directly address #destitution among #Refugees or #asylum seekers. The deadline is Mon 29 April

lcrf.org.uk/grants

Victoria Derbyshire to replace Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC?

RT if you agree.

#bbclaurak

Hilly Fields GP app system. Queue from 7.30am as phones permanently engaged - can’t even get on to a phone queue. About 40 people out on pavement. Never seen it so bad. Utter disgrace. CROFTON PARK LIFE Jane Martin 💙 Robert Firth Lewisham Lowdown

'Refugees could add £1.2 billion in five years to UK economy' - Church Times

churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/…

Petition: Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Help4Refugees makes a simple request of our followers today. Ask one friend, have you heard of London Churches Refugee Fund? Do you know what they do? #TellAFriend #charity #Refugee #donate #DonateNow

Here you will see before and after photos of the Community Garden founded on Comet Street, SE8 in 2020. The first photo was taken in 2019 and shows the area with mass fly tipping. The other images show how community gardens and planters can go a long way to reducing fly tipping.

Laura Kuenssberg Paddy O'Connell We've prominent anti-LTNers in Lewisham repeatedly claiming (without evidence) that the LTN 'made the A205 South Circular worse'
Verifiable DfT & air quality data shows traffic is now 9.7% *less* post-LTN (2019), NOx pollution at its *lowest* ever level, & speeds slightly higher.