Lewisham Local

Lewisham Local Bringing Lewisham together through giving and sharing. ✨ The Lewisham Local ‘Community Contributor Card is an initiative of Rushey Green Time Bank.

The scheme is designed to recognise the invaluable contribution volunteers and community activists make towards improving our communities. It covers whatever kind of help people do – whether it is traditional volunteering, time banking, befriending, and grassroots localism initiatives, anything where
neighbours do something for the benefit of each other and the wider community. Plus, it is about s

trengthening the local economy by encouraging more people to shop at Lewisham’s amazing independent shops and businesses. Traders throughout Lewisham are signing up to the scheme to offer favourable deals to cardholders, visibly demonstrating they are community contributors! It’s all about enabling local communities thrive. How it works: the scheme is free to join for both community organisations and traders! The card is totally free. We work with recognised community organisations in Lewisham, who wish to further acknowledge the efforts of their time givers. Traders are offering their favourable deals based purely on generous goodwill. Once they agree to join the scheme a window sticker is displayed in a prominent position, advertising they accept the card. Their offer is promoted on our Lewisham Local website and through our community networks.

Two places.One of the world’s greatest races. 🏃Could it be you? 🤔We’re looking for 2 runners to represent Lewisham Local...
03/08/2026

Two places.
One of the world’s greatest races. 🏃
Could it be you? 🤔

We’re looking for 2 runners to represent Lewisham Local at the 2027 TCS London Marathon, running through the city for a cause that genuinely changes lives right here in Lewisham. 💚

Email [email protected] to request an application form.

Applications close at the end of August. 📌





Good Food Lewisham’s Quarterly Network Meeting came to the newly restored Catford House and the conversation was all abo...
08/07/2026

Good Food Lewisham’s Quarterly Network Meeting came to the newly restored Catford House and the conversation was all about food co-ops. 🌿

Good Food Lewisham

A packed room, shared seeds, and people genuinely excited about changing how Lewisham eats.

This is what a food network looks like. 💚

Shiri from Cooperation Town Cooperation Town broke down how food co-ops work; democratic, not-for-profit, and cutting household grocery costs by up to 40%.

Meanwhile, Ella from Lewisham Fruit Harvest spoke about their new initiative: harvesting and redistributing fruit from trees growing right across our borough.

That map? Every dot is a public fruit tree in London.

There’s more growing in this city than we realise. 🍎

The Lewisham Fruit Harvest connects tree owners, volunteer pickers, food banks, and schools, redirecting fruit that would otherwise go to waste.

Want to get involved as a picker, tree owner, or recipient of the Lewisham Fruit Harvest, or interested in starting a food co-op in Lewisham?

Drop an email to [email protected] 🌱

Our Windrush celebration didn’t fall on the day itself, but it landed exactly when it needed to. 💛On 1st July, our Time ...
03/07/2026

Our Windrush celebration didn’t fall on the day itself, but it landed exactly when it needed to. 💛

On 1st July, our Time Bank community gathered to honour Windrush Day.

Choir performances, poetry, an interactive exhibition, and a spread of food that spoke for itself: some catered, some brought in by neighbours to share.

That’s how these gatherings should feel.

We were joined by Africa Advocacy Foundation who offered free blood pressure checks throughout the day, and the whole thing ran on the shoulders of our brilliant Friday volunteers and a wonderful crew of young volunteers who showed up.

Windrush is a legacy of arrival, community, and holding each other up across generations.

That’s what 1st July looked like in real life. 💚

Want to be part of Time Bank? Head to our bio. ☝️





June was a busy one in Lewisham. 🌞From festivals to networks, training to fundraising, here’s a look back at a month of ...
01/07/2026

June was a busy one in Lewisham. 🌞

From festivals to networks, training to fundraising, here’s a look back at a month of connecting people, groups and businesses across the borough, and stepping in where something needs doing.

This month we:
🎪 Joined Bellingham Festival, Catford Festival and Downham Celebrates
🏳️‍🌈 Hosted our first LGBTQ+ stakeholder meeting
🙌 Celebrated our volunteers for Volunteers’ Week and ran Recruit & Retain training
🤝 Launched the Active Lewisham sports forum and met with the Good Food network
🥗 Co-hosted a Right to Food session at Parkside
💛 Saw Trinity School raise £336.56 for the Bank of Things
🍎 Welcomed a placement student to our Good Food team
❄️ Helped fund Cool Spaces offering respite from the heat

Behind every project is a network of people, partners and volunteers making Lewisham better.

Thank you for being part of it. 🙏

🔗 Find the GLA Cool Spaces Map via the link in our bio to find respite near you this summer.

Swipe through to see June at Lewisham Local 👉





We're hiring a Volunteering Coordinator 👋Join the team helping Lewisham give back.You'll connect local businesses, resid...
30/06/2026

We're hiring a Volunteering Coordinator 👋

Join the team helping Lewisham give back.

You'll connect local businesses, residents and community groups through volunteering and skills-sharing, building our corporate volunteering programme and helping people find opportunities that matter to them.

⏳ Part-time, 21 hrs/week · Fixed term to July 2027
💷 £17,020/yr (£28,366 FTE) + 6% pension
📍 Lewisham, SE10 8FY

Full details and how to apply are at the link in our bio. 🔗

Deadline: Monday 20 July, 9am.

Know someone who'd be brilliant at this? Tag them 👇





Take part in our from Sunday 28th June across . There will be over 100 pebbles hidden. If you find one let us know on...
27/06/2026

Take part in our from Sunday 28th June across . There will be over 100 pebbles hidden. If you find one let us know on Instagram or Facebook .This is the final part of our Digging the Dirt project about so each pebble has a message or picture related to the world beneath your feet.
Will you find a snail, flower or maybe a mushroom?
Post your finds linked to our social media and you could win a free session at our wonderful community site site to host your own event for a morning or afternoon.
We will be giving clues out over the next few days about the locations but wait until Sunday to start your hunt. Good luck

It's set to be a hot one, Lewisham. ☀️An Amber Heat-Health Alert is in place across London from Thursday until at least ...
19/06/2026

It's set to be a hot one, Lewisham. ☀️

An Amber Heat-Health Alert is in place across London from Thursday until at least Tuesday, and the warm weather looks likely to stay with us for much of next week.

Swipe through for UKHSA's simple guide to staying well in the heat. ➡️

Hot weather is lovely, but it can be genuinely hard on the body, especially for older people, very young children, and anyone managing a health condition.

A few simple things make a real difference:

🏠 Keep your home cool: Close curtains and blinds on windows in direct sun, and open up when the air feels cooler outside than in

😎 Stay out of the sun when it's strongest, 11am–3pm

💧 Drink plenty: Aim for 6 to 8 glasses of fluid a day (around 1,600ml for women, 2,000ml for men); water, squash and non-caffeinated tea all count

❤️ Check in on neighbours, friends or family who might find the heat harder to manage

Also, staying hydrated needn't mean buying bottled water.

With Refill Lewisham, you can top up your bottle for free at refill stations across the borough; just look for the sticker in the window (swipe to the last slide to see exactly what it looks like) or find your nearest station using the Refill link in our bio. 🔗 🚰

Every park in Lewisham has a water point too.

Need somewhere cool to pause while you're out?

The GLA Map of Cool Spaces shows free, cool places to rest right across London; also linked in our bio. 🔗

Let's look out for one another this week. 💙





Today is World Sickle Cell Day. 🩸In a borough like ours, that matters. 🧡Sickle cell is the UK’s most common inherited bl...
19/06/2026

Today is World Sickle Cell Day. 🩸
In a borough like ours, that matters. 🧡

Sickle cell is the UK’s most common inherited blood condition, and it disproportionately affects African and Caribbean heritage communities; communities that are central to Lewisham’s story.

For families living with it, sickle cell can mean pain crises, hospital visits, and a daily resilience that often goes unseen.

That’s where our community can do more. 📌

When churches, youth clubs, food projects, and faith groups talk about sickle cell; when our networks share accurate information, signpost services, and ask how they can better support people living with the condition, awareness becomes action.

So today, two asks from us:
🔹If you run a community group, faith space, or local service; think about how you could better support people living with sickle cell...even a conversation helps.

🔹If you want to learn more, visit Sickle Cell Society or NHS London and look out for more info from our community partners.

Together, we look out for each other.
That’s Lewisham. 💚





Pride Month is here, and this year, we’ve got something to share. 🌈We’re launching a new LGBTQ+ infrastructure support p...
17/06/2026

Pride Month is here, and this year, we’ve got something to share. 🌈

We’re launching a new LGBTQ+ infrastructure support project at Lewisham Local: a piece of work shaped by months of conversations with local groups, built around what support is genuinely needed on the ground.
..because Pride is about more than a flag in June.

It’s about whether the people doing this work the rest of the year; the collectives, the spaces, the support networks; have what they need to keep going.

That’s where we want to add value: practical, inclusive, community led. 💚

📩 Full details in our June newsletter; link in bio.

🤝 Are you an LGBTQ+ org in Lewisham? We’d love to hear from you: [email protected]





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