This article is an offshoot of Lambeth community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources such as networks, events and community involvement (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces and biodiversity, cycle lanes, food initiatives, etc, from the other Lambeth community pages.
News and comment[edit | edit source]
Community resources[edit | edit source]
Library of things[edit | edit source]
Crystal Palace Library of Things, link checked 17:24, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Upper Norwood Library[edit | edit source]
Upper Norwood Joint Library is a community managed library in Upper Norwood, South London. It stands on Westow Hill, in Crystal Palace town centre, within the London Borough of Lambeth, but on the edge of the boundary with the London Borough of Croydon. It is funded largely by Lambeth Council, and in part by Croydon Council, with the building itself managed by a community-run independent charity, the Upper Norwood Library Trust. It is part of the Lambeth network of libraries, and thus accepts Lambeth library membership cards.
Onsite is one of the first Library of Things, a self-service borrowing initiative active across local communities which lends objects instead of books from a conventional library. These objects include anything from garden tools to sports gear, toys to electro-domestic equipment. The Upper Norwood Library Hub, the operations arm of the Upper Norwood Library Trust, manages the building itself, and runs various classes, workshops and initiatives within the space. The library also has space available for private hire through the Hub.
Coin Street Community Builders[edit | edit source]
Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a development trust and social enterprise which seeks to make London's South Bank a better place in which to live, to work, to visit and to study. Since 1984 CSCB has transformed a largely derelict 13-acre site into a thriving mixed-use neighbourhood.
Since its creation in 1984, CSCB redeveloped the Oxo Tower Wharf, Gabriel's Wharf, Bernie Spain Gardens and set up four housing co-operatives (Mulberry, Palm, Redwood and Iroko). The housing co-operatives are housed in new buildings commissioned by CSCB. Palm (also known as Broadwall) was designed by Lifschutz Davidson (now Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands) completed in 1994. Iroko was designed by architects Haworth Tompkins and was completed in 2001.
In 2007, CSCB occupied new offices at the Coin Street neighbourhood centre, also designed by Haworth Tompkins. As well as offices the building includes a day nursery and crèche, conference and meeting facilities.
CSCB also offers a variety of community programmes for people of all ages including youth clubs, sports and dance sessions and family and children's activities
CSCB opposed the Garden Bridge project which would have been partially built on their land.
Visions[edit | edit source]
- What if Lambeth, community project organised by Transition Town Brixton and part of the Bounce Forward 2030 project.
Food activism[edit | edit source]
- Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
- Crystal Palace Food Market
- Incredible Edible Lambeth
- Pop Farm, Brixton
Community energy[edit | edit source]
Brixton Energy, not-for-profit co-operative who create cooperatively owned renewable energy projects
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle[edit | edit source]
- Lambeth Freecycle(TM)
- Remakery (formerly Brixton Reuse Centre) a springboard for local reuse enterprise
Free stuff[edit | edit source]
Citizens data initiative[edit | edit source]
Past Events[edit | edit source]
2016
Mar 20 - PopFarm Community Launch eventbrite
See also[edit | edit source]
- Topic overview: Community resources, Free stuff, Citizens data initiative
- UK context: Community resources UK, Citizens data initiative UK
- Lambeth community action
- Lambeth news