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Dinner on the Hill: Lewisham’s one-of-a-kind and completely free restaurant

For two years, Dinner on the Hill has been serving a free three-course restaurant experience for families facing food insecurity.

View of site through windows of glass building - the only building that has been built. Convoys Wharf sign visible through window

'Should we be marching on the lot?': A new book charts Deptford’s decades-long resistance

Author Roger Green uses his work alongside housing campaigners Voice for Deptford to suggest strategies for communities fighting regeneration which excludes them.

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'One-party state'? When did Labour take over Lewisham?

Later than you think .. we take you on a whistlestop tour of the council's recent history.

Instructor and participant both smiling with raised hands doing finger exercises

Could you be an instructor for Love to Move?

Parkinson's UK, in partnership with British Gymnastics Foundation, is offering training for individuals or community groups to become volunteer instructors for their innovative seated exercise programme.

Woman sitting in wheelchair smiling with small cockadoodle dog sitting on her lap, dog staring at camera.

Policy designed by us: it's time to reimagine Access to Work

Carmen Yau and Clare Williams, like many other disabled service users, are facing increasing difficulties in claiming Access to Work funding from the DWP. They have a vision of something better.

drawings showing that higher bonnets knocking pedestrians under the vehicle, while lower bonnets deflect them.

SUV proliferation in London: '77% more likely to kill a child'

Research from Clean Cities finds that London's increasing numbers of SUVs present a unique danger to cyclists, pedestrians and particularly to children, alongside high emissions.

Aerial shot of Marvels Lane Primary School, red brick school with pitched roofs, children playing in playground.

Energy-efficient and flicker-free - Selce's new share offer is all about LEDs

Nadia Smith, co-chair at South East London Community Energy (Selce) introduces their latest project to install LED lighting at Marvels Lane Primary School, Lewisham.