Community

For a while now I have been aware of a group called “The Bear Church”, who celebrate Easter on Hilly Fields by the Brockley Stone…

Folk legend Julie Felix is to top the bill at Ladywell’s very own folk festival on Saturday May 4. Folk Ladywell, which has been sponsored…

Lewisham Local Card is a discount card given freely to volunteers who give their time for free in Lewisham. It is an initiative of Rushey…

Community volunteers with speed guns can help limit speeding by motorists under the Community Roadwatch scheme. Under the roadwatch programme local residents have the opportunity…

The Ladywell Village Spring Barn Dance organised by award winning charity Global Fusion Music and Arts in association with the Ladywell Society takes place on Saturday May 4…

Rushey Green Time Bank, a local charity that encourages people to exchange their time and skills with others to strengthen the local community, is holding…

You may have noticed newly planted street trees in the pavements of Ladywell, writes Dom Eliot. These are probably the work of Street Trees for Living,…

At a time when council services are being cut and squeezed by the government’s punishing austerity measures, assembly funding has proved a lifeline to many…

Sir Alexander Nisbet was a naval surgeon, an honorary physician to  Queen Victoria and a resident of Lee for many years.  When he died in…

The build-up to Brockley Max 2019 is well under way. Organisers are already looking for volunteers to help with staging the festival, people who want…