It’s back to school season! We’ve got a few courses and learning opportunities listed for you on our latest newsletter. Plus other news, cost-of-living support and opportunities.

Repowering London have produced some useful information for people using pre-payment meters. Know your rights and get support if you are struggling to pay your energy bills. Also, find out about the Priority Services register, which provides extra support for households from energy suppliers, and Thames Water. Read the main points above and find some useful links here:

Citizen's Advice can help if you're worried about energy debt or being moved to prepayment without your consent here. Prefer to Talk? Call 0808 223 1133

Citizens Advice can also help if you are already on prepayment here

UK Power Networks (UKPN) can register you with your electricity, gas and water companies, so you access extra support all in one place here

It can feed us in a crisis, strengthen our local economies and create better places to live. Local food matters.

Sustain share insights from the recently published Local Food Growth Plan, and on how we can scale the local food sector for security, economic and placemaking benefits.

Thursday, 18 September. 11am - 12pm BST

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Do you, or someone you know, live with disabilities and need support? We have listed local organisations that support disability. Find them on our online directory here. And let us know if we have missed you and you'd like to be in the list.

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Afewee Training Centre is launching a Free Saturday School programme from September 2025. For children aged 11-13 in Lambeth. Free Maths & English Tuition. Location: The Advocacy Academy, 2 Beehive Place, Brixton SW9 7QR. Day & Time: Saturdays, 10:00am – 1:00pm. Priority for children from low-income households, single-parent families, and those receiving Free School Meals. Register

Brixton Project's TAMA (The are many alternatives) event of 2025 invites you to join a conversation between Brixton and Birmingham. They will set the scene by exploring doughnut economics, and how it can provide a values-based framework for local transformation where social justice meets ecological boundaries.

It will be an opportunity for listening, learning, questioning and connecting the dots between planetary crises and neighbourhood solutions.

Thursday 11 September, 6-8.30 pm. Free for all. Get your free tickets

The workshop will reflect on this year's World Suicide Prevention Day theme: Changing the Narrative on Suicide. The 90-minute interactive session by It’s a Playground will include anonymous polls, activities, and chat engagement. Participants will also receive a handout and additional tools to share with their community. Register for your free place here

At Lambeth Larder we are working to build a better-connected community that can support those of us in need. How do we do this? Read about us, our vision, mission, work and impact on our recently updated about page. 

Join Integrate Agency and Repowering London for this vital training for VCS organisations to ensure that vulnerable residents and clients have a safe and continuous supply of energy at home. This energy safeguarding training is comprehensive and straightforward, giving you and your colleagues powerful, practical tools to safeguard the most vulnerable people you care for and support in Lambeth. DATE: 4th September, 10-11.30am (Online)

BOOK HERE