Community and living
Information about how to get involved in Lambeth's communities, and services helping you with your life in Lambeth.
Information on how to report crime and anti-social behaviour, advice around hate crime, personal safety tips and community safety contacts. There is also a section that focuses on community safety issues and initiatives in your local area.
Lambeth residents and visitors can now receive text and email messages from the police alerting them to local emergencies.
The London-wide CommunitySafe scheme allows anyone living or working in the borough to register for the alerts which tell you when and where a critical incident has happened, details about road blocks and cordons or crime prevention messages.
For further information visit CommunitySafe.gov.uk.
We can help you register a birth, organise a civil naming ceremony and get copies of birth certificates.
We hold regular citizenship ceremonies and arrange and perform commitment ceremonies. Same-sex couples wishing to form a civil partnership can now register for their big day with Lambeth Register Office. We also provide a nationality checking service that makes applying for British citizenship simpler.
Details of community centres and facilities in Lambeth, including how to book a room in the Town Hall, Brixton.
Making Lambeth a safer place to live, work and visit is central to our community safety strategy.
Information on registering a death and advice on burials, funerals, cremations and memorials.
Lambeth Council is genuinely committed to achieving best practice in equalities and diversity.
We aim to encourage and enable people of different faiths and cultures to understand and respect one another as 'people of faith'.
Information for care providers about resources and services in Lambeth.
We will help you arrange commitment or renewal of marriage vows ceremonies, guide you through the legal preliminaries to marriage and help you with your marriage arrangement and ceremony. We can also issue copies of certificates and help you perform historical searches.
Safety information for the borough regarding dangerous structures and fireworks.
Volunteering opportunities in Lambeth.
Our youth offending service works with young people and the community to prevent offending by children and young people.