Events

A club designed to support children learning to read, struggling readers, and those learning English. The sessions are led by a retired school teacher and provide personalised guidance to help children build confidence in reading.

Chatterbooks is a reading group with a difference. Each month we talk about what we've been reading, play games and do lots of activities all around the wonderful world of books. This is aimed to target 7-12yr olds.

Are you between the ages of 7 and 11 and love to read? Then join our book club to talk about books, write reviews, make new friends, and have a blast with fun activities! Light refreshments provided.

Join Lambeth Historian and local resident, Tracey Gregory to explore the history of the schools, college and community institutions that helped make the Minet Estate and the area around Myatt’s Fields Park a centre of learning and culture.

Join our librarians in the children’s library for our interactive wriggle and rhyme each Tuesday and Thursday morning.

Join our librarians in the children’s library for our interactive wriggle and rhyme.

Get into reading – gives you a place to relax, a chance to make new friends and a new way to share reading.

You don’t have to read anything. You can simply drop in and enjoy having a good story or poem read to you.

Good Things Foundation are giving away SIM cards via Lambeth Clapham library for adults (over 18) who need smartphone access or to be able to text for jobseeking etc

Gain employment, move into education or find voluntary opportunities

What can I expect?

Discover the history of electrical and standardised time with a free curator’s tour of the museum and workshop at The Clockworks.

Are you interested in gardening?
Do you enjoy spending time outdoors, learning new skills, and helping your local community?
The Minet Garden is in need of a tidy up and we’d love your help!

Discover industrialists like Charles Seely and Henry Thrale whose influence over the area and beyond helped place Furzedown and Streatham on the map.

Step inside the hand-carved home of Kenyan poet Khadambi Asalache before joining house volunteer and Lambeth Tour Guide Nkechi Noel to trace the stories linking this house to the wider history of Wandsworth Road.

From St Pauls we will walk down Rectory Grove to Old Town. We will admire the lovely Queen Anne houses and the Polygon.

Iain Boulton offers a colourful guide to the ‘common lands’ of Lambeth as found at Clapham, Streatham, Tooting, and Rush Commons. What were ‘commons’, why did they come into existence, how were they managed and how have they changed since?

This is a walking tour exploring artists and art in Stockwell. We pass the homes and workplaces of artists, stop at murals and sculptures, and linger in gardens.

Moving back in time beyond Windrush Square and Electric Avenue, Jon Newman leads a walk into the Georgian ribbon-development and the Regency suburb of Brixton, perhaps its true historic heart.

Explore and learn both old and new crafts. Enjoy various weekly workshops, including drawing, painting, flower pressing, and more, with materials provided.