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  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Kick Start with our Football Loan Scheme

    • Kennington
    • Free

    Do you enjoy football and want a chance to borrow a good quality football? Lambeth Libraries are excited to have teamed up with the Alive and Kicking Organisation and become an official @weareakuk Football Library!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    KnitWits

    • Norwood
    • Free

    A sociable adult knitting and crochet group. Bring your own knitting/crocheting or use needles, hooks, wool and knitting patterns provided by the group. Help is on hand for any knitting/crocheting queries.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Tony B Happy Drums

    • Brixton
    • Free

    Noisy and joyful from the first beat, these playful drumming sessions let little ones tap, shake, and stomp their way through rhythm, sound, and movement - Free refreshments provided. 

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Doing the Lambeth Walk!

    • Paid

    A 100-minute walking tour based around Lambeth Walk - the street itself, and the local people’s reputation for resilience, resourcefulness and pride, as established in that song and dance!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Chatterbook Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    “Seven turkeys, five sucking pigs, and three miniatures” A History of Lambeth’s own art school, the City and Guilds of London Art School” (Talk)

    • Lambeth wide
    • Free

    This talk by Nick Rampley, the Art School’s Director of Resource, tells the story of City and Guilds of London Art School, from its foundation as the Lambeth School of Art providing instruction to working artisans, to today’s highly regarded, dist

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Free GCSE Maths and English

    • Kennington
    • Free

    Catch up on all your learning with qualified trainer at the library. All welcome.

    16yrs plus!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Gaming Sessions with ESports Youth Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    Calling all gamers! Dive into the exciting world of esports at our Esport Youth Club.  Enjoy thrilling gaming sessions, meet fellow enthusiasts, and challenge your friends in a friendly, competitive environment.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    World Suicide Prevention Day event with Black Men’s Consortium

    • Lambeth wide
    • Streatham
    • Free

    BMC free community engagement day 10  September 6pm to 8pm at Streatham Library 

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Annual Windmill Talk:12 Windmills of Lambeth - Then and Now

    • Brixton
    • Free

    Brixton is the sole survivor but there were others, not just for milling flour, but sawing to supply timber yards and the manufacture of medicines.

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Building “Homes for Tomorrow”: Lambeth’s Public Housing, from 1965-1980 (Exhibition)

    • Brixton
    • Free

    After the creation of the London Borough of Lambeth in 1965, Lambeth’s new Department of Architecture and Planning, led by Ted Hollamby, went on to design some unusually diverse and distinctive council housing across the borough.

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Under 5s Wriggle and Rhyme

    • Brixton
    • Free

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

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Mindfulness Meditation

    • Norwood
    • Free

    Are you looking to find a moment of peace and tranquility in your busy day? Discover the power of mindfulness with our free weekly classes.

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Book at Breakfast - book chat (virtual)

    • Lambeth wide
    • Free

    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.

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    SIM cards giveaway at Clapham Library

    • Clapham
    • Free

    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

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Employment & Training Support

    • Brixton
    • Free

    Gain employment, move into education or find voluntary opportunities

    What can I expect?

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Bereavement Help Point

    • Norwood
    • Free

    Join us weekly to share and connect with others who understand grief and loss. It's not therapy, just a welcoming space for conversations. No forms or referrals needed. For more info, contact Centre 70 Wellbeing at:

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    Homework Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    For parents/carers and their children aged 5 to 11 years. Come and use library books and other resources for help with school homework.

  • 11
    Sep
    2025

    200 years of the Waterloo Commissioner’s Classics

    • Brixton
    • Free

    The flurry of church building in the 1820’s funded by state commission and private donation left us with an unusual legacy of Greek style classical buildings around Lambeth.

  • 12
    Sep
    2025

    Digital Drop-Ins Upper Norwood

    • Norwood
    • Free

    Clear Community Web host