The latest news round-up from our three Councillors Emily Hickson, Sam Dalton and Sunil Chopra arrived this week: Community Infrastructure Levy Funding - after a second meeting earlier in the year, Councillors will be finalising their funding decisions by end March. New TRA - Councillors...
Fresh from the Collect event at Somerset House, a new exhibition has opened at the London Glassblowing Centre, Gather: Breaking Boundaries, featuring some of the same talented artists and more. The London Glassblowing Centre is at 62-66 Bermondsey Street SE1 3UD. More here http://www.londonglassblowing.co.uk ...
What does March bring at Morocco Bound? There is never a short answer...
Trees for Bermondsey, a local charity, has organised an afternoon of wassail fun from 3pm at The Blue Marketplace, Bermondsey SE16 3UQ. There will be music, singing, lantern- and crown-making and special guests from 3pm and a lantern-lit processon at 4.30pm to the Rouel estate...
There will be a multi-ward meeting, including our ward London Bridge & West Bermondsey at the Council's offices in Tooley Street on Tuesday 18 March at 6pm. The purpose of the meeting is to announce allocation of community funding - Neighbourhoods Fund, Cleaner Greener Safer...
The latest update from Mace...
Anne Desmet RA and Eames Fine Art present her latest exhibition A London Kaleidoscope from Thursday 6 March. It brings together prints and unique collages on paper, new and from her archive, as well as some exhibited at the Pallant Gallery, Chichester and the Guildhall...
Studio Soma has recently opened on Crimscott Street. It is Bermondsey's newest women-only strength training gym and is much more than just a workout space. It is run by Katie Siddle and team who are aiming to build a community where women feel empowered to...
Local resident Russell Milton, actor, director and teacher is offering acting workshops for all comers including complete beginners. The workshops will take a mindful Scene Study approach to the craft of acting, in a creative and inclusive environment. Using modern plays and practitioners from Michael...
Tower Bridge will be putting on some special family activities to celebrate British Science Week. You can find out how Victorian coal boilers work and try generating your own electric power with our hand crank generators. They are open to children of all ages, but...
A great programme of free activities and events will be taking place in March, in what is believed to be the first ever Bermondsey Literary Festival. The programme includes talks by crime historians Dr Angela Buckley and Sarah Bax Horton; Michael Holland on his unique...
How wonderful that the independent cinema in Bermondsey Square is once again offering a lively programme of films. Now called the Arzner and under new management, the team has put together a programme of huge variety focusing on LBBTQ+ themes and starting Thursday 27 February....
This new self-guided walk runs from London Bridge area over into Bankside past a number of medical history landmarks on the way. Take a walk through medical history and modern wellbeing and explore the medicinal connections from the Florence Nightingale Museum to the Old Operating...
Mace, the contractor at the Edge London bridge construction site, tells us that work has already begun to re-instate the road surface in Fenning Street. Weeks ago, a sinkhole suddenly appeared and the street was closed to vehicles and pedestrians. The hole has now been...
A planning application has been submitted for 1-4 Tanner Street, to replace the small vent in the rear wall with a significantly bigger vent 500mm x 500mm. This could indicate that there is a plan to change the use of the ground floor, currently offices,...
Southwark Public Health team has been in touch about a new survey they have launched, as part of their review of local pharmacies. They want to understand your experience of local pharmacy services, to help identify current and future need for pharmacy services in Southwark....
Southwark Council's Scrutiny Committee Chair, Cllr Ian Wingfield, this week invited BermondseyStreet.London to address the committee on the latest proposals by the Council for how major developers should engage with the community. Two local organisations BermondseyStreet.London and We❤️Snowsfields have commented on the changes that the...
Message from Southwark Council to publicise apprenticeship opportunities for employers and apprentices...
The metropolitan Police tell us there has been a spate of retail burglaries in Bermondsey Street recently, mostly as a result of a burglar bearkign glass in wondows or doors. Here is the Police advice to retailers. This is a shortened version. If you would...
This week there has been an email from Julia and team at Milo and the Bull on Bermondsey Street. The new reformer pilates studio is up and running, with an introductory offer of Two Classes for £25. More here. The reformer studio is at 163...
BermondseyStreet.London this week submitted its objection to the proposed upwards extension of 2 Newham's Row, just off Bermondsey Street. This building is just on the edge of the Bermondsey Street conservation area and visible from Bermondsey Street at the entrance to Newham's Row and from...
Southwark Council published its strategy which will guide its decision-making and work through till 2030, which you can see here Southwark 2030 .Cabinet has now also agreed its delivery plan 2025-26 Creating Good Lives Together. The plan includes investing £250 million to make council homes...
Morocco Bound has a great music line-up this month, with gigs from New Teeth, The Sharp Edge Trio, Dom Howard, Okay Okay and more; first comedy of 2025 with headliner ROSIE JONES; bookshop sessions; jazz and folk music by candlelight on Thursday evenings and a...
The Drawing Room's next exhibition Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World, opens on Thursday 13 February. It's the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London public gallery. Pandhal uses wall drawings, small and large-scale drawings on paper and animations to create mythical narratives that explore the complexities...
Excerpts from this week's Southwark Council email update, more on the challenges of waste: >> Want to see what happens to your recycling? The world of rubbish and recycling is fascinating and now you can find out more by visiting Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility off the...
Even with some winter sunshine, the rose garden in Leathermarket Gardens (pictured) is looking rather sad. But hurrah, the fencing round it has at last been removed, so we can look forward to seeing and smelling those wonderful roses later in the year when they...
Forma opens its first exhibition at Bermondsey Square on Saturday 8 February 2025 in the space previously managed by Vitrine. Forma focuses on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with artists that challenge existing practices, span multiple artistic disciplines, and demand new levels of ambition. The new exhibition...
Theaster Gates new exhibition at White Cube gallery is title 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise and opens on 7 February. The exhibition fills the gallery with a series of new works honouring the arefully kept archive of the late journalist, Ei Nagata, and...
Southwark Pride Fund returns with £30,000 available for LGBTQI+ events. Southwark's LGBTQI+ community and organisations can now apply for funding to support their Pride events. The fund aims to celebrate and uplift LGBTQI+ communities by supporting events that highlight lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer...
This exhibition of works by Mychael Barratt, Homage Part II, continues the artist's playful and witty approach to paying homage to his art heroes (and their pets). He recreates iconic pictures, in the style of the artist, and incorporates their (usually imagined) cats or dogs...