Grow:Brixton

We're GROWING PLACES! The original team behind the winning bid for the central Brixton site are now spreading their love throughout the neighbourhood!

Popes Road / Brixton Station Road - Meanwhile Space, SW9
AN OASIS OF GROWTH - IN THE HEART OF BRIXTON

Presenting Grow:Brixton
We are delighted to have been selected by Lambeth Council in consultation with the local community and traders, to transform the 4000 square meters meanwhile site on Popes Road / Brixton Station Road SW9. Grow:Brixton will be an oasis of multi faceted growth right in the

heart of Brixton. It will transform the location providing a platform to grow knowledge, community, culture and food. Working alongside local businesses, residents and organisations, the site will bloom, turning an empty space full of potential into a vibrant hub to learn, work, play and flourish. Grow:Brixton, in conjunction with our partner organizations, will provide the opportunity to acquire skills in building, horticulture, arts or music. Our focus is to use food growing as a tool to connect people with each other, where their food comes from. We all eat! Lambeth has a strong heritage of food growing. This is very much alive today with Incredible Edible Lambeth championing the many food growers in the borough and its relevance is highlighted by the Lambeth Food Partnership being awarded the status of Flagship Food Borough by the GLA. Grow:Brixton provides an ideal opportunity to promote the growing of food to a much wider audience, reaching out to the unconverted and fusing it with the diverse and unique culture of Brixton and surrounding areas. Alongside horticulture, we will provide space for small businesses, the arts, design, and performance. Our scheme draws inspiration from public spaces and community schemes across Europe. Shipping Containers have been used for many different applications, as they are cheap, versatile, easily up-cycled and can quickly be implemented to create enclosures and define spaces. At Grow:Brixton containers will be used to not only enclose the site, but also to create spaces for small businesses to rent as retail outlets, workshops and studio space and even a handful of live/work spaces. A combination of 20ft and 40ft containers will create a variety of rentable space. grow:knowledge
The site itself will be made up of an evolving modular system of customised shipping containers centering around a large indoor growing space, which will act as a central hub, housing a café and public meeting place. There will be a strong emphasis on a sustainable approach to the whole site, by setting examples on recycling, rainwater capture etc. Each container will be fabricated in situ, working with trainees supported by organisations such as Lambeth College, to transform the units into rentable studios, shops and workshops. grow:food
The kitchen is a vital part of any home and should ideally be at the heart of family life – centering around the eating area, we plan to emulate this by creating a home from home café space right in the middle of the food growing area. grow:growth
Utilising food growing, we can create a ‘plant to plate’ grow scheme. The site will be verdant small scale resource for horticulture. Working with Streetscapes to deliver this element, there will be scope for accredited training programmes for interested parties to get into the industry or simply to learn growing skills to take home. grow:culture
Our ambition is to provide space for makers-in-residence, studio space for artists, musicians, photographers, fashion designers and more, selecting those that either live in Lambeth or will bring extra benefit to the borough. An Event Space will present film, the arts and music performances and can be hired out for private functions. grow:enterprise
We will provide a variety of spaces for rental, some of which will cater towards startup or small businesses to help them to flourish in this central Brixton location. There will be a variety of live/work spaces, workshops, studio’s, retail and performance spaces up for rent. To express your interest go to www.growbrixton.co.uk

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grow:brixton could just be the start – by setting a precedent with it, we can roll out the model to future locations, creating a network of grow:### sites across the borough and beyond, that act as resourceful urban village greens, a place for people to meet, learn, work and play. We will build a knowledge base that we can take forward and be shared with future apprentices building new sites. The infrastructure itself will be very low impact insitu, being built of modular components that can be reconfigured, moved and re-set up at a new location or be split up to work on a number of sites and thus having a bigger impact.

16/12/2021

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04/11/2021

Live or work in Lambeth? Then why not sign up for the BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARDS 2021.

It takes place on THURSDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 7PM -8PM.

There are lots of cash prizes to be won for WINNERS and HIGHLY COMMENDED entries.

The ceremony is free to attend and will be happening online again this year.

Sign up via the Eventbrite link 👇

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blooming-lambeth-awards-2021-tickets-203764534207

We are delighted to announce the date of the BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARDS 2021!

THURSDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 7PM -8PM.

There are lots of cash prizes to be won for WINNERS and HIGHLY COMMENDED entries.

The ceremony is free to attend and will be happening online again this year.

Sign up via our Eventbrite link 👇

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blooming-lambeth-awards-2021-tickets-203764534207

23/07/2021

Last couple of days to cast your vote in the peoples choice categories for the Blooming Lambeth Awards. Help the deserving entrants win cash prizes! 🤩

Click the link and get selecting👇

https://www.incredibleediblelambeth.org/blooming-lambeth-awards/bla-2021/

👋 Have you submitted your vote for the Blooming Lambeth Awards 2021 people choice awards?

4 categories with great submissions need winners & highly commended selected!

Voting closes at midnight on Sunday 25th July

👉 Click the link now and get your vote in! 🍃🌸

https://www.incredibleediblelambeth.org/blooming-lambeth-awards/bla-2021/

11/06/2021

Get your nominations in ASAP for the BLOOMING LAMBETH AWARDS 2021.

There are plenty of £150 and £75 prizes to be won! The deadline to submit is 30/06/21. Please spread the word.

Free to enter and petals could mean prizes!

There are 8 categories, so plenty to choose from:

1. Most imaginative growing space in public view (a planter, a balcony, a hanging basket, an unusual container)

2. Ivor Picardo Award for abundant growing of edibles, this could be in a public or private space.

3. Best school garden – Is your school growing food? Does it have a programme to involve all children in outdoor learning?

4. Most enthusiastic young gardener (under 18) – This could be a young person getting involved at home or in their neighbourhood or at their school.

5. Best volunteer for a community growing space – Young or old, we know that there are so many people giving their time to make community gardens run smoothly and effectively.

6. Best resident-led community garden

7. Best garden in bloom (public or private space but must have a public-facing view – eg front garden, therapeutic garden, parklet)

8. Best space for encouraging biodiversity – for example: do the pollinators love your patch? Or are you growing flowers that attract them?

All info you need to enter is in this link: https://www.incredibleediblelambeth.org/news/blooming-lambeth-awards-2021/

Petition: Make Lambeth council work for all voters

13/04/2021

HOLD THE LAMBETH COUNCIL FEW TO ACCOUNT TO THE MANY LAMBETH RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS!

Petition: Make Lambeth council work for all voters Lambeth refused to host this petition on their own site, so activists at onelambeth.co.uk have now launched it on the gopetition website. Here’s the full text from the page:

Take One Leave One – free clothing initiative in Brixton, Windrush Square on Sundays

08/02/2021

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Take One Leave One – free clothing initiative in Brixton, Windrush Square on Sundays Seen last Sunday braving the inclement weather in Windrush Square were the people behind the Take One Leave One initiative for Brixton. The project is straightforward – if you’re in nee…

14/01/2021

‘A Brixton Tale’ – a film shot around the Barrier Block and Somerleyton Estate – to screen at the Slamdance Film Festival 2021.

Written, performed and shot in collaboration with the community, the movie tells the story of a “voyeuristic, wealthy vlogger who finds herself being drawn to a handsome, shy youth from the infamous Barrier Block housing project."

Via Brixton Buzz

‘A Brixton Tale’ – a film shot around the Barrier Block and Somerleyton Estate – to screen at the Slamdance Film Festival 2021 A Brixton Tale, a narrative feature film shot on location ‘around the Barrier Block and Somerleyton Estate,’ will be screened at this year’s Slamdance film festival, taking place …

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16/11/2020

Blooming Lambeth Awards are tomorrow 17/11 at 7pm. All welcome. See link below.

03/11/2020

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29/10/2020

Hondo Tower threatens Lambeth’s transport policy commitments for a Brixton Overground connection With Lambeth set to make a decision on the hugely unpopular planning application by US-backed developers Hondo to build a 20 storey tower in the centre of Brixton, there’s growing concern abo…

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