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GFL Action Planning until 2027: We want your input!
Here is our draft Good Food Lewisham Three Year Action Plan available to download. Thank you to everyone who has inputted into the plan...
Lewisham Local Card Team
May 1, 20241 min read


Everyone's welcome at Breakspears Mews Community Garden: Lewisham Community Garden series (Part 6)
By Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham volunteer) Diamond-like rain droplets hung from the broccoli leaves at the Breakspears Mews...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Apr 25, 20242 min read


St Mary’s Therapeutic Garden: A haven of calm in the heart of Lewisham (Lewisham Community Garden series, part 5)
By Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham volunteer) A beautiful Prayer Tree greets you as you enter St. Mary's Therapeutic Garden - a...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Mar 21, 20243 min read


Win £50 + Help Good Food Lewisham!
Please Complete Our Short Survey We’d love to get your views and ideas as we plan our priorities for GFL for the next three years. If you...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Downham Men's Group: Gardening, a Good Cuppa + More (Lewisham Community Garden Series Part 4)
By Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham Volunteer) and Helen Jackson Trevor Pybus from Downham Men's Group at Goldsmiths Community...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Mar 14, 20242 min read


Beckenham Place Park Supporting the Local Community (Lewisham Community Garden Series Part 3)
By Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham volunteer) Even in the rain, the Beckenham Place Park (BPP) Community Garden feels like a...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Mar 1, 20242 min read


Lewisham's work on Community Food Action recognised in the Good Food Local Report 2024
A new report, Good Food Local: The London Report, published today by Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, has awarded...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Feb 29, 20243 min read


February Good Food Lewisham Newsletter: Food Growing Special
John Evelyn Community Garden + Allotments We hope everyone’s doing well and looking forward to Spring properly springing. There are...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Feb 21, 20245 min read


Forster Memorial Park Sensory Garden: Weaving Willow on Whitefoot Lane (Lewisham Community Gardens Series Part 2)
by Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham volunteer) As you stand in the Friends of Forster Memorial Park Community Garden and gaze...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Feb 16, 20242 min read


Sydenham Garden: An Oasis in the City (Lewisham Community Gardens Series Part 1)
by Josey Crane Burrows (Good Food Lewisham volunteer) I had the pleasure of visiting Sydenham Garden at the beginning of December - a...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Feb 13, 20242 min read


December GFL Newsletter festive special - warm welcomes, free Christmas meals, locally made gifts
Julian from Grow Lewisham's Herbal Pot Garden with a festive wreath at the RHS Lewisham Hospital Wellbeing Garden Thanks for everything...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Dec 11, 202312 min read


Christmas in Lewisham 2023: Useful Services, Free Meals and Free Food
General Services Lewisham Council Customer Service Centre 020 8314 6000 - open every day, 24/7 Crisis Mental Health Line (South London...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Dec 5, 20239 min read


November Good Food Lewisham Newsletter: Jam-packed with community action + useful resources
Two Mindful Bees Foraging, Cooking and Growing September Activity Lewisham Local Community Exchange Launch & AGM Lewisham Local, who are...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Nov 17, 202313 min read


Lewisham Business Awards
Congratulations to to all the finalist and winners of the Lewisham Business awards Finalists on the stage at The Beautiful Catford...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Nov 13, 20232 min read


Living Wage Week event at Goldsmiths
The rates announcement The new 2023-24 real Living Wage rates were announced on the 24th October as £13.15 in London. Find out more here....
Lewisham Local Card Team
Nov 10, 20232 min read


The Lewisham Food Justice Alliance is launched!
To mark London Challenge Poverty Week (16th -22nd of October 2023), Lewisham Public Health and Lewisham Local invited partners to attend...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Nov 9, 20233 min read


Lewisham independent businesses can accept Healthy Start payment
Adriana Flores Good Food champion and Manager at Petit Village Deptford's vibrant fruit, veg and Health store. Are you a Lewisham food...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Nov 3, 20232 min read


Meet Jo and get the facts on sugar
Meet Jo Tavers BSc RD MBDA The London Nutritionist. Our new Good Food Lewisham Steering group member. Jo is a registered dietician and...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Oct 20, 20233 min read


October Good Food Lewisham Newsletter
October is a busy month in the world of food. The seasons are changing, it’s time for harvest and seed saving, and we're starting to...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Oct 13, 20238 min read


Healthy Start = Help with fruit,veg and milk for Lewisham families.
Currently Lewisham has only a 62% uptake of the scheme resulting in a staggering £413,000 * cash short fall for young families in our...
Lewisham Local Card Team
Oct 6, 20232 min read
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