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BRIXTON BUGLE YOUR FREE
No 47 | OCTOBER 2016
Published monthly in and for Brixton
BRIXTON DESIGN TRAIL
Reports and pictures: pages 12–14
ISSN 2397-852X
COMMUNITY PAPER
NEW NAME FOR BRIXTON SPLASH!
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I AM YOUR AMPLIFIER Meet Lambeth’s Youth MP
WE’RE LISTENING
Council’s Lib Peck tells us
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YOU’RE WELCOME By Alan Slingsby
Four Syrian refugee families have been welcomed to Lambeth at a celebration in St Gabriel’s College in Myatt’s Fields. Representatives of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular groups joined Lambeth mayor Saleha Jaffer, deputy council leader Paul McGlone and Donatus Anyanwu, the council’s lead member for community relations, at the party. One speaker, Rabbi Janet Darley, told how, two years ago, she and mayor Jaffer, a Muslim, had been at a 50-strong gathering in Brixton’s Windrush Square to celebrate the Jewish festival of Succot and to launch the campaign to welcome refugees to Lambeth.
Lambeth mayor and Saleha Jaffer deputy council leader Paul McGlone listen as Rabbi Janet Darley explains how the campaign to welcome refugees to Lambeth began. Right: Rev David Musgrave of Brixton Hill Methodist church
Lambeth has so far welcomed four of the 20 Syrian refugee families that the council has
agreed to accommodate – making it the borough that has agreed to do most to help Syrian refugees.
Rev. David Musgrave, of the Lambeth circuit of the Methodist church, told the celebration: “So much has been done, so much needs to be done.” The minister-in-charge of Brixton Hill and Mostyn Road Methodist churches said that when he visited the Calais refugee camp: “The image frozen in my brain was of a nine-year-old-boy saying simply that all he wanted was a safe house and a bed to sleep in.” The Citizens UK charity has been at the forefront of the campaign, as have students from St Gabriel’s. One of them, Nora Serrieh, opened proceedings. “Our idea was that our school could be a place continued over page
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