Advice Hub 

Get guidance on housing, immigration, employment, domestic abuse and other issues by coming along to the Advice Hub every Wednesday between 9:30am and 12:30pm. It’s completely free and is on a first come, first served basis. Every Wednesday 9:30am -12:30pm at Moorings Sociable Club, Thamesmead, SE28 8BG. 07815 734080  geogia.mann@peabody.org.uk 

Food provisions in Thamesmead 

Foodbank support 

If you find yourself in an emergency situation and you need access to free food, support can be accessed via a local foodbank. It’s important to get a food bank voucher before attending. These can be accessed by calling Positive Steps on the number below. Our referral agent will also work with you to find a location and day that suits you best. 

FOOD club 

Family Action launched Food on Our Doorstep (FOOD) Clubs to provide good-quality food at a lower cost, while also reducing food waste. It costs £1 a year for a family to sign-up and members can purchase a bag of healthy food items worth around £15 every week for just £4. 

Every Friday 11am - 1pm at Jubilee Community Centre, Lytton Strachey Path, SE28 8DU 07815 343 080 

Events and activities

Winter Sculpture Park Opening Party 

Thamesmead will be home to London’s largest free sculpture park as part of the former golf course transforms into a huge open-air exhibition space! Join the organisers, No.32, at the launch party of the park on Saturday 1 March 2025. 

Saturday 1 March 2025 11am - 5pm SE28 8QS | what3words: ///Hedge.Thus.Reward  

Healthy cookery classes 

Join these tutor-led classes to learn how to prepare delicious and healthy meals! The course will take place every Tuesday across a 5-week period and is open to anyone aged 18 or over. 

Tuesday 4 March 2025 - 1 April 2025 11am -1:30pm Lakeview Court, Central Thamesmead, SE28 8GL 

Bike Days 2025 

Learn basic bike maintenance skills from a specialist, Dr Bike. Help keep your bike secure by having it security marked or borrow one of our bikes and learn to cycle through an instructor led session! 

Khadeja Chowdhury - 07765 742387 Book your space for Bike Days 2025 on eventbrite 

Saturday 29 March and 26 April 10am - 12pm Sporting Club, Thamesmead, SE28 8NJ 

Repair and reuse programme 

We’re working with Lovell, who are helping deliver the second phase of new homes in South Thamesmead, to find out what would help you and your family to save money and to make small changes so that less items go to landfill. We would love to hear ideas on how residents can get more value from their items and cut down on unnecessary spending.” 

You can fill in this short questionnaire to share your ideas with us. All participants will be automatically entered into a raffle with a chance to win a £50 voucher! 

Young Greenwich Parents Online Support Groups March - June 2025

These are free for parents to attend and will be online for their convenience. For parents that live, work in Greenwich or have children aged 10-18 that attend school in the borough.

From March, we are running weekly online sessions for parents to support them with a range of challenges they may be facing. There will be two groups; one for general parenting support and one for parents of teens who are neurodivergent (or on the pathway for assessment).

The sessions are one hour long and will take place at lunchtime to allow parents to attend without interrupting their days or having to find childcare. Each month we will explore a different theme, as listed below:

Support Group for Parents of Neurodivergent Teens: 

• MARCH: Understanding Triggers; learning what they are, why they happen and what you can do about them.
• APRIL: Advocation; how to advocate for your teen and teach them the skills to advocate for themselves.
• MAY: Social Skills Building; teaching your teen how to navigate relationships with more ease.
• JUNE: The importance of Support: how to identify and build your support village.

General Support Group Themes:

• MARCH: Teen Anger; learn why it happens and how to manage it.
• APRIL: Screen Time and Digital Safety; how to talk about it, manage safety and prevent arguments.
• MAY: Getting Your Teen to Listen; learn strategies for effective and harmonious communication with your teen.
• JUNE: Peer Pressure: understanding it’s impact and how to support your teen to be an individual.

Young Greenwich Parents Workshop Flyer

Staying Safe During the Half-Term Holiday

• Remain vigilant and keep music or earphones off to stay aware of your surroundings.
• Choose busy, well-lit streets and avoid taking shortcuts through alleys.
• Keep mobile phones and other valuables hidden from view.
• Always inform your parents or carers of your destination, plans, and expected return time.
• Remember to look before crossing the road—avoid distractions while crossing.

Resources for Support:

• Young Minds (Mental Health Support) - www.youngminds.org.uk
• Kooth (Free, anonymous, and safe space for well-being support) - www.kooth.com
• Child Line (Help and advice on various issues) - www.childline.org.uk or call 0800 1111

Over the past 20 years, since the first UK LGBT+ History Month in 2005, we have highlighted the incredible things LGBT+ people in all our diversity have achieved throughout history in all areas of life.

LGBT+ History Month 2025

LGBT+ History Month Quiz

Schools Poetry Competition - Deadline 28th February 2025

Over the past 50 years Schools OUT have worked to #educateOUTprejudice and usualise LGBT+ lives, creating learning environments where all LGBT+ people feel safe, seen, and supported; which is why we founded UK LGBT+ History Month following the repeal of Section 28 to be a dedicated space to celebrate our rich and diverse history, herstory, theirstory. This year it is even more important that we:

• Claim our past
• Celebrate our present
• Create our future

Activism and Social Change

Throughout history LGBT+ people have been activists and helped shape and create social change, advancing society for everyone using many different approaches to activism:

• Protests and rallies
• Campaigns – letter writing and social media
• Boycotts and direct action
• Collaboration and education
• Art and music
• Literature and poetry
• Theatre, film, comedy and dance
• Crafts from banners to zines
• Living openly

Each year we choose five LGBT+ historical figures in line with the theme to highlight. This year we have chosen five LGBT+ people who have created social change from across the centuries in progressing change for women, the environment, housing, nuclear disarmament, preserving heritage, abolition of the slave trade, and immigration, among many other causes.

The 2025 LGBT+ Historical Figures are: Octavia Hill, Ivor Cummings, Annie Kenney, Charlie Kiss, and Olaudah Equiano.

The official 2025 UK LGBT+ History Month badge was designed by Emily, a 12-year-old pupil from St Anthony’s Girls’ Catholic Academy in Sunderland who was the winner of our Schools badge competition. Buy your badge here.

“I was inspired to draw the megaphone because everyone deserves to be heard and sometimes to be heard you need help to be loud. The colours coming out of the megaphone were the LGBT+ flag, to represent everyone and how we need to be loud about the LGBT+ community and its history. It was important to support the community even if you aren’t a part of it, it is important to be an ally and to be kind. I made the badge a different shape to make it stand out and raise more awareness. I feel my badge means a kit because I can raise awareness and I feel like I have made a difference so I am very happy!”

Local events

• February half term 2025 events | Queen's House Greenwich
• Nature Roadshow | The Royal Parks
• Exhibition: Let's Make Some Noise | Woolwich Works
• Free Cookery Clubs in Greenwich!
• Bridging Generations: Family Play and Connect
• Celebrating Black Identity Through Hair
• Calendar - Young Greenwich Youth Services
• Thamesmead Pennywort removal - Thamesmead
• 32 places where kids eat free in January 2025                                                                                    

London events

• Lunar New Year Family Day | Half Term | Free | Museum of the Home
• Winter Lights
• Imagine's Giant Chalkboard | Southbank Centre
• Afro Dance With HomeBros | Southbank Centre
• Singing All Over the World | Southbank Centre
• When Stories Come Alive! | Southbank Centre
• The Meditation Station | Southbank Centre
• ZooNation's Hip-Hop Half-Term | Southbank Centre
• Prancer the Dancer's DanceDanceDiscoParty FunShow | Southbank Centre
• LPO Showcase: Junior Artists | Southbank Centre
• Digital Kids: Listening Garden - Drop-in at V&A South Kensington · V&A
• February Half Term: How Food Shapes Us - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A
• Makers Club (11-14) - Workshop at Young V&A · V&A
• February half-term: Decoding pictures | Events container | National Gallery, London
• Family Day: picture yourself - National Portrait Gallery
• Family Event: Museum of Imagination with Mustafa | UCL CULTURE - UCL – University College London
• LEGO Group spring workshop - City of London
• Light Festival 2025 | Battersea Power Station
• Family Learning Events at Camley Street Natural Park | London Wildlife Trust
• Here We Glow - Events | Westfield London
• House party – make a mini model of your home Tickets, Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 11:00 | Eventbrite
• War rugs: Afghanistan's knotted history | British Museum
• Play Studio | Tate Britain
• Top things to see for free | London Museum
• February half term | London Museum
• Object handling | Science Museum