kids at the Blue

The Southwark Portrait Bench
Girl rock climbing

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Southwark residents and community groups are being urged to start thinking about their neighbourhood and how they want to improve it, as Southwark Council’s Cleaner Greener Safer Programme gets underway.The window for applications to the council starts on October 29 2011 with a closing date of January 6 2012. Further details are available from Gill Kelly on 0207 525 3690.

The Southwark Portrait Bench

Choose the people that represent your community

The Portrait Bench, part of a unique national public art project, is a simple bench with three life-size effigies of local characters chosen by you to represent the local culture and history. The bench will be installed along the new walking and cycling route between Camberwell & Rotherhithe via South Bermondsey, which is part of Sustrans’ national project bringing the National Cycle Network into the heart of communities across the UK.

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