The future of VCSE support in Lambeth
Help shape a stronger infrastructure that works for all voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.
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The next chapter for supporting Lambeth’s VCSE Sector.
Lambeth’s voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector is full of ideas, relationships and local experience. Every organisation holds valuable insight into what enables communities to thrive.
For too long, however, there hasn’t been consistent, long-term, sector-wide infrastructure support in the borough. In response, the sector hasn’t stood still — it has stepped up. Peer-led networks, shared learning, collaboration and mutual support have continued to grow from within our communities, building practical knowledge about what enables their work — and what could better support it.
Every day, organisations across the borough respond to need, strengthen community life, challenge inequality and improve the lives of thousands of residents, holding together the fabric of local life.
This initiative builds on that strength and starts from a simple belief: The future of VCSE support in Lambeth should be shaped by the sector itself.
We’re working to:
understand what support is really needed across Lambeth
explore what good, sector-led VCSE support could look like
build a shared vision and roadmap for the next few years
This is an open invitation to Lambeth’s VCSE sector to shape the future of infrastructure support together.
What's Coming Up
Events, conversations and opportunities to get involved
VCS Networking Breakfast: Meet the VCS leadership circle.
The Brixton Project is hosting a networking event as part of their Leadership and Advocacy VCS support contracted by Lambeth Council.
Thursday 7 May, 9–10am
Lambeth VCSE Future Conversations are being held on the following dates:
19th May: 10 - 11 am
Online
22nd May: 12 - 1 pm,
International House
26th May: 10 - 11 am
Online
29th May: 12 - 1 pm,
Venue TBC
2nd June: 10 - 11 am
Online
5th June: 12 - 1 pm,
Venue TBC
Progress updates
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LAMBETH VCSE FUTURE LUNCH AND LEARN: Beginning the conversation, Tuesday, 31st March
LAMBETH VCSE FUTURE BREAKFAST AND LEARN: Beginning the conversation, Wednesday, 1st April
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2026
Impact on Urban Health has brought together High Trees, The Brixton Project and Pierre Consulting to deliver a sector-wide engagement campaign to inform the development of Lambeth’s VCSE Infrastructure Support beyond 2027.
We believe there is a real opportunity to develop a model for VCSE support that is sector-led and shaped to provide meaningful support for a dynamic and growing sector.
About this initiativeFunded by
We collaborate with partners and share what we learn to build health equity for people in Lambeth and Southwark and beyond.
Delivery team
Pierre Consulting
Our vision is to unlock bold leadership and resilient organisations that think systemically, exercise authority with wisdom, and lead with purpose—cultivating adaptability, strong performance, and lasting impact.
We support organisations to lead change and deepen their impact. Drawing on organisational psychology and systems thinking, we analyse structures, processes, culture, and relationships to help organisations strengthen performance, improve efficiency, and work more effectively. Through strategic consultancy and specialist coaching, we partner with leaders and teams to enable meaningful and sustainable transformation.
The Brixton Project
The Brixton Project is a participatory placemaking organisation working across the UK to commission creative and cultural programming that increases access, strengthens communities, and supports inclusive place-based development.
Using the public realm as a creative canvas, they centre underrepresented voices and enable people to express their heritage, identity, and experience. The Brixton Project brings creatives and cultural institutions together with residents, businesses, academics, funders, and policy makers to address intersecting social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Through public activations they create participatory spaces where everyone can contribute; fostering dialogue, collaboration, and our collective imagination to strengthen resilient, connected communities.
High Trees
High Trees is a community development trust based in Tulse Hill, Lambeth. Established by local residents in 1998 to bring a closed library into community ownership. High Trees has grown into a multidisciplinary charity delivering education and training, employment support, children and young people’s services, community action and community-based research. Each year, High Trees works with over 1,500 individuals to improve skills, confidence, wellbeing and access to employment.
Alongside frontline services, High Trees plays a key infrastructure role in Lambeth’s voluntary and community sector (VCS) alongside their work strengthening collaboration and community-led action across the borough. High Trees leads the Lambeth Community Hubs Network and the Lambeth Community Research Network, is a commissioned partner within the Lambeth Sector Support contract (2025–27) providing capacity building support across the borough and also provides a further enhanced offer to Tulse Hill-based organisations.
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