ACORN Lambeth

£8.29 billion of council tax debt is owed in the UK. Up 11% in the last year and 36% in three years
Find out more about the state of council tax debt in the UK and London:
pauladamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/c...
#CouncilTax

🚨 The bulk of the Renters’ Rights Act will will come into force on the 1st of May (🧵)

Complaints about social housing repairs soar THE government came under pressure to let tenants withhold rent over disrepair today, after complaints from social housing residents jumped by over 40 per cent.A report by the Housing Ombudsman…

Complaints about repairs in social housing are up 40%
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comp...
If you're as sick of this as we are, join ACORN and do something about it
acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

Sign ACORN's open letter to the government: No to bully bailiffs & council tax debt!
acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...
#CouncilTax #Bailiffs

✊ Mohammed Hasan Matar from our West Bank affiliate, the PSSC, is heading to Europe to share stories of resistance and organizing under occupation.
🌍 Help fund his tour and amplify Palestinian voices — donate via the link in our bio.

We’re here in Brussels at the ACORN International yearly conference!

Affiliates from Palestine to Cameroon, Canada to Sicily, have come together to learn from each other and share our skills and experience to build ACORN across the world.

Our struggle is global🌍

Marie and her children faced years of leaks, mold and infestations. Her ceiling collapsed, exposing asbestos. After ACORN went to the council offices and demanded better for her, they agreed a schedule of repairs
Read more about it:
www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/06/acor...
#Lambeth

Next Meeting

11 November 18:30-19:30
Advocacy Academy
The Liberation Centre
Beehive Place
SW9 7QR
maps.app.goo.gl/niwXBT2E8CjY...

Contact us and come to the meeting to get involved or discuss a problem that you need help with

lambeth@acorntheunion.org.uk

#Lambeth

Low pay and spiralling rental costs mean women are all too often trapped in appalling accommodation.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...
Join ACORN to push back
acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

The Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee is an ACORN affiliate that strengthens the grassroots Palestinian resistance to Israeli settler colonialism.

Read their story here: popular-struggle.org/our-story/

#Palestine

Next meeting

Next Meeting

11 November 18:30-19:30
Advocacy Academy
The Liberation Centre
Beehive Place
SW9 7QR
maps.app.goo.gl/niwXBT2E8CjY...

Contact us and come to the meeting to get involved or discuss a problem that you need help with

lambeth@acorntheunion.org.uk

#Lambeth

The West Norwood 4 Palestine Free Film Festival continues in November
Get your tickets: opencollective.com/west-norwood...
#Lambeth #Palestine

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Upcoming events from West Norwood 4 Palestine, bailiff campaign from ACORN, donations to Palestine, plus updates on other campaigns and actions.
dub.sh/pamini

@acornlambeth.bsky.social

No surprises here. If you want to do something about it, join ACORN
acorntheunion.org.uk/join/

Lambeth Council has been named three times in a new Housing Ombudsman report which highlights serious damp and mould failings
www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

ACORN members

When Kim from Herne Hill was facing eviction and a huge rent hike in March 2024, we took action, stopped the eviction and reduced the rent hike
Read more about it: www.brixtonbuzz.com/2024/06/comm...
#Lambeth

The Lambeth Renters Survey

ACORN Lambeth wants to hear from YOU 🫵
Are you happy with your landlord? What issues have you been facing?
It's quick, simple and anonymous. 
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Lambeth #Housing #Rent

FIX SAM AND KATHRYN'S HOME

Sam and Kathryn are living with electrical and plumbing disrepair, damp, structural damage and a slug infestation.

Email their letting agent to demand that the disrepair is fixed and they are compensated!

acornuk.good.do/london/Fix_S...

#Lambeth #Housing

FIX SAM AND KATHRYNS HOME

Sam and Kathryn have been facing ongoing disrepair for nearly a third of their tenancy

Email their letting agent to demand that the disrepair is fixed and they are compensated!

acornuk.good.do/london/Fix_S...

#Lambeth #Housing

On @lbc.co.uk this morning, Jules spoke with Matthew Wright about the fight to protect HfL Tenants from eviction.

Let’s be clear: making residents homeless helps no one — least of all those already without a home.

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📢 On Tuesday ACORN shut down a conference of bailiffs and delivered a clear message to Leeds City Council.

Support the fight for dignity, not debt. Support Bailiff Free Britain.

✍️ Sign the petition: acornuk.good.do/englandcampa...

Problem with bailiffs? Head to our Bailiff Member Defence form
acorntheunion.org.uk/contact/bail...
#Bailiffs #Lambeth

Family Lantern Walk For Palestine The children of a local primary school in South East London want to create a space for them, their friends, family and community to show solidarity with Palestine, the land and its people.

The walk is collecting funds for the Sameer Project in North Gaza, a mutual aid project. Click here to donate > chuffed.org/project/1527...

* Not an ACORN event but please come along anyway :)

Bring your homemade lantern, or a torch or bike light to shine for Palestine. We will have some spare jar lanterns too!

If you can bring some snacks and a flask of hot chocolate or tea and cups to share at the end,

🇵🇸 Lantern Walk in Solidarity with Palestine - This Sunday 19th October

Meet 6pm, Brockwell Park, Herne Hill Entrance to walk together

📍https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yp3eKMYN4R7sCAM16?g_st=ic

Led by local children and families from a wide variety of schools in the borough, open to all!

The ACORN Lambeth mini-blog

Bailiff Free Britain, divestment from Israel, plus action and results across the country on repairs, rent and discrimination
Read all about it on the mini-blog dub.sh/acolam
#Lambeth #CouncilTax #Palestine

ACORN is currently campaigning nationwide for an end to the use of bailiffs to collect council tax debt along with other reforms to council tax collection. You can sign the open letter, get involved, and report your own experience with bailiffs here:
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​​https://acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

ACORN occupied the conference floor, holding their own Bailiff Free Britain conference and bringing the bailiff’s event to a standstill.

More than 150 ACORN members from across England and Wales converged on Aspire in Leeds to protest local council’s use of bailiffs to collect council tax debt.

WE JUST SHUT DOWN A DEBT COLLECTORS CONFERENCE
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​​Today ACORN Lambeth took part in ACORN’s national day of action at the Civil Court Users Association Conference.

#Bailiffs #CouncilTax #Lambeth
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🔥 Today, 300 ACORN members from across England and Wales travelled to Leeds and shut down a conference that hosted some of Britain’s biggest bailiff firms.