Personal Greening: local resources

Packaging free shopping

Herne Hill

Naked Larder: A low cost packaging free shop run by XRL members offering food, self care and cleaning products. They are offering 15% off your first order, quote “XRL website” when you register.

Jarr: Packaging free shop offering food, self-care and cleaning products.

Brixton

Pipoca: Packaging free shop offering food, self-care and cleaning products and a vegan cafe.

Guzzl: Refills of olive oil, olives and gin!

Streatham

Healthier Without: Packaging free shop,  offering food, self-care and cleaning products.

Local Greens: Low packaging local vegetables with click-and-collect collection points in Herne Hill, East Dulwich, Brixton, Camberwell, Peckham, West Dulwich, West Norwood and Crystal Palace.

Clapham Junction

The Source: Packaging free shopping offering food, self-care and cleaning products.

West Norwood

Sustenance: Packaging free shopping offering food, self-care and cleaning products. 

Tooting

BYO: Packaging free shopping offering food, self-care and cleaning products. 

Crystal Palace

Roots and Cycles: Packaging free shopping offering food, self-care and cleaning products

The Store Cupboard: Packaging free shopping in the Crystal Palace Food Market offering food, self-care and cleaning products.

2nd hand shops

Brixton

Bookmongers: second-hand books.

Chartwell Cancer Trust: anything and everything!

Traid: fashion/retro clothing

Herne Hill

Oxfam: donated clothes, accessories, homewares and music. Also stocks Fairtrade food, greetings cards and stationery.

Oxfam bookshop: branch of the charity shop dedicated to second books.

West Norwood

Emmaus: second-hand furniture, electricals, clothes and bric-a-brac. Run by a charity offering support and opportunities for homeless people in the local area. Various stores in Knights Hill, West Norwood with another branch in Brixton.

Streatham

Occasional Books: second-hand book shop that also stocks second-hand vinyl.

All Aboard: Clothing, bric-a-brac and household goods.

Royal Trinity Hospice (Streatham Hill store / Streatham high road store): Clothing, bric-a-brac and household goods. Two branches at either end of Streatham high road.

Cancer Research: Clothing, bric-a-brac and household goods.

British Heart Foundation: Second-hand books and music.

Oxfam: Donated clothes, accessories, homewares and music. Also stocks Fairtrade food, greetings cards and stationery.

Sense: Clothing, bric-a-brac and household goods.

Shelter: Clothing, bric-a-brac and household goods.

Vegan Restaurants/cafes

Brixton

Cafe Van Gogh: 100% vegan cafe/restaurant. Non-profit social enterprise offering training for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems. 

Owee Burgers: "Deliciously dirty" vegan burgers and fries.

Pipoca: Vegan cafe with packaging-free shopping also available.

The Cure: small vegan cafe also serving cleansing juices and smoothies. 

Katakata: crepes and galettes, not fully vegan but many vegan and vegetarian options

Clapham

En Root: Indian-inspired vegan food full of "fresh seasonal vegetables, wholesome pulses and aromatic Gujarati".

Herne Hill

V Source: small cafe and takeaway offering Caribbean inspired vegan food

Peachy Goat: plant-based burger joint

Streatham

Whole Meal Cafe: vegan cafe, part of the fabric of Streatham since 1978 

Tribe: vegan food from a range of world cuisines

Vauxhall

Bonnington cafe: home-made food with great vegan options and a new menu every day 

Borrowing things, fixing or recycling

Lambeth Libraries: books, digital access to films, magazines, newspapers.

Freecycle: a borough wide free service for people to give away unwanted items away

The Remakery, Loughborough Junction.  Numerous services for fixing things.

The Library of Things: Borrow don’t buy, the closest one is currently in Crystal Palace but they are looking for a venue in Brixton.

Local Sustainability websites/publications

London Food Link and the Jellied Eel magazine

Local Sustainable community projects

The healthy Living Platform

Incredible Edible lambeth:

Plastic Free Brixton, Plastic Free Streatham, Plastic Free West norwood etc

Food Waste Reduction/community food Schemes

The Peoples’ Fridge, Brixton

Too good to go, Lambeth: Food Waste App

Brixton Pound, Loughborough Junction

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