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Katherine Johnston (08 March, 2021)
Kathleen was honoured with the Keib Thomas Active Citizen of the Year award
Kathleen Heather
This week, to celebrate International Women’s Day, we are profiling some of the remarkable women who have stepped up to support Southwark during the pandemic.
“Always was a community person”, Bermondsey’s Kathleen Heather will be well recognised by readers for her love of events from bringing bingo and tea dancing to the elderly, holding family fun days, to putting on Christmas and Halloween parties for local children.
“This all came to an end March 2020,” says the founder of Love North Southwark, a newly registered CIC made official in December last year. “So, we started the food bank with fresh food twice a week.”