Introducing Southwark TV

Creating and managing community media assets is our area of expertise and I am absolutely delighted that we are planning to launch our newest channel, Southwark TV in the first quarter of 2025.

Southwark is one of London’s most a vibrant and diverse boroughs with more than 300,000 residents, 18,000 businesses and 800 community organisations and charities and our plan is to create positive, informative content about the people, places, events and communities from all areas of the borough.

Television, radio, and print remain the most widely used, credible and effective media platforms for keeping people informed about what’s happening around them. Over the years, some media platforms have increasingly become focused on negativity and pursuing political agendas and our plan is to counter this by creating more positive content that our residents find uplifting and informative.

We plan to work very closely with the council, community organisations, local businesses and residents to carefully curate and create content that help:

• Raise the profile of Southwark as a wonderful borough to live, work, school, do business and have loads of fun.

• Create more work experience, apprenticeship, traineeship, internship, self-employment and employment opportunities for residents.

• Promote and celebrate the wonderful things that happen in our communities.

• Amplify the voice of residents.

• Keep our communities informed and engaged. Promote community cohesion.

Following the successful launch of our awardwinning flagship channel Barnet TV in 2015, we now have online community TV channels in Bexley, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow. Over the next three years, we plan to have a channel in every London borough that create opportunities for those interested in a career in the media industry.

Our communities need and deserve media platforms that promote positivity, support local authorities, keep residents informed, help local businesses survive and thrive, create employment and self-employment opportunities, and promote community cohesion and we hope Southwark TV will play its part in achieving all these.

Our communities need and deserve media platforms that promote positivity, support local authorities, keep residents informed, help local businesses survive and thrive, create employment and self-employment opportunities, and promote community cohesion and we hope Southwark TV will play its part in achieving all these.

Bidemi Alabi of Southwark TV