The Greater London Authority have launched a new website providing statistics on a wide range of social and economic issues from population size and life expectancy to which underground lines carry the most passengers.

Interesting facts about Lewisham include:

City Parochial Foundation and the New Policy Institute have produced a website with details of research into levels of poverty, inequality and social exclusion in London. The information is designed to help organsations make stronger funding applications by giving them some of the information they need to show the level of need locally.

Details specific to Lewisham can be seen here (opens in new window)(external website).

The Office of the Third Sector has released reports on individual local authorities as part of its National Survey of Third Sector Organisations. The survey was carried out by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector and covers Third Sector Organisations' views on how supportive their local authority is. In Lewisham 277 organisations were interviewed.