Nicholas Okwulu set up PemPeople five years ago, aiming to empower residents in north Peckham.

Exhibition at Pem People (91 Peckham High Street) with friend Pat Bates (@european.son.420).

Nicholas Okwulu is the director of PEMPEOPLE based in Peckham, Old Kent Road. His project to develop the Livesey Exchange is an ambition project to support many young people in the community.

Being a community storyteller also required me to go out into communities that I wasn’t familiar with.

Join us for the fourth weekend of Richard Bell’s Embassy

London Festival of Ideas

Hear how Nicholas took part in the Eden Project’s Big Lunch Extras community camp.

Our long-term partner, grassroots Old Kent Road local advocate Nicholas Okwulu of Pempeople and Livesey Exchange, welcomed guests, sharing his experiences of working tirelessly to put community needs first.

LEX is delivering a community hub and workspaces for skill sharing on a currently vacant site in one of London’s largest regeneration areas - Old Kent Road.

Local heroes have a tremendous impact on their community.

Southwark Stories (Nicholas Okwulu)

For this second part of our two-part episode we continue exploring all the amazing work local people are doing to create spaces.

Nicholas Okwulu on urban regeneration and “giving local people an opportunity to be part of something that they thought was too far away”.

Nicholas is a community enabler. As a local resident of Southwark, he has delivered a number of projects in the Old Kent Road.

Black consumers contribute £25 billion to the economy. Today a new wave of business owners is seeking to keep more of that in the community.

Peckham has not always enjoyed the best reputation, often being associated with Del Boy, Damilola Taylor and destitution.

Southwark Stories (Nicholas Okwulu)

For this second part of our two-part episode we continue exploring all the amazing work local people are doing to create spaces.

Nicholas Okwulu on urban regeneration and “giving local people an opportunity to be part of something that they thought was too far away”

Nicholas is a community enabler. As a local resident of Southwark, he has delivered a number of projects in the Old Kent Road.

Black entrepreneurs are helping to create opportunities thanks to the support of consumers who are choosing to ‘buy Black’

Peckham's bad reputation conceals some more positive elements.

The official opening of a brand-new two-storey venue for the Livesey Exchange was held in Old Kent Road today.

The crowdfunded Livesey Exchange 2 on London’s Old Kent Road provides a valuable case study.

The new buildings are being built with funding from Southwark Council and the Greater London Authority

A community project set up to transform the Ledbury Estate’s underground garages is set to leave because of uncertainty about the future of the Peckham estate’s four tower blocks.

The new Livesey Exchange centre is due to be ready for use this spring