Here is a useful list of all the free community spaces and drinking fountains in Southwark where anyone is welcome to go and cool down during the heatwave.
Mayor Sadiq Khan’s cool spaces map is live every year from 1 June until 30 September and provides an interactive tool to help keep Londoner’s safe.
If you know of a cool space that’s not on the list, you can fill in a cool spaces form and the Mayor’s team will review submissions and include them in future maps.
Indoor spaces with air-conditioning:
The Tate Modern, Southbank:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 250 seats available
- Open Monday to Friday, 9am – 7pm and Saturday, 9am – 5pm
- Tate Modern, Bankside, Southwark, SE1 9TG
John Harvard Library, Borough:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 200 seats available
- Open Monday – Friday, 9am – 7pm and Saturday, 9am – 5pm
- 211 Borough High Street, SE1 1JA
Blue Anchor Library, Bermondsey:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 100 seats available
- Open Monday, 9am – 7pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 10am – 6pm and Saturday, 9am – 5pm
- Market Place, Southwark Park Road, SE16 3UQ
Imperial War Museum, Elephant and Castle:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Fully accessible for wheelchair users
- Most gallery spaces are air conditioned. Atrium and terraced spaces are but are in the shade so are cooler than outside
- 50 seats available
- Open Monday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm
- Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ
Walworth Library / Southwark Heritage Centre, Walworth:
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- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 150 seats available
- Open Monday – Friday, 10am – 8pm, Saturday, 10am – 5pm and Sunday 12pm – 4pm
- 145 – 147 Walworth Road, SE17 1RW
The Link’s Community Centre, Rotherhithe:
- Free drinking water, tea or coffee and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 100 seats available
- Open Monday and Tuesday, 11am – 3:30pm, Wednesday, 12pm – 3:30pm, Thursday, 11am – 3:30pm
- 353 Rotherhithe New Road, SE16 SHF
Peckham Library, Peckham:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 600 seats available
- Open Monday – Friday 9am – 8pm, Saturday (open at 10am on Wednesday), 10am – 5pm and Sunday 12pm – 4pm
- 122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR
Grove Vale Library, East Dulwich:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 30 seats available
- Open Monday – Thursday 10am – 7pm (closed Wednesday), Friday, 10am – 3pm and Saturday 10am – 5pm
- 18 – 22 Grove Vale, SE22 8EF
Kingswood Library, Sydenham:
- Free drinking water and toilets available
- Suitable for all: older people, young children, wheelchair users and pregnant women
- 30 seats available
- Open Monday and Thursday 2pm – 6pm, Tuesday and Friday, 10am – 2pm and Saturday 1pm – 5pm
- 37 – 38 Seeley Drive, SE21 8QR
Free drinking water fountains:
- Little Dorrit Park, near Borough station, Disney Pl, London, SE1 1HJ
- Guy’s Hospital (entrance opposite London Bridge station, by the Shard)
- Potters Field Park, Tooley Street, London Bridge, SE1
- Rotherhithe Station, Rotherhithe, SE16
- Brimmington Park, Culmore Road, SE15 2RQ
- Camberwell Green, SE5
- King’s College Hospital, SE5
- Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ
- Dulwich Village, Calton Avenue, SE21
