News - Camden Rise

Children and young people can keep active and get creative with free half-term activities, run within public health guidelines. Online and face-to-face creative courses for 13 to 19 year olds who live or study in Camden are being run by Camden Summer University. To find out more and book your places, visit the CSU website  Girls Get Moving is back at Talacre Sports Centre, in Kentish...

To celebrate and educate during Black History Month, this year Camden Summer University is hosting a select range of creative courses for young people in Camden. Some courses will be online and some in classrooms, with limited spaces available to book now. If you are interested, please call 020 7974 7263 or email [email protected] All bookings will be made through the...

As part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week (10 to 17 October), Camden Council has launched a creative competition for children and young people. Children and young people who live or study in Camden are being invited to enter prose, poetry or artwork in two age categories: ages 5 to 11 and ages 12 to 21. The winners will have their work published in our libraries and will receive a...

Camden Council has launched a ‘Black History Season’ to celebrate the incredible achievements and contributions of Black people across the borough and the rest of the UK - with some exciting events for young people announced too. Black History Season will be celebrated with a series of 'virtual' online events - including a free Black Young Entrepreneurs event on Thursday 5 November,...

Young people have spruced up their neighbourhood in Gospel Oak as part of a graffiti art project run by a local charity. Shop shutters in Lismore Circus have been given a fresh look thanks to the young artists, who have been working with the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation and Sam Sure, a graffiti artist and a singer-songwriter. The foundation won funding from Camden Council following...