News - Camden Rise

Young people voted on ideas for new projects and ideas to improve youth safety during the Shout Out debate in the Council Chamber last Thursday (13 February). The event, organised by Camden Youth Council and Camden's Youth MP, was attended by youth clubs and projects across the borough, as well as local secondary school students. About 100 young people voted on which of six pitches they...

Year 9 and 10 students from Acland Burghley School have been announced as the overall winners of the Camden Youth Safety Week 2020 Multi-Media Competition. The students were each presented with £50 vouchers and certificates at an awards event last night (Wednesday, 5 February) by Councillor Abdul Hai, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Young People and Cohesion and Co-Chair of the borough’s...

Five Camden students made a trip of a lifetime to Japan as part of Camden’s friendship agreement with Kagoshima prefecture. The sixth-formers were all selected to join the week-long trip in October as guests of the Mayor of Camden after writing an essay on Japanese culture. They stayed with Japanese families, met the Governor of Kagoshima and visited the museum which tells the story of...

Young people, community leaders, professionals and residents expressed their determination to work together to prevent more deaths on the streets at an event to mark one year since Camden’s Youth Safety Taskforce Report was published. The meeting in Kentish Town on 19 September, which was attended by over 100 people, featured presentations and stalls showcasing important work being done to...

Young people and families celebrated the 'grand opening' of the new Netherwood Youth and Family Hub, in Kilburn, on 16 July 2019. Activities at the launch event included DJ workshops, games, arts and crafts, food and refreshments and a ribbon-cutting by the Mayor of Camden, Councillor Maryam Eslamdoust (pictured above), to officially open the centre, which has a garden, kitchen, gym, games...