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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...

As I arrived at the Ted Baker HQ in Camley Street, King's Cross, I was stunned - the inside was beautiful! It looked as if everyone there was family as well. The interior design made the building feel like a home, not to mention the tasty mint water! After the tour, we were brought back into one of the training rooms and got placed in teams in which we would design our trainers, followed by the...

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...