News - Camden Rise

Children, young people and residents joined Little Amal in Camden for a festival of welcome, celebration and friendship over the weekend. Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child carries a message of hope for displaced people everywhere, especially children who have been separated from their families.  There was a range of exciting activities for...

Camden Council is working with the Royal Free Hospital and Project Choice to run a Supported Internship programme for young people aged 16 to 24 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.  See our short video case study, featuring Project Choice intern Sam Innes talking about how his Supported Internship helped him to...

Female students from three Camden secondary schools got to grips with virtual reality building modelling, creating a dream workspace and design ideas for Euston at a construction and design event at King's Cross Construction Skills Centre during National Apprenticeship Week. Forty-five female students from Parliament Hill School, La Sainte Union Catholic School and Maria Fidelis Catholic...

icandance is a creative, therapeutic community that celebrates and empowers disabled children and young people, aged four to 25, through dance and performance. Their weekly programmes - on Thursdays and Saturdays - provide dance accessibility for all, which enriches lives, connects communities, and celebrates difference. Each child participating is unable to...

What does it mean to be a young carer? And if you are a young carer or a child in your family is taking on more of a mum or dad role, where can you turn for help and support? Kayla*, an 11-year-old from Camden, found herself taking on more and more responsibility for her nine-year-old autistic brother, as well as supporting her mum, who is a lone parent. Kayla said: “My younger brother has...