News - Camden Rise

For the first time since 2019, Duke of Edinburgh's Award Gold participants who completed all five sections of the Gold award were invited to Buckingham Palace for a formal award ceremony on Monday (16 May). Autumn Elbourn, Camden Council's DofE Award Manager, said: "We had a really special day celebrating our Camden Gold participants at the Buckingham Palace gardens on Monday. "It was great...

A local barber shop has teamed up with the Council’s youth service and local voluntary youth groups to offer free haircuts to young people.   Keen to support the community following the recent COVID-19 lockdowns and the current cost-of-living crisis, The Gentleman’s Barber, in New Oxford Street, set aside Sunday 15 May to offer their services to young people aged 11 to 19.   Camden...

Real Talk, Camden’s topical debate for young people aged 16 to 21, is back for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (9 to 15 May). This face-to-face event - Real Talk: Life After Lockdown - is taking place in Camden's Council Chamber at the Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1BD on Wednesday 11 May, 5.30 to 7pm (arrive from 5pm onwards). Free food will be...

The Night of 10,000m PBs – a sporting event like no other – returns to London on Saturday 14 May with entry free to spectators. Now in its eighth year, the Night of 10,000m PBs – held at Parliament Hill track in Highgate – is the most exciting and innovative track meeting in Europe, bringing together runners and spectators like no event before. Spectators can watch the action...

Camden secondary school students have gained business diplomas with King's Cross-based company Ted Baker as part of a new programme, which took place over two days of the Easter holiday. The leading fashion and lifestyle brand has been working with local schools as part of the Camden STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) initiative, run by the Council and...