News - Camden Rise

We’re looking for candidates to stand in the next Youth MP Elections. Camden’s Youth MP and two Deputy Youth MPs are the voice for the borough’s young people and play a key role in important decision-making and campaigning on key issues, ranging from youth safety to climate change. Young people across Camden go to the polls in March to decide who will represent them for the next two years –...

Hello, I'm a young person who lives and studies in Camden. On World Mental Health Day (10 October), I've been asked to write for Camden Rise about mental health issues, using my own personal experiences and observations. It's good to talk Unfortunately, a lot of young people in Camden have trouble talking about mental health issues, which can make them worse. To help combat this, more young...

Camden Youth Safety Week, which will be held from 10 February 2020, will be a call to action for everyone in Camden. We believe that keeping young people safe is everyone’s business. As part of this work we are launching our first Camden Youth Safety Week Multi-Media Competition.   Who can enter? The competition is open to children and young people in primary and secondary schools (more...

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...

The Future Changemakers is a youth-led panel created by charity Camden Giving, as a response to the fatal stabbings of two young men in the borough in 2018. Young people on the panel were given the opportunity to decide for themselves how they would like to use the funding to help tackle youth crime in Camden. They decided to fund youth programmes that met their objectives of educating young...