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We are delighted to contribute to We Make Camden’s plans for 2030

The team from Highgate Newtown Community Partners, who will be managing the new building opening later this year, participated in a recent planning event along with Baz, a Trustee from Waitrose who is on secondment with us to help with overall planning. Both Eiran, the HNCP manager, and Sayed our Deputy Manager were present. We were joined at the event by the deputy leader of Camden Council; Georgina Gould.

I am very proud that we have secured Home Office funding for our new deputy manager who has moved into the new flats. Sayed is a former Afghan refugee who will work with our new community of 160 people to ensure there is a positive and inclusive environment for all. 

Andrew Sanalitro – Director HNCP

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Kentish Town Community Centre. Working together with Highgate Newtown Community Partners the partnership will extend services available to the community.

Stating in January 2024 there will be a new stay and play service for under 5’s to help young families develop and thrive.

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As Christmas approaches, we’re looking forward to a well-earned rest… but we’re not going to open our presents until the new year, when the wraps will come off Highgate Newtown Community Partners new centre : a community-led, mixed-use development designed for Camden Council.

Highgate Newtown Community Partners are working with Camden Council to bring a fabulous new centre opening Spring 2024.

Beverley
Local Resident for 60 years
(Proud to be a Camden Resident)

“We want to make our community better – where everyone has a chance to succeed and nobody gets left behind.”

When I was offered the chance to join the Highgate Newtown Community Partnership, I instantly felt we were the perfect school to lead this. We are delighted to offer our pupils and the local community free after-school and holiday education and skills. It is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to local people in a time of hardship and financial crisis for many families. In 1860 the school was created from a desire to offer education to poor local children who could not afford it.

Since then, the school has always had a community outlook. A focus on charity is at the heart of our ethos; after The First World War and the terrible influenza, it was the Sisters from LSU who raised the money to reunite refugees from Belgium with their families. The school hosted members of the RAF and dozens of refugees during The Second World War.
The basement of LSU became a regular air-raid shelter for local people. It is an honour to be able to help our own students and the people who live nearby, offering them a safe and warm space to read, learn, eat and have fun.

What will the highgate newtown Community at LSU do?
Our aim is to empower people through building their skills in a variety of subjects and hobbies. As a school with a strong science technology and mathematics programme, and with an excellent tradition for the performing arts including drama and music, we are ambitious about sharing the talents of our staff and offering employment to local expert staff as well. Some of the subjects include: Business, Maths, english, Drama, Martial Arts and Yoga.
We offer ‘wrap-around’ care for our students, from 7.30am until 7.00pm, with a free breakfast for all. This not only gives parents the chance to do a full day’s work, it means they can feel reassured that their children are supervised and well looked after, with revision classes, tuition, study facilities and many clubs on offer, led by our expert staff.
Our partnership with HNCP will build on this and create opportunities to open up our facilities to the wider community. We are launching our partnership with a bake off event with Channing School on 10th October, and we are busy planning a Christmas lunch for the elderly on 7th December.

What are our long-term goals?
We are excited about creating a new summer camp and further education support, such as Saturday family learning activities, where our facilities can be utilised and families can cook, make and create together.

Do you need to be Catholic to take part?
We help all people grow, no matter what their beliefs are. We offer school places to people of all faiths – or none. At LSU we celebrate different religious festivals, as well as having a multi-faith prayer room that is used every day. It is the values we teach – to care for each other and the earth, to focus on equality and charity, which is at the heart of our ethos.

I look forward to seeing you very soon!
Please email general@lsu.camden.sch.uk for more information, or visit our website to learn more about our facilities and school www.lasainteunion.org.uk.

Mrs Sophie Fegan, Headteacher

Think you know Hampstead? Think again…

The cost-of-living crisis affects everyone in different ways. Together we’re determined to make Hampstead more inclusive; a place where everyone has a chance to succeed, nobody gets left behind and everybody can participate.

That’s why we are starting two new initiatives:

Thank you to everyone who made this year’s HNCP Summer Camp such a fantastic success for the third year in a row.

The fun and educational summer camp, hosted by Channing School, welcomed around 40 children from eight local primary schools. The children enjoyed a variety of activities, including:

• Morning workshops led by experienced teachers from Channing Junior School and Brookfield Primary School
• Dodgeball, rounders, laser tag, drama, and arts and crafts, all provided by Active Day Camps
• ‘The Olympics’: which showcased the new friendships they had made plus they enjoyed competing with each other to win medals!

One of the highlights was the animation course, led by a teacher from Brookfield Primary School. The children also took part in: ‘money maths’ lessons where they practised life skills such as budgeting to plan a party; and literacy lessons based around a Sci-Fi book which gave them the opportunity to practise their writing skills in exciting and purposeful ways.

Our lunch clubs and Stay and Play sessions will be closed for this month.

We are sorry for any inconvenience, we start back September.

Our summer camp is running but all places are fully booked.

Many thanks,
The HNCP Team

I am very proud to present this Partnerships booklet which outlines the partnership work we have been involved in this year.

Channing School has a long standing tradition of community service and it is embedded in our Unitarian ethos. Over the past 18 months, with our partnership with HNCP, we have been building strong relationships with our local community and making a positive impact. Together with HNCP, we are working to create a more supportive and inclusive community for everyone.
Our Education + programme, in collaboration with HNCP, St. Aloysius’ College and Brookfield Primary School, involves sustainable, mutually beneficial links with local schools offering academic enrichment and cultural capital for those who would otherwise not have access to it.

Without the support from colleagues as well as our partners, we would not be able to run these clubs/activities. We are grateful to our students whose dedication, interest and enthusiasm has ensured the success of our clubs and wider work in the community.

Ms J Kung
Direct of HE and Partnerships

Highgate Newtown Community Partners annual report and financial statements for the period ended 31 december 2022.