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The Highgate Newtown Community Partners team really know how to have fun!

Donkey rides, animal petting, soft play, decorative stencils, a tombola, food, ice-cream, music and sunshine. Everything came together to make the end of term summer party at St Michael’s church a great success with many under 5’s parents and carers there to enjoy the fun. 

Don’t forget that this event may have been an ‘end of term’ but also marks the start of out summer holidays scheme. Find out more.

SOMETIMES things do not go fully to plan, and I would like to say sorry on behalf of Highgate Newtown Community Partners to residents for the issues this has caused.

We have been working extremely hard with Camden Council officers each week to create a fabulous new centre for you all.

Over the last two years we have raised over 400k from private trusts to fit out the building. This week alone Mercers a grant trust approved 100k for new services and private donations continue to come in.

The new Centre will have an Italian Restaurant which will also offer work placements to young people and those with disabilities, it will offer affordable food and a place for people alone to have company in the evenings.

Loneliness is a real issue for people local who want a safe place to walk to, and to feel part of the wider community. The hairdressers nail bar will allow people to have haircuts which improves mental health for people on low incomes.

The new pottery complex and cook school will support all ages. The low cost laundry will have fully commercial machines for those larger items.

A range of services for community wellbeing are being created for our community.

Highgate Newtown Community Partners now works across Camden providing free children’s services and lunch clubs, also much needed services for young people as in adverts in paper today.

Camden Council and HNCP do not go to work each day not to try and make our community better and where no person gets left behind, we are creating services you all ask for and care about.

I am truly sorry for the delay in the building opening, and I fully support Camden’s ambitions with us to create a world class Centre.

Many thanks,

Andrew Sanalitro, 

Director Highgate Newtown Community Partners

3rd July 2024

Under 5 ‘stay ’n play’ session every Tuesday in the Kings Cross area. 

A structured children’s music programme that encourages children, parents and carers to explore, learn and play together in a fun and interactive musical environment.

Mabel’s Monsters uses a range of percussion instruments to help explore basic rhythms with singing, dancing, mini-monsters, parachute play and not forgetting bubble time. The programme has a strong theatrical feel, encouraging children to explore their musical, creative, physical and social skills.

Where: 

Pancras Square Library N1C 4AG

When:

10am to 11am every Tuesday in term time.

Contact:

Nadine Reynolds: 07415 200 614 Email: Nadinehncc@outlook.com

Are you looking to start your own hair and nails salon, or relocate in N19?
Hairdressers and Nails space in a brand-new build RENT FREE

Our fabulous new centre will open late spring, and we are offering 12 months rent free, which includes utility bills and council tax covered to help get you started.
You would be a self employed community minded team able to provide affordable haircuts for all ages in a unisex space. We also welcome people to offer a mini nail bar.

We know that when people feel good about how they look this improves mental health, well being, and life chances.

You should be able to work with customers in a multi cultural setting.

You may already have a space and are looking to relocate.

This is a fantastic opportunity in a brand-new build. For more information
Email: Andrews@hncp.org.uk

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.