Community action/Camden

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Camden.

News

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Camden Think & Do, "Create a community ecosystem that is resilient and responsive to climate and social injustice. Find and implement creative solutions to challenges identified at a community level and respond to them collectively."
• Green Camden information from camden.gov.uk
• Transition Belsize
• Transition Dartmouth Park
• Transition Kentish Town
• Transition Tufnell Park
• Camden Friends of the Earth, added 17:24, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Camden video

UK and international events

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

Community involvement

Alternative Camden

Communities online

Kings Cross Environment

Food activism

• Cooperation Kentish Town on facebook

The Calthorpe Project - Kentish Town City Farm - Kings Cross Skip Garden - The People's Supermarket

Community energy

Video archive

• Community Solar Panel Installation, Joju Solar and Joju Charging, Mar 27, 2017, on youtube.com

Social inclusion

Camden Town Shed

Community resources

• Camden Collective, registered charity supporting start-up businesses by providing free workspace in vacant buildings, added 17:49, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
• Kentish Town Library of Things, added 21:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
• Castlehaven Community Association

Visions

• We Make Camden, "In March 2022, we published We Make Camden – our refreshed vision for the future of Camden. It sets out what we want to collectively achieve and lead together and was developed following conversations with residents, partners and community leaders." added 17:55, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
• Visioning Camden 2030, wordpress.com, added 15:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC), "An excellent example of community-led visioning for the future by @tkentishtown, @thinkdocamden, with poems, projects, illustrations from citizens young & old. Embodies the "from what is to what if" call from @robintransition" @noelito
• Camden 2025
• Drummond Street Neighbourhood Vision, Oct 21, 2019, Press release, medium.com
• Euston Town Cultural Strategy was developed in collaboration with Camden Council Arts Dept and MTArt Agency, and displays a new commitment to building an inclusive and meaningful cultural scene. The representative Culture Group will be one forum used to consult on the development of the Drummond Street Neighbourhood Vision...from Press release above

Arts, sport and culture

GoodGym Camden

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

• Fixing Factory, Camden, community repair hub, regular opening times, added 15:59, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
• Food Loop comunity-led food waste recycling project running on Maiden Lane Estate. The aim of Food Loop is to capture the value of the food waste on the estate in order to generate enough income to pay local residents to run and manage the whole system.

Community currencies activism

Camden Shares

Climate action

• Citizens' Assembly on the climate crisis, camden.gov.uk. Camden Citizens' Assembly held in July 2019. The Assembly proposals will inform a new Climate Action Plan for Camden to be published in 2020.
• Camden Climate Change Alliance

Sustainable transport activism

• Camden Green Loop, camdentownunlimited.com, "neighbourhood strategy spanning Camden Town, Euston and Kings Cross which has beautiful public spaces and permeability at its heart." Celebrating assets but also a platform to explore opportunities for improvements. "Camden Town Unlimited works with Euston Town, Camden Collective and the Camden Highline as part of a comprehensive improvement programme for Camden."
• Camden Green Loop, printed and interactive digital map from footways.london, added 17:42, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
• Euston Green Link is a walking route between Euston Station and Regents Park via Drummond Street, devised as a project by Euston Town. It aims to encourage healthier travel choices, by promoting a lower-exposure walking route, the use of Regents Park by locals and to drive footfall to Drummond Street. The project demonstrates an overall branding scheme which has been created by Bolter Design for the neighbourhood, and interventions so far include large planters, a green wall, a pocket park and branded hoardings...PRESS RELEASE: Drummond Street Neighbourhood Vision, medium.com, Oct 21, 2019.
• wikipedia:Regent's Canal

Urban sustainability

• Euston Town, elected by businesses to enhance Euston.  Business improvement district, set up in 2016 to represent the interests of businesses particularly in the context of HS2 and the area’s regeneration. Responding to its members concerns, projects in the past three years have focused on the future of Euston, the neighbourhood’s identity and community, and the public realm, environment and air quality. Euston Town endeavors to apply for Mayor of London and central government funding to achieve an ambitious vision for Euston and its communities, establishing them a firm place in the major regeneration it faces...PRESS RELEASE: Drummond Street Neighbourhood Vision, medium.com, Oct 21, 2019

Education for sustainability

• Global Generation

Open spaces

The Camden Highline will turn a 1.2km stretch of disused railway, formerly part of the North London Railway, into a new elevated park and walking route. The current planning submission is for the first section of the project, from Camden Gardens to Royal College Street. Two subsequent sections will run from Royal College Street to Camley Street, and Camley Street to York Way. Camden Highline is the registered charity responsible for the delivery and operation of the Camden Highline Park, along with a broad coalition of stakeholders. Timelines set the first section of the Camden Highline to open in 2025. Camden Highline...Press Release – 20 January 2023, camdenhighline.com

About Camden

Past events

From Wikipedia:London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden ( ) is a borough in Inner London, England. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies 1.4 mi (2.3 km) north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the former metropolitan boroughs of Holborn, St Pancras and Hampstead.

To the south it shares with the City of Westminster parts of the West End, where it also borders the City of London. The cultural and commercial land uses in the south contrast with the bustling mixed-use districts such as Camden Town and Kentish Town in the centre and leafy residential areas around Hampstead Heath in the north. Well known attractions include The British Museum, The British Library, the famous views from Parliament Hill, the London Zoo, the BT Tower, the converted Roundhouse entertainment venue, and Camden Market. As of 2021 it has a population of 210,136. Politically, its local authority is Camden London Borough Council.

Camden archive

News archive

• When small means strong: Community power at Cooperation Town, thenews.coop (Mar 29, 2022)
• Camden calls for sites that could deliver Community led housing, communityledhousing.london (Feb 02, 2022)

Video archive

• Knowledge Quarter Launch, 2014, youtube.com