Post Tagged with: "Community Building"

• Euston “Restrain the train” fun day against HS2 (in pictures)

  Saturday’s Restrain the Train event brought the local community and traders together in their opposition to High Speed Rail 2 which will see the lives of thousands of Camden citizens’ lives severely effected. As developments are halted, housing is blighted or businesses – like the fantastic Drummond Street curry houses […]

   

• Video: Bassett Street Community Garden

  Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]

   

• For a Better Archway

  Kate Calvert of the Better Archway Forum explains what they are doing to improve their community. The Better Archway Forum is a community group started in 2006 in response to a plan to rebuild Archway, funded by a large supermarket. The masterplanners on the job were definitely not the A […]

   

• Report: UCL inter-faith week: Lessons of the London riots

  Tonight’s meeting at UCL as part of their inter-faith week explored lessons to be learned from the London riots and how we build stronger communities. Jim Jepps reports. The riots in August have caused a lot of soul searching in London and no doubt there will be a great deal […]