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Cookery School

Come and join our fun, stress-free and informative cookery classes. We’re partnering with local schools and organisations to offer full-day and half-day classes full of practical, “hands-on” learning.

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro or somewhere in between, our cookery classes are the perfect indoor activity for friends or family groups, birthday events or team-building outings. Not only that, but our space is adapted for people with disabilities – so all can join.

Schools are welcome to apply to incorporate our daytime classes into their school timetable.

For more information, get in touch.

When and Where

Opening Spring 2024
Highgate Newtown Community Centre

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Free Place Scheme

Everyone should be welcome at our all-ages services, and our free place scheme helps make it easier for lower income families to attend – specifically, for Education Plus, Clay Time, Cookery School, sports and 55 Plus.

A panel including representatives from local schools and social services will review applications for free spaces in our programmes each month, giving priority to families struggling to make ends meet and those living in rented housing.

We can only offer free places if people who can afford to pay for services pay into this pot. This means those that can buy another place for a person will be asked to do so.

If you would like to apply for a free place, please fill in this form.

Opening Spring 2024

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Unisex Hairdressers and Nail Bar

Every person should have access to affordable haircuts. It’s about building good mental health and not being excluded from everyday life.

Drop in, sit down, have a coffee, and be with people in a friendly, relaxed environment. The goal is that you come away feeling refreshed and valued.

Our new salon will open with the new building in Spring 2023. Keep an eye on our What’s On page for more details.

When and Where

Opening Spring 2024

Highgate Newtown Community Centre

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Laundry

With the new building opening in spring 2024, we’re opening a laundry for people on low incomes. Our charges will be £3.00 a wash and £1.00 a 15-minute dry – less than half the price of other local laundries.

What we do
We supply eco-friendly washing products (Ecover and Simply Eco-Smart) to our customers, and we can refill Ecover laundry liquid, fabric softener and washing-up liquid containers.

Our large washing machines use less water and are faster and more energy-efficient than domestic machines. And because our water is softened (non-chemically) which reduces wear on the machinery, our machines work more efficiently and last longer.

On top of that, our mains supply is metered, and we have limiters fitted which reduce water wastage.

By supplying eco-friendly products, we reduce the amount of harmful pollutants that are put into the drains every day.

When and Where

Opening Spring 2024
Highgate Newtown Community Centre

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14 November 2023
Written By hncp

The Best Things Take Time

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

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.”

If you would like to find out more and support our fundraising for this fabulous new centre please email: andrew.s@hncp.org.uk

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11 October 2023
Written By hncp

A Wonderful opportunity for the LA Sainte Union Community

 

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

 

 

 

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20 September 2023
Written By hncp

Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel celebrates a new partnership with Highgate Newtown Community Partners

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:

SATURDAY CLUB STAY AND PLAY FOR UNDER-5s

Every Saturday* 10am – 11am FREE entry (donations welcome!)

Come and make friends with other parents and families! Bring along your kids for freeform play, healthy snacks, music, bubbles, and chat.
*Saturday Club will be closed on 23 Sept, 21 Oct and 11 Nov.

COMMUNITY TABLE LUNCH CLUB FOR ALL

Second Sunday of the month. Food served: 12.30 – 1.30pm
Suggested donation: £2.50

Do you find Sundays are sometimes dull and empty when many services and businesses are closed? Our monthly Community Table welcomes people of all faiths or without faith traditions to our monthly Community Table, offering a low-cost hot meal and good conversation.

For more information about these new activities, please email: socialaction@rosslynhillchapel.org.uk

In Hampstead, we are keen to provide services you care about and fill gaps for people facing financial hardship and loneliness. Working with Highgate Newtown Community Partners we’ll combine our networks to develop new ways of making our community better. Come and join in!

With thanks to Camden Council for grant funding and to Channing School for helping to make our new partnership happen. These services are expensive to run and maintain.
We welcome donations to our Social Action Fund: www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk/donate

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5 September 2023
Written By hncp

HNCP Summer Camp – A fantastic success for the third year in a row

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.

Thanks to the Channing catering and facilities teams, attendees enjoyed healthy snacks and lunches and all equipment was provided, so the children just needed to bring themselves and their imaginations!

Jennifer Kung, Channing Director of Partnerships and HE, commented “Camps like these are invaluable in boosting children’s self-esteem, confidence and academic progress, helping them develop a growth mindset and greater self-efficacy. Our Education + partnership with HNCP, Brookfield Primary School and St. Aloysius’ College is a key part of our work in the local community, creating a positive impact for local children and their families. But the photos from this year tell the real story…and we can’t wait to do it all again next year!”

“It helped me step out of my comfort zone” – Emanuella
“I came here with no friends and now I have loads” – Olivia

We are very grateful to John Lyon’s Charity and The Young Camden Foundation for their funding.

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19 July 2023
Written By hncp

Partners Services August Break

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

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6 July 2023
Written By hncp

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

Download Partnership Booklet