Camden Council is consulting with residents, businesses and organisations to assist with its bid to become the London Borough of Culture in 2019/20. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched the London Borough of Culture programme, inviting all London boroughs to bid for £1.1 million in funding to deliver high quality cultural activities.
Knowledge Quarter partner Pan Macmillan have some exciting job opportunities within its Communications department. Pan Macmillan is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, with imprints including Macmillan, Mantle, Pan, Picador, Bluebird, Bello, Macmillan Children’s Books and Macmillan Digital Audio. Pan Macmillan is part of the worldwide Macmillan Publishing Group and have recently been awarded Publisher of the Year for the second time in three years.
Home-Start Camden is a local charity that works to support families across the borough. Based in Kentish Town, the organisation has been running for over 20 years, helping local residents with young children when they are going through a difficult time. Each year we support around 120 families and train over 45 volunteers. The key to our success is providing a listening ear, non-judgemental support and carefully matching families with volunteers. A child’s early years are critical, and through our work we help them to have the best start in life.
Central Saint Martins (CSM) are welcoming their new cohort of students on Friday 8th and Friday 29th September and would like to invite Knowledge Quarter partners to be part of their Welcome day activities! This is an opportunity for partners to introduce themselves to CSM’s new students, free of charge.
Knowledge Quarter partner The Foundling Museum is looking for a Marketing & Communications Assistant to provide high quality support to their Communications Manager in marketing and publicising the Museum, its exhibitions and activities.
The Camden Business Awards is returning again this year to celebrate Camden as the best place to do business in London. In line with the Camden Plan, the awards highlight the vital role that businesses play in securing sustainable economic growth in the borough.
The Knowledge Quarter (KQ) welcomes a further eight organisation as partners, bringing the total number of organisations involved in the partnership to 87. The KQ is delighted to welcome EIT Digital, London School of Business and Management, McCaldin Arts, Pan Macmillan, The Reading Agency, Sadler’s Wells, Universal Music and Warwick in London.
Support Somers Town ‘Make Chalton Street Great’ campaign. Chalton St. Market has been part of the fabric of Somers Town for over 100 years but is more than just a market. It is home to an ambitious engaged and diverse community – a community that want their local market to succeed and grow.
Do you like contemporary music? Why not sign up to help out at Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival as a front of house volunteer. You get to see lots of work for free and in return you need to be conscientious, committed and willing to help audiences have the very best time.
Somers Town (Camden) based Elephant Path launches an experimental enterprise that offers micro-services to tackle office stress and economic inactivity. During their working life, employees spend on average a third of their waking hours at their desk. This explains why domestic duties also have to be performed here – which adds to stress at work. Research has shown that office-based workers spend on average 1hour 20minutes of their 8h working day organising personal activities.