Camden New Town Community Festival "Coming Together"

The Pitch

Focus Areas

Delivery plan

Budget breakdown

Beneficiaries

2,000 people

Who will benefit

Expected impact

CNTCF’s voluntary, resident-led Festival brings together a network of 45 schools, coops, tenants, businesses, youth, cultural, pensioners’, faith and community groups empowering residents and groups to develop programme events including displays, stalls and performances reflecting emerging interests and concerns. Our outdoors location makes us visible and easier to engage at whatever level each visitor feels comfortable. Feedback from previous festival participants help inform our evolving and inclusive repertoire and helps engage residents from a diversity of ages, English language skills and socio-economic backgrounds to knit together a safe, healthier and more open neighbourhood.

Track record

The Festival(CNTCF) was established in 1998 running its first community event in 1999. Each year its programme changes to reflect community need. Last year we developed the FIX & Mend Project focussing on reducing waste through local partnerships. Seven workshops from Electrical repair; Woodwork, Clay and natural material; Dr Bike: Clothing repairs; Food effects on our health & Herbal. Participants: 515 people actively engaged with the seven workshops. Ages varied, with some attending as family groups. In developing CNTCF’s ‘Fix, Make and Mend Project!’ we sought to raise awareness about strategies for extending the lifetime of household objects and food while making best use of natural materials in our locality including herbs for health and wellbeing. Towards this end, we partnered with a diversity of local organisations, who ran workshops from 12 noon – 6 pm. • ‘I enjoyed making pasta from scratch!’ •‘Flipping the pancakes was so much fun…’ • made my first cushion cover