Millman Street gets a Makeover!
As you may know the Millman Street Community Centre has been getting spruced up by volunteers from various organisations. It is important to us that attendees at our centres are welcomed into a warm, bright, clean and safe environment. To make sure our space continues to be that environment for attendees, we recently started […]
Active for Life 60+
Holborn Community Association is part of Camden Council’s Active for Life 60+ Campaign. This 12 week initiative is to help older adults get more active and make positive changes for a healthier lifestyle. Have a look at the list of activities we have for older adults here. More information about Active for Life here Our […]
Celebrating Volunteer Week At HCA
What can volunteering at Holborn Community Association look like in practice? Between January and March, we were thrilled to welcome Claudia to the HCA arts supporting the team. As a Masters in Creative Health student at UCL, Claudia immersed herself in our community – supporting our Memory Cafe, Pottery classes, Youth Arts, and Sunday Socials, […]
Chainalysis Volunteers at Millman Street
We were delighted to welcome Chainalysis who joined us at Holborn Community Association recently. It was a joy to have their energy and support behind our ‘New Life for Our Centre’ initiative. They painted the hand rails outside the Millman Street centre for us, as […]
Nominations for LSE Awards!
We’re proud to announce that Holborn Community Association have been nominated and shortlisted for the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) Voluntary Organisation of the Year Award 2026! Additionally one of our regular Befriending Doorstep Help Volunteers, Toby, has been nominated for LSE Volunteer of the Year. The LSE Volunteer Awards celebrate […]
Art Exhibition Comes To An End
The ‘Our Village’ Arts Exhibiton has come to an end. Holborn Community came together to create wonderful works of art. . From Thursday 26th March – 1st April we had: Sunday Socials, Creative Communications Arts, Family Arts, Arts & Wellbeing and of course our Village Parade. Work from people who live or work around […]
A Special Invitation to Downing Street!
One of our staff members at HCA got a special invitation to visit No. 10 Downing Street! Many of you will know Mohima as a familiar face at HCA on Front of House and now our Operations Coordinator. She was recently nominated by two of Camden Council’s Councillors; Julian Fulbrook and Awale Olad to […]
My Love Letter to Holborn – Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood
As part of the next phase of the Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood project, I joined The Place Bureau, working on behalf of Camden Council, at the Holborn library on Theobalds Road. We spoke about what makes Holborn great, what we love about it and what we would change. We walked around Theobalds Road, discussing […]
Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood Workshop
The Place Bureau on behalf of Camden Council are holding workshops on certain areas in Holborn as the next phase of the Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood project. The most recent workshop was in the Holborn Library on Theobalds Road. Local residents attended, talking about their memories and stories around Theobalds Road. Participants talked […]
Millman Street Garden Bed Revamp
Chris Oakley has been working on the community garden in the Millman Street Centre to give it some more life. He and his team have made a new raised garden bed constructed from recycled wood. “The heavy rains in December finally caused an old wooden raised bed in the Community garden to collapse. So, we […]