Our Befriending Scheme matches a local volunteer with an isolated older person to spend time together on a weekly basis. Back in the Autumn, we... Read More
Our Befriending Scheme matches a local volunteer with an isolated older person to spend time together on a weekly basis. Back in the Autumn, we... Read More
In November HCA’s Taekwondo Club took a trip up to Manchester to compete in the Taekwondo British Champions Competition. Led by HCA’s Taekwondo tutor... Read More
We are delighted to present to you ‘Londoners’, a short documentary film produced by talented young filmmaking team REV0LUTI0N PR0DUCTI0NS on our Summer Film Project... Read More
Our penultimate Food Explorer saw chef San from Thenga Cafe make Pakoras at Millman Street, turning it into an informal birthday celebration for a special... Read More
Last year at Millman Street local architectural firm Stantec hosted a reminiscence event for local people to attend, as part of their Stantec in the Community Week.... Read More
In October, Hazel our Community Arts Manager was joined by special guest, Adrian Lee. Adrian is the Studio Manager at Cockpit Arts Holborn. Cockpit Arts... Read More
Holborn Community Association has been inviting our local community to cook, eat and share food together as part of our ‘Food Explorers’ workshops, celebrating the... Read More
This September we welcomed a new batch of volunteers to our Befriending Scheme supported by the London freemasons. We asked new recruit Carolina to share her... Read More
We asked our new volunteers from Queen’s College Amber and Eve to tell us about their experience in our pottery class for children aged 6-12... Read More
Our garden plays an important role at Millman Street, giving our members the space to be outside in nature and keep active. With thanks to... Read More
Our Gymnastic classes have been running for over 30 years, helping your child to develop in a welcoming and happy environment. It’s also a great place... Read More
This Autumn Millman Street is hosting Akademi, who are running 24 weeks of dance and movement workshops inspired by South Asian dance forms including Kathak and... Read More
HCA this Autumn is launching our #activeHCA theme, showcasing the brilliant ‘active activities’ we run and celebrating the amazing people who take part in them. ... Read More
On Friday 23 August the sun came out for Millman’s Street Summer BBQ. Over 68 people attended the event, including volunteers from rewardStyle who came... Read More
HCA has a long history of running summer holiday programmes for children, young people and families. This summer we wanted to take advantage of the... Read More
Our new Wednesday morning art group for carers got off to a great start last term. From painting to sketching, and even applying transfers, we... Read More
In July HCA attended the Camden Mela taking place at Coram’s Field. For this annual event staff members, Hanif and Kate headed down to host an... Read More
This summer Millman Street Community Centre has been keeping active and staying cool with a number of social activities for its older-people members. At the... Read More
Just before the break up of term our Holborn Gymnastics Club entered the @ConnectSport Stronger Communities through Sport campaign, part of the Mayor of London’s... Read More
Last week our arts team started the summer holidays by heading outside to run four days of Arts in the Park activities for local families. Part... Read More
Lonely and isolated older people in Holborn, Covent Garden and Bloomsbury will be helped back into community life, thanks to a grant of £77,827 from... Read More
Last week we kicked off the Summer Holidays with an exciting STEM Robot Building event in partnership with Give2Get and Pagerduty. With 50 volunteers in... Read More
Jane hosts (alongside Gloria) a weekly knitting group at Millman Street on a Wednesday morning, plus doing some post-crocheting Ping Pong playing! Here she shares... Read More
Our ReGeneration Vloggers helped with the clear out of Bedford House this month, by breaking things! The group of young pople decided that since we... Read More
The Millman Street Singers runs every week from HCA’s Millman Street Community Centre. Started eleven years ago, the group consists of Millman Street members and... Read More
We are wrapping up our #HCAVolunteers Month with another interview from our Befriending Scheme. The programme matches a local volunteer with an isolated older person... Read More
Young person Leah has been part of our Holborn Gymnastics Club since she was six years old and has been volunteering at our gymnastics club... Read More
UCL student Lydia has been volunteering as a befriender since May 2017. She tells us about her friendship with her befriending match Maria, their shared... Read More
Over half term we embarked on a final farewell to Bedford House through our mini Create, Make, Explore festival. We had an amazing week with... Read More
Gloria has recently celebrated her 80th birthday and volunteers at Millman Street Community Centre for two days a week. Prior to retiring she had a... Read More
Ziyi pronounced ‘Zi’ is studying her masters at UCL in Economics and Business. Originally from Hangzhou in China, London has been her home since last... Read More
Stephanie is a local UCL student and found out about our volunteering opportunities at HCA via the UCL Student Union website. “I am a volunteer... Read More
Sue, a previous employee at Millman Street (and long-time supporter of HCA) has been volunteering her time in the computer room for over a decade.... Read More
HCA is celebrating the achievements of our volunteers this year for national Volunteer’s Week hosted by @NCVO. Volunteers Week is a chance to celebrate... Read More
Written by young person Mia This May HCA hosted their first Regeneration Vloggers session inside Bedford House with a group of young people. HCA is... Read More
We had our first Sport Meets Art session at the beautiful Calthorpe Project last week. We had a lovely time making animations on the decking,... Read More
Mishcon de Reya take over the pottery studio Last Thursday we welcomed a group of fledgeling potters from Mishcon de Reya to our pottery studio,... Read More
In the news at HCA we chat to our yoga and meditation teacher Julia from The Happy Place, who is on a mission to “spread benefits of mindfulness and meditation to the people of all ages”.
To celebrate the launch of our summer 2019 peer intern post at 1A Arts, we look back at the experience of Bryony who successfully took on the role last year.
This February our Sunday Social for the 60+ gave 8 members of our local community the opportunity to create their very own short animated film in under two hours. Titled "This is Ball" the video uses basic animation techniques to create a day in the life of a ball with wonderful results.
As part of our Digital Media Project, 1A Arts took a group of 11-16 yr olds to see the "Good Grief Charlie Brown!" exhibition at Somerset House. They also took part in an exciting workshop with one of the professional artists in the exhibition.
This February 1A Arts hosted talented young person Noor for a week's work experience. Here she shares her experience of her week at HCA, including twitter takeovers, camera skill sharing with our older person, a trip to Somerset House and much more!
Once a fortnight our Older People’s Resource Centre at Millman Street hosts mobile hairdresser Derek Roman who gives a wash, cut and colour to many of our older members.
This February Holborn Community Association hosted their second successful Jewellery Making workshop at 1A Arts. The ticketed event saw attendees get creative learning a silver cut out and polish technique. Book your spot onto our next creative masterclass and help support creative young people at 1A Arts.
"It's hard not to be happy here!" UCL photojournalist Anoushka Gandhi writes about our children's pottery sessions at 1A Arts with the help of some wonderful UCL volunteers.
We are excited to announce that AMATA VALE, a short film produced by Reflekta films on our Summer Film project 2018, has been selected for this months' Lift-off Sessions 2019. This is an online event that showcases amazing indie films - after 2 rounds of voting the winning film will be shown at Pinewood Studios.
Holborn Community Association is delighted to be the new charity partner of law firm Mishcon de Reya. Founded in 1937, the firm is also based locally in Holborn.
Holborn Community Association has been working in partnership with Tybalds Estate and 3 fantastic student volunteers to host twelve weekly STEM classes for children aged 8-12 years.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Millman Street thanks to our festive corporate volunteers from Lloyds who spruced up our space with tinsel and gingerbread.
A group of over 60's have been getting creative with Pots and Poems at 1A Arts thanks to funding from Ageing Better in Camden and the Big Lottery Fund.
This Autumn, at our Millman's Street Resource Centre, local architectural firm Stantec hosted a reminiscence event for local people to attend, as part of their Stantec in the Community Week.
Young filmmakers Reflekta Films worked with 1A Arts Holborn Community Association on their Summer Film Project 2018. In partnership with Sir John Soane's Museum.
Our annual Open Studios event, part of Children's Art Week, was held on Thursday 14th June. We had a day of activities, with sensory storytelling for nursery children in the morning and Open Studios for older children and adults in the afternoon.
We had a huge turnout for our Under 5’s Halloween Event. Guests enjoyed spooky bats and pumpkin decorating, a jumble sale and party music.
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