HCA News

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

Last week we got festive and joined in with the fun at the Tybalds Estate Winter Fayre. The fayre was a double celebration of both... Read More

David is 19 years old and from Prague and came on a 2-week work placement to Millman Street Community Centre organised by ADC College.  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

  Holborn Gymnastics Club was excited to receive a phone call from the BBC this Autumn, inviting them to film as many forward rolls or... Read More

We had over 100 people come to our second Fun Palace this Sunday at Conway Hall in partnership with a host of organisations. Fun Palaces... Read More

Since August HCA has been hosting Ben Uri Gallery for their Art in Residence class every Friday at Millman Street for the over 65’s.  Our... 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 held a successful term of free women only yoga sessions at Bedford House.

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.

We held a successful AGM in November, with over 50 local people in attendance. Guests also got to look at our new Annual Report 2017-2018.

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.

Our over 55's are putting on their dancing shoes and getting fit with our salsa classes.

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.

We held our first fun palace and it was a big success!

Older people take part in Patterns and Poetry workshop at our Millman Street Centre

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.

Young carers from Camden come to 1A Arts to learn about film making and create their own mini films

Fun in the sun at the Calthorpe Community Project's Art in the Garden event

A unique creative workshop exploring science through art and poetry with local children.

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.