June/July 2024

Maiden Lane Community Centre and Camden square children have joined together to work with the AMAZING See through theatre company to create wonderful art pieces for the Camden New Town Community Festival parade. They are all having so much fun being creative and everyone is looking forward to showing off their work at the parade.
Look out for the Camden New Town Community Festival flyer on our website, and come along on the day to join in on the fun.
June 2024

Maiden Lane Community Nursery end of summer term trip to Freightliners City Farm. The Children experienced seeing the different farm animals. Pigs, geese, goats, rabbits etc they even got to stroke the Rabbits. We then visited the park after where the children ran around and enjoy the outdoor. The children had a great day so did the staff. 
June 2024
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Maiden Lane Community hosted a community meal for our older residents. We support a project called Meet & Grains run by local residents of Maiden Lane Estate.

They provided a warm hearty meal, we created an amazing atmosphere with music. This event will be held every 1st Saturday of the month, the next one is on Saturday 6th July, 1pm. 
'It was so nice to see my friends at this event and socialising. Food was great, thank you all. I will definitely be coming to the next one's as I don't see my friends enough."
May 2024

Girls warming up during the GIRLS GLOW IN MOTION Creative Dance project. The girls are working towards a live performance in July. Dance sessions are every Thursday 4-6.30pm.
May 2024

May half term was another great week. Green spaces joined us creating yet another nature green spaces project. The children got to explore our orchid. They looked at tree life, insects that live in our tree's. The children created some amazing art work on the day. 
May 2024

Physical - The children take part in pulling the large colorful elastic band, they use large movements and problem solve how to untangle the band
Snack Time - Personal social and Emotional- A healthy snack is provided, and the children are able to select their prefered snack. 
Water Play - The children are filling and emptying water from the cups using their hand and eye coordination. 
April 2024

The Family Fun Day on Saturday 20th April, 1pm - 4pm was a great success. Thank you all for coming we'll see you on our next event. There was something for all the family. 
"I wanted to take a moment to express our appreciation for today's family fun day. It was exceptionally well-organized, with a variety of activities for the children. My daughter had a wonderful time, and we were amazed at how quickly the day flew by—it was already 4 pm before we knew it! 
The atmosphere was fantastic, and everyone interacted with respect and kindness. We were pleasantly surprised that everything, including the pizza, was provided free of charge. 
Thank you for organising such a fantastic event. We are looking forward to the next family fun day!"
April 2024

Thank you again to the green city project for delivering a great workshop, how to make a wormery....
Our junior club had so much fun, it's a great hands-on project to teach children about composting, recycling and the environment, whilst making a home for their wiggly friends.
It was a whole lot of fun!!!!!
April 2024
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Girls having fun ‘Glowing’ on the Decks.  Never too young to start learning the art of DJing here at Maiden Lane
April 2024

The children's book of the month is 'The Gingerbread Man'.
The children have been reading the story and also took part in baking their own ginger breadman..
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February 2024
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Green city project attending our junior club session over February half term to run an environmental project with our junior club, our young people got to learn all about different birds that may live around them and learnt how to build their own birds nests. The young people got very creative on the day and lots of fun was had by all.
February 2024

Our 10-teen project got involved in a cooking project during February, The young people made pancakes with healthy options for their fillings, They enjoyed flipping and creating their own pancakes to enjoy and eat during the session.

One member said that it was so much fun, I've never made my own pancake or flipped a pancake before... Delicious...
February 2024
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Our GIRLS GLOW PROJECT setup a 7 aside football team during February half term and entered this year's Camden community shield project run by the Dome, Our girls put in a lot of hard work training before the event,

The day was a real success and was really enjoyed by all. There was some great girls football going on all day. All the players came away with medals. A big round of applause to all the girls who took part.
February 2024

​Bil Sha boxing club is a great club, they support Maiden lane clubs by coming down to our sessions. The sessions help our young people's fitness, physical strength, and help develop their focus, determination and resilience whilst learning a new skill set.

Comment from young person.
This is my first ever boxing training and I love it, I'm going to ask my mum to sign me up.
December 2023

Maiden Lane Community Nursery went on a Christmas Trip to the Talacre Treetops. The children explored the soft play.

Well done , Nabil!

Clipping from Camden New Journal on Thursday 7th December 2023 for full edition please click on the link below.
https://edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=17f44973-4555-45fd-8eaa-50c862e86de6​
October 2023

During Black History Month the Maiden Lane Community Nursery have been celebrating the different cultures. 

They did show and tell, looked at items brought in from Africa and the Caribbean.

They saw different handmade crafts, such as sculptures and dolls made from natural wood and clothing made from natural fibres made in traditional African prints.
August 2023

The Camley Street team at Camden Council partnered with Wood that Works and our young people from the Maiden Lane Community Centre. We made an incredible bench using donated railway sleepers for a future community outdoor space as part of the Camley Street redevelopment. Wood that Works were amazing with the young people and created a brilliant environment for them to learn new skills and contribute to the future of their local area with their creation. Thanks to Ricky, Honey and Cam at Wood that works and all the team at Camden council especially Preet,  Rozita for giving our young people this opportunity.
If you are interested please contact Amanda on 074 1535 4784 or email [email protected] 
27th July 2023

New Diorame Theatre bought a performance to Maiden Lane Community Centre called 'The Other way home' The show explores themes of relationships, family and change through an imaginative story of two best friends with big imaginations who like making up stories and games. Till one day the games became real.

The show was amazing all our children gave the show 5 *****
30th May 2023
Girls Glow Boxing up a Storm

The girls took part in a full day of training, learning the fundamental aspects of this sport.  They really enjoyed learning the boxing techniques, from how to stand to where to position their hands to protect themselves when sparring.  The session concluded with the girls attending a real-life Boxing Gym where they got the chance to step into the boxing ring and spar like a pro.  Thank you so much BIL SHA Boxing Club for giving the girls such a wonderful experience.
5th May 2023
The Coronation celebration 

The children prepared all week making party decorations. They made and decorated their own Crowns, and we even made our tea cakes. With all the fun filled activities the
children were finally ready for their tea party and the King's Coronation. The children came in all dressed up and and ready to party, ‘What a fun day we had’.​
GIRLS GLOW LATEST NEWS ​
​April 2023
DJing

The girls enjoying another one of our regular DJ sessions.

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February 2023
VISIT TO WAC (WEEKEND ARTS COLLEGE)

As part of their International Women’s Day offerings, the girls were invited to a creative day where they learned how to create a record a podcast from scratch.  It was a wonderful day at WAC’s fantastic premises, they created some fantastic work.
​October 2022
GIRLS GLOW FOOTBALL

The girls took part in London Youth’s Football Tournament at Coram’s.  They joined up with Queens Crescent to create a team ‘QueensLane’ They worked really hard on the day, and done themselves proud!  Well done QueensLane!
December 2022
THE PET SHOP 
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The Community Nursery had a fun visit to the local pet shop.
The children stroked the Hamsters and the Guinea Pigs, while they learned how to be
gentle and kind to the animals so they can stay calm and relaxed. Although the children
were full of chatter and excitement they did an amazing job!
Once everyone was back at the nursery, the home corner was turned into their very
own pet shop, and with a vet surgery too. All the children enjoyed joining in all the fun
activities around this project.
8th October 2022
Eid Celebration
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The Mayor of Camden Nash Ali attended Maiden Lane’s Eid Celebration held to promote community health and to bring local people together with food and fun activities for all the family to enjoy.
The Camden/NHS Health Bus was also present to support family members and  individuals who might have missed their long-term care and support during the pandemic such as people with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart related conditions.
Over 200 residents attend, and the event was a great success.
Foodbank Team
Foodbank updated

MLCC has teamed up with a new partner, York Way Sainsbury’s along with Camden town Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. We have reconnected with The London Irish Centre following the pandemic which is great. We are also working closely with Torriano school, our food bank has gone in their newsletter, and we are working with the school to help support the most in need.
Young people are volunteering on Friday evenings in the foodbank, putting food away, packing and recycling (image on the right). It is helping them to learn new skills and gain valuable experience.
Increasing referrals are coming in from family support workers. We are working with around 15-20 families a week, feeding around 40-60 people a week. This number is set to increase to above pandemic numbers as the winter sets in, along with cost-of-living crises, inflation etc.