SOMERS TOWN community Association
We operate from The Saint Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre and Somers Town Community Centre, dedicated to providing cohesive, inclusive and innovative services for the local community. They support empowering communities to produce a meaningful and positive influence at every level of people's lives.
Being based at the heart of the community is part of Urban Community Projects ethos and working in a collaborative way with other charities, organisations and community groups has allowed us to have a greater influence in reaching more local people. We have joined forces on a number of key strategic aims, which includes Camden’s Young Persons’ initiative, working with Camden Police on consultation with young people on ‘stop and search’ powers and providing employment and training provision for the local community.
SAINT PANCRAS COMMUNITY Association
We collaborate on several joint projects designed to build local people’s skills and help them get employed. The community centre offers a wide range of services and activities for people of all ages in our local area. Our mutual aims to enable residents to work, play and learn together has seen us forge a new scheme Coach 2 Success, helping young residents gain a qualification and a career in fitness. We also use their state of the art recording studio, as part of our ‘One Mic, One Life’ project.
PRO TOUCH SOCCER
Pro Touch Soccer, formed by Ash Rahman run our FA Level 1 football coaching courses. They help, support and encourage potential young, gifted and talented local football players. Creating opportunities for young people to become qualified football coaches to train other local people.
maiden lane community centre
After the success of Urban Community Projects managing Maiden Lane Community Centres £326k John Lyons funded 3 year project Urban Folk, we teamed up with them again in 2017, to pilot our ‘One Mic, One Life’, project to great success.
We continue to work closely together, empowering a wide section of young people in the Cantelowes Ward in Camden.