Camden Collective is a regeneration project located in the London Borough of Camden.High streets' decline, ITV News.Camden Collective hailed as a ‘leading example’ as Labour sets out economic plan, Ham & High.Whatever happened to the reinvention of the UK high street?, The Guardian.
History The project has been run by Camden Town Unlimited, the business improvement district for Camden Town since 2009.London’s Camden reinvents itself as hub for emerging businesses, Financial Times.Pep up high street with pop-up shops, says report into vacant premises, Evening Standard. Camden Collective carries out projects including public art, co-working spaces, pop up shops, accelerator and business support courses.camden collective takes art to the rooftops for london design festival, Designboom.Want to get into the creative industries? Watch this space, The Independent.CASE STUDY: Collective, a pop-up gallery in Camden Town, Greater London Authority.Camden Collective helps creative start-ups accelerate their business, Greater London Authority. The project relies on grants and raising revenue to support its activities.Mayor's Regeneration Fund, Greater London Authority.High Street Fund, Greater London Authority.Growing Places Fund , London Enterprise Panel.
Participants Notable businesses using the co-working spaces include SB.TV, Clime-it Brothers, Sudden Black and Stemettes.Our friend Mo has gone from ‘Moneydoublez’ the drug dealer to pillar of the community, Evening Standard.ANIMAL LONDON: SUDDEN BLACK AND THE CAMDEN COLLECTIVE, Animal New York. A Channel 4 documentary series, Bedroom to Boardroom that followed SB.TV was filmed in Camden Collective's co-working space.Inside SBTV: From Bedroom to Boardroom, Channel 4. PayneShurvell, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Hospital Records and UK band Enter Shikari have previously used the Camden Collective pop up shops.Andrew Curtis / The Leisure Circle / 1 – 22 March, PayneShurvell.#Amys30 Pop Up Shop – Collective, Amy Winehouse Foundation.Camden Pop-up Hospital Shop Love, Hospital Records.Enter Shikari Unveil London Pop-Up Shop, Kerrang.
Properties Camden Collective re-purposes previously vacant and underused properties for its activities.Transforming Camden High Street: Camden Collective, All In London. The original ‘wire-less, wall-less’ Collective co-working space was designed by Dexter Moren Associates in 2009, and was located above David Roberts Art Foundation in a 19th-century converted furniture factory.Collective Camden , Dexter Moren Associates.Build it... and they will show , GQ.
In 2013, the project opened a 3-storey retail and co-working space on Camden High Street.Deputy Mayor helps Camden’s creative entrepreneurs celebrate 1st year of success, Greater London Authority.How we did it: Boosting vitality through pop-up lettings, Planning Resource.
From 2015 to 2017, the project used National Temperance Hospital ahead of its demolition for HS2 at Euston.HS2: Proposal to get National Temperance Hospital into use, Camden Council.
In 2017, the project opened its 19th building, a co-working space, in a TfL-owned property in Camden Town.
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