Camden Collective is a

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project located in the

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History

The project has been run by Camden Town Unlimited, the business improvement district for

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since 2009. Camden Collective carries out projects including

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, co-working spaces, pop up shops, accelerator and business support courses. The project relies on

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and raising revenue to support its activities.

Participants

Notable businesses using the co-working spaces include

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, Clime-it Brothers, Sudden Black and

Stemettes Stemettes is a social enterprise which encourages girls and young women aged 5–25 to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM). Stemettes runs panel events, hackathons, the Student to Stemette mentoring programme supp ...

. A

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documentary series, Bedroom to Boardroom that followed SB.TV was filmed in Camden Collective's co-working space.

PayneShurvell PayneShurvell is a contemporary art gallery based in William Road in Kings Cross, London. It shows the work of Andrew Curtis, Aidan McNeill, Wrik Mead, Margaret Harrison, Anka Dabrowska and other internationally-recognised artists. The policy of ...

Amy Winehouse Foundation The Amy Winehouse Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (number 1143740), set up in memory of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse (1983–2011). After Amy Winehouse's untimely death, on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning ...

Hospital Records Hospital Records is a British independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman (London Elektricity) and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of ...

and UK band

Enter Shikari Enter Shikari (stylised as enter: shikari and occasionally as ΣΠΤΣ℞ SΗΦΚ∆℞Φ) are a British rock band formed in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England in 1999 by bassist Chris Batten, lead vocalist and keyboardist Rou Reynolds, and drum ...

have previously used the Camden Collective pop up shops.

Properties

Camden Collective re-purposes previously vacant and underused properties for its activities. 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 The Roberts Institute of Art, formerly operating as David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), is a non-profit contemporary arts organisation based in London. It commissions pioneering performance art, collaborates with national partners on exhibitions ...

in a 19th-century converted furniture factory. In 2013, the project opened a 3-storey retail and co-working space on

Camden High Street The A400 road is an A road in London that runs from Charing Cross (near Trafalgar Square, in London's West End) to Archway in North London. It passes some of London's most famous landmarks. The Northern line ( Charing Cross and High Barne ...

. From 2015 to 2017, the project used

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ahead of its demolition for

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at Euston. In 2017, the project opened its 19th building, a co-working space, in a TfL-owned property in Camden Town.

References

{{Portal bar, United Kingdom Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden Organizations established in 2009