Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre will be closing at the end of June. After our 44 years at 39 Tottenham Street, Camden is taking the building back for a long-needed refurbishment on 1 July. If we get funding before then, our advice service will move to Cromer Street, WC1 (where we will continue to run community programmes in …
Rough sleeping in Fitzrovia: autumn 2016
We estimate that there were at least 40 people sleeping rough on the streets in our neighbourhood on a typical night during the autumn of 2016. We base this estimate (which we consider a minimum figure) on a combination of several street counts, and sightings of rough sleepers observed during early morning deliveries of our …
We must stop the closure of West End Children’s Centre
We have written to Westminster City Council's West End Ward Councillors -- Paul Church, Jonathan Glanz, and Glenys Roberts -- to ask them to stop the closure of West End Children's Centre. We wrote to them saying: For parents with young children the new year has brought with it a threat from the council to close …
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Grant success for Positive Health project
We have been successful in receiving grant funding from Derwent London plc for the second year in a row. We received £16,570 for our Fitzrovia Positive Health project as part of Derwent London's community funding programme in Fitzrovia for the second year in a row. We were one of seven successful applicants to share grants totalling £66,230. Barb …
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Older Fitzrovia Newsletter August 2012
OLDER FITZROVIA NEWSLETTER August 2012 Time to Sing has been very popular. It will continue for the first two Mondays in August (6th and 13th) 11-12.30 in August at Fitzrovia Court, 24 Carburton St W1W 5AS. Come and have fun singing familiar songs with a friendly group of people. I’m not sure whether we’ll continue …
Help with getting through the Atos interview
One of our volunteers who suffers with a mental illness was called up for what is known as "the Atos interview" recently. We are pleased to say that he got through it ok thanks to a little help from out advice service. "Without the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association's help I could have ended up having my …
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