Camden Collective

Camden Collective

Formation	2009
Type	Charity
Location	London Borough of Camden
Parent organization	Camden Town Unlimited
Staff	1-10
Website	camdencollective.co.uk

Camden Collective is a regeneration project located in the London Borough of Camden.^[1][2][3]

History

The project has been run by Camden Town Unlimited, the business improvement district for Camden Town since 2009.^[4][5][6] Camden Collective carries out projects including public art, co-working spaces, pop up shops, accelerator and business support courses.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} The project relies on grants and raising revenue to support its activities.^[12][13][14]

Participants

Notable businesses using the co-working spaces include SB.TV, Clime-it Brothers and Sudden Black.^[15][16] A Channel 4 documentary series, Bedroom to Boardroom that followed SB.TV was filmed in Camden Collective’s co-working space.^[17] PayneShurvell, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Hospital Records and UK band Enter Shikari have previously used the Camden Collective pop up shops.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Properties

Camden Collective re-purposes previously vacant and underused properties for its activities.^[22] 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.^[23][24] In 2013, the project opened a 3-storey retail and co-working space on Camden High Street.^[25][26][27] Since 2015, the project has been using National Temperance Hospital ahead of its likely demolition for HS2 at Euston.^[28][29][30]

References

1. High streets' decline, ITV News.
2. Camden Collective hailed as a ‘leading example’ as Labour sets out economic plan, Ham & High.
3. Whatever happened to the reinvention of the UK high street?, The Guardian.
4. London’s Camden reinvents itself as hub for emerging businesses, Financial Times.(subscription required)
5. Pep up high street with pop-up shops, says report into vacant premises, Evening Standard.
6. The London High Street Possibilities Primer. Design for London. 2009.
7. "Miniature rail-line to run along Camden High Street rooftop". Camden New Journal.
8. camden collective takes art to the rooftops for london design festival, Designboom.
9. Want to get into the creative industries? Watch this space, The Independent.
10. CASE STUDY: Collective, a pop-up gallery in Camden Town, Greater London Authority.
11. Camden Collective helps creative start-ups accelerate their business, Greater London Authority.
12. Mayor's Regeneration Fund, Greater London Authority.
13. High Street Fund, Greater London Authority.
14. Growing Places Fund, London Enterprise Panel.
15. Our friend Mo has gone from ‘Moneydoublez’ the drug dealer to pillar of the community, Evening Standard.
16. ANIMAL LONDON: SUDDEN BLACK AND THE CAMDEN COLLECTIVE, Animal New York.
17. Inside SBTV: From Bedroom to Boardroom, Channel 4.
18. Andrew Curtis / The Leisure Circle / 1 – 22 March, PayneShurvell.
19. #Amys30 Pop Up Shop – Collective, Amy Winehouse Foundation.
20. Camden Pop-up Hospital Shop Love, Hospital Records.
21. Enter Shikari Unveil London Pop-Up Shop, Kerrang.
22. Transforming Camden High Street: Camden Collective, All In London.
23. Collective Camden, Dexter Moren Associates.
24. Build it... and they will show, GQ.
25. Deputy Mayor helps Camden’s creative entrepreneurs celebrate 1st year of success, Greater London Authority.
26. How we did it: Boosting vitality through pop-up lettings, Planning Resource. (subscription required)
27. Regeneration Guide #1 (2015). Funding Bids. Greater London Authority.
28. HS2: Proposal to get National Temperance Hospital into use, Camden Council.
29. "National Temperance Hospital: back in business". Kentish Towner.
30. "Co-working space to resuscitate derelict Camden hospital". The Spaces Magazine.