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Spring fun in Highgate with CREATE
Spring is in the air, and we’re thrilled to announce a fantastic lineup of FREE holiday activities for young people aged 8 to 18, in partnership with Home in Highgate ending with a family funday! Get ready for a couple of weeks packed with excitement and creativity, leading up to the opening of the Edge […]
Closer to the Edge
Thank you to everyone who made half term so special in Highgate! We’ve been busy getting “Closer to the Edge,” ready to reopen The Edge later this spring. CREATE (Creative Revolutionary Evolution @ The Edge), our amazing steering group of young people, has been at the heart of it all to develop a range of […]
Close to the Edge in Highgate
We’ve got an exciting programme of FREE activities in Highgate this half term for everyone! Please contact us as soon as you can to book your place – there’s loads of opportunities to get out and do something creative – especially for ages 8 to 18 years. Follow this link to register your place and […]
Happy New Year in Highgate!
‘We’ve had an amazing year ‘Home in Highgate in 2024, and next week we’ll be finalising plans for 2025! Join us at Stanhope Wellbeing Hub 1:45 Thursday 23rd January. It’s amazing to think what we’ve achieved together since we started back in June 2024 – check out some of our blogposts to catch up: Chandos […]
Get Together at Stanhope this Winter
Home in Highgate are running a drop-in event at Stanhope Wellbeing Hub on the 19th of December, 12pm-3pm. Come along to enjoy workshop activities, including green craft, and a small exhibition produced by Art Club. Catch up on what the Home in Highgate team have been up to by watching some films of the activities […]
Chandos finds what Community sounds like
Chandos Primary School, collaborative music-making led by Natalie Mason and Beth Hopkins (Multicultural Music Making) work with year 5 at Chandos Primary School, supported by found sound and interview work with Marcus Belben and Russell Green, explore what it means to be ‘Home in Highgate’. We introduced our giant map, ran interviewing workshops and walked […]
Indonesia Journal #1- Journey and arrival
We took off from Birmingham on Thursday afternoon, arriving at Jakarta airport at 6pm on Friday. It got a bit complicated getting through immigration, signage was confusing, and we joined several queues we didn’t need to, before finally realizing our pre-booked visas and UK passports allowed us to use the automatic gates and we sailed […]
Bring New Hope Home in Highgate this Saturday
It’s summer fete time with our Highgate friends on Saturday August 31st 11am to 4pm in New Hope Park! There’ll be games, food and fun, all free organised by Birmingham Open Space Forum and all our local partners from Highgate Cultural Action Area! This summer Friction have been working with Young People in […]
Making Friends and Dens Home in Highgate
Join us for a fun-filled day of den-making at Appletopia Park (formerly Conybere Street Public Open Space) on Thursday, August 29th from 11am to 1pm, and then at St.Martin’s Youth and Community Centre, 1pm to 5pm. Our Summer Youth Programme for ages 8 to 18 has been a blast, and we’re inviting parents with younger children […]
CREATE Discover Highgate
18th May we went with our youth panel and art club members to discover Highgate. First step was to check out our giant map, and find out where people wanted to go. We went to the Baptist Church, home of Rev. Peter Stanford (1858-1909), who was the first Black Baptist Minister in the UK (Benjamin […]