The Camden Challenge Prize is a recurring innovation competition that focuses on a different Camden mission between 2025 and 2030. There’s a financial reward for whoever can most effectively solve a problem and demonstrate impact.

This year, the first ever Challenge Prize aims to spark new ideas and bring fresh perspectives to our Food Mission. This is your chance to make a difference.

Have a great idea for your community? The We Make Camden Kit gives money and support to Camden citizens and community groups who want to start projects or initiatives.

A panel of Camden residents from across the borough decides who is awarded funding, with support from Camden Giving and Camden Council. We’ve already awarded over 360 grants, so why not apply!

Thinking about holding a community event? Kickstart your event with our step-by-step guides, which take you through how to organise coffee mornings, clothes swaps, sports days and street parties. Each guide includes a timeline to make organising easy and lists of essentials you’ll need to make your event a success.

Cooperation Town is a network of food co-ops, where members pool together to buy food in bulk and access surplus food from supermarkets. Each household pays £3 to £10 a week and gets about five times what they pay for in value – saving up to 40% on weekly food costs.

“If you want to join or start a food co-op, we can help. Get in touch at cooperation.town or visit our co-op in Gospel Oak.” Shiri Shalmy, Organiser at Cooperation Town

We Make Camden Citizens’ Group is a new initiative launched by Camden to get a better understanding of the lives of our residents.

What does it involve? Surveys, phone interviews, focus groups and more. For most of these you’ll be rewarded with payment for your time equivalent to London Living Wage.

If you’d like to take part, just complete this online questionnaire or email participation@camden.gov.uk with your name and address and we’ll post a paper questionnaire to you.

Looking to book a venue in Camden for Camden Residents? Voluntary Action Camden is funded by Google to provide a fund of up to £300 per quarter for small organisations looking to book a space to provide their work group / activity / session.

Find out more here: On the Voluntary Action Camden website
or get in contact at info@vac.org.uk