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For some time the Bloomsbury Association have been looking to find a way to be able to encourage local businesses to offer jobs to local people. They have now established working relations with the InMidtown Business Improvement District which covers Bloomsbury, Holborn and St Giles areas with a membership of over 500 businesses...

Listed by English Heritage for its "stylish design characteristic of the 1930s, which responds in scale and materials to the existing streetscape of Georgian Bloomsbury" and "an unusual degree of surviving original fabric in the Duke of York public house". http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1393968

The Metropolitan Police has a non-emergency crime and hate crime/incident reporting website. You can use this service to notify the Metropolitan Police of the following crimes / incidents committed within the Greater London Authority area.     •    Theft - excluding:     •    Robbery (where you or the person you are reporti...

Your help is needed. Following the successful campaign to keep Millman Street Resource Centre open, Camden Council have funded the service to run until the end of March 2012.  From April 2012 Holborn Community Association is going to have to find alternative ways of funding and delivering services for older people in Holbor...

Camden Council have launced an new community engagement website called - We Are Camden. "We are Camden has one aim: to be a place where the borough comes together. We all want to keep making the borough a great place to work, rest and play. We all have knowledge, opinions and ideas. This is the place where conversations w...

The Leverhulme-funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury's development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life. This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project's lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with t...

Local residents Matt & Cat are setting up a Friends of St. Andrew's Gardens Society. You can help make the gardens prettier, foster a greater sense of community, and reduce crime & anti-social behaviour in the park.  If there's enough interest there could even be a summer picnic. Camden council are genuinely really keen to help...

Report, view, or discuss local problems (like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting) FixMyStreet is a site to help people report, view, or discuss local problems they've found to their local council by simply locating them on a map. It launched in early February 2007. http://www.fixmystreet.com/

Detailed interactive crime maps for England and Wales have been published by the Home Office - the first time anywhere in the world such information has been released. The maps also detail which police officers are responsible for their area. Home Secretary Theresa May has said they will give people the information they need t...

Community Alert is a community-led anonymous anti-social behaviour reporting system. Our aim is to operate a system that helps the community to: Report and Map local quality of life concerns and incidents in a logical and comprehensive manner whilst remaining anonymous, all in real-time; Organise information about such concerns...