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Lumen Cafe to close between 16-30 August

Kumar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:38:25 +0000

The Lumen Cafe will be closing from Mon 16 Aug to Mon 30 Aug.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Take care,

Lumen Cafe team

We don’t deliver pizza!

Kumar — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:20:47 +0000

“One can ‘deliver’ a parcel or a pizza, but not health or education. All public services require the ‘customer’ to be an active agent in the ‘production’ of the required outcomes. Education and health care initiatives simply fail if the intended recipients are unwilling or unable to engage in a constructive way; they are outcomes that are co-produced by citizens.”

Each month we publish a new letter from Edgar Cahn. We are now on Letter 11 of our series, entitled ‘We don’t deliver pizza’. Read more…

A Social Justice Perspective

Kumar — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:13:42 +0000

Our latest edition of Edgar Cahn’s Letters from America has arrived. Here’s a quick exerpt:

“Time Banking is not just about meeting present needs. It is also how we shape the world we will leave behind. Just maybe, our time on this planet is something we hold in trust for our descendants.

Time Banking does not exist in a vacuum. There are problems that make it more difficult for some than for others to preserve their families, raise their children, create safe neighbourhoods, and build community. More and more children go into foster care, come home from school to an empty home, cope with drugs, cross the line into delinquency, and go to schools that lose 40% of those who enter. The problems don’t end with growing up: changes in the job market, lack of a living.”

Read the full letter…

We are currently recruiting

Kumar — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:14:40 +0000

We currently have two job positions we are looking to fill. They are both fantastic roles and we look forward to receiving applications from enthusiastic people wishing to join and our dynamic team.

The job positions are:

1) Senior Support, Time and Recovery (STR) Worker – Day Services

2) Intermediate Support, Time and Recovery (STR) Worker – HCCT Services

For a full job description, candidate requirements and application information go to our recruitment page.

Edgar Cahn’s letters are back

Kumar — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:29:58 +0000

Sorry for the delay folks!

The excellent series of letters from Edgar Cahn continues…

Here are the links to the newest instalments:

Letter No5 (December ‘10) – Priciple 1 – an asset perspective
Letter No6 (January ‘10) – Principle 2 – honouring real work
Letter No7 (February ‘10) – Principle 3 – reciprocity

Edgar Cahn is a true pioneer of Timebanking. He has been very influential in driving through ideas and methods for social and economic change. He offers some radical perspectives which challenge the paradigms we live by.

How might we change the way in which society fundamentally operates for the benefit of all? Wel,l take a read and find out more.

(Oh, and there’s a new letter up each month so come back for further instalments.)

and We are sure you will find them very interes

Cinema joins the timebank

Kumar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:16:42 +0000

Film-lovers can now use their time-credits for tickets to a local cinema – give us a call on 0207 278 4437 for more details and have a look at the timebanking page to learn more about our timebank.

Care 2 Work Training Programme

Kumar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:06:15 +0000

Are you over 50 and living in the boroughs of Brent or Islington?

Are you interested in returning to work or training but currently not receiveing Job Seekers’ Allowance?

HCCT have teamd up with CITE and NHS Jobshop, Kentish Town to offer a programme of support, development, work experience and training to help you take your first steps back to work or pre-vocational training.

For further details call Natalie on 0207 278 4437

Goodbye & Thank You to Stephanie

Kumar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:58:17 +0000

Goodbye and thank you to our wonderful Belgian Intern Stephanie Meunier. Stephanie was with us for three months and worked across the organisation. She was a ray of sunshine and she is much missed especially by those attending refugee sessions. Good luck Stephanie! Photos of Stephanie’s leaving celebration to follow in the “Gallery”!

Congratulations on Exam Passes

Kumar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:52:02 +0000

Congratulations to all those volunteers at HCCT and Mind in Camden who recently passed exams at level 2 and 3 which contribute towards City and Guilds certificates in Community Mental Health Work.

Your say event

Kumar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:18:47 +0000

Thanks to everyone who attendedand those who helped organise the ‘your day-centre, your say’ eventat Crossfield centre on 28th July – it proved to be a successful and fun event.