The music studio is up and running at Carney’s with new added sessions on the timetable: Monday: 6.30- 8.00 pmTuesday: 4.00- 5.00 pmWednesday: 6.30- 8.00 pmThursday: 4.00- 5.00 pm This has been a great success amongst the participants, who are thoroughly enjoying getting connected with music! Well done to Andrew and Pim for all of their hard work in both organising and running the sessions- if you would like to join/ recommend someone please do get in touch!

Academic year of 2019- 2020 We want to help support our participants with an equality of opportunities within their educational achievements- to help to close the attainment gaps by means such as 1-2-1 tutoring support for our young people on low incomes, and through providing equipment for them to study with. As community, lets come together to support our young people to be the very best that that can be- can you help by volunteering as a tutor on our Tutor Project?

We are fundraising to raise £15,000 to get a new gym floor, which is damaged due to wear and tear but is essential for the sessions that we run seven days a week. Please donate via the options on the right if you are able to help us achieve this goal. Thank you!

After the triumphant success of the Carney’s comedy night back in 2018, we are delighted to confirm that Carney’s comedy night 2 is open for business at Battersea Arts Centre on Wednesday 22nd January, where we will cheer your January blues with a night of hilarity. For just £50 (+ booking fee) we have a fabulous line up of comedians to keep you laughing all evening as you enjoy plentiful refreshments, kindly provided by Savills. When: Wednesday 22nd January. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7.30pm. Where: The Bedford Pub, 77 Bedford Hill, London SW12 9HDCost: £50 + booking fees.Tickets: Book tickets here Thanks for your support, we look forward to seeing you on 22nd January! 

Carney’s Community is looking for Chief Operations Officer to help us move into our next exciting phase. Carney’s Community has undergone a period of huge change over the last six years. Originally based in Fitzroy lodge boxing club, we moved into our current premises – the Carney’s Community Centre – in 2013. This has allowed us to expand our activities and grow our presence, as well as significantly expanding our funding base. This expansion now requires a capable operations and finance lead to support the Chief Executive Officer into the next exciting phase of Carney’s Community’s development. After a period of significant expansion we are entering a consolidation phase, aiming to improve the effectiveness of our internal systems and processes, the capabilities of our team, and ultimately the quality of our impact on the young people we work with. The successful candidate will be a senior manager who has run […]

World champion and double Olympic gold medalist, Nicola Adams OBE, came to Carney’s Community on 2nd October to surprise one of our boxers whose birthday it was with a cake, Nicola then did a Q&A with our participants!

Musician Tinie Tempah came down to observe our boxing sessions and then did a session in our music studio, with participant Andrew and a select group of other participants. This came about following on from a presentation we did to Mercedes a couple of years ago. After that, they kindly linked us in with funders Laureus and then more recently, to arrange for a couple of their ambassadors to come down and visit our participants.

We got coverage in The Wandsworth Times for our bike workshops where we train 11-18 year olds to fix up unwanted bikes. The teenagers then get to keep the bikes or they are sold on with any profits re-invested into local youth projects. Our lead youth worker Rory said: Through our regular workshops, local young people get to work with mechanics to fix up abandoned or unwanted bikes. They learn useful practical skills and they get to keep the bikes which they would not otherwise be able to afford. Often these bikes are left on the streets in estates or outside train stations, and it’s thanks to the initiative taken by organisations like Positively Putney BID that they are removed off the streets and donated to a good cause.”

We need unwanted bikes for our youth initiative: Carney’s Cycles We are running more of our successful ‘fix a bike and keep it’ workshops and need bike donations for young people to fix up. The initiative continues, as part of a national campaign called #knivesdownbikesup.

From Monday 10th – Monday 17th June, we are aiming to raise £12,000 as part of the Summer Give.