The Nour Festival 2014 celebrating Middle Eastern and North African arts and culture October & November at venues across RBKC

Nour Festival announces its 2014 programme  News   Nour Festival of Arts 20 October - 30 November 2014 The Nour Festival, which celebrates contemporary Middle Eastern and North African arts and culture, takes place in October and November at venues across Kensington and Chelsea. The six week festival featuring music, film, food, exhibitions, talks and dance launches on Monday 20 October and runs through to Sunday 30 November. This year, the festival welcomes for the first time new partners such as the Finborough Theatre, the Electric Cinema and the Royal Geographical Society and Westway Presents. Read more »

CATS Celebrate World Cat day

Sir Laurence Olivier with his favourite cat "New Boy" at his Chelsea Home in 1946
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Down Brompton Lane: more houses and stories The Librairy Time Machine

Down Brompton Lane: more houses and stories

Holy Trinity Church 1820

By Dave Walker

This is another leg in our journey through Old Brompton in the first half of the 19th century when Brompton Lane (now Old Brompton Road) was a main artery linking Fulham with the Kensington Turnpike...READ More from The Librairy TimeMachine

No affordable houses available in the Borough

Friday, 18th July 2014

With the London property market enjoying a seemingly endless boom, buying a home has become a distant fantasy for most working Londoners. This is particularly true in Kensington and Chelsea where house prices increased by 14% over just one year (2012-13) and average well over £1million (according towww.rightmove.com).

Now a damning new report shows just how far out of reach home-ownership is for most of us living (and most likely renting) in the capital.

The report, published by the charity Shelter, reveals 99.7% of London homes are unaffordable for first time buyers. Shelter looked at the asking prices of thousands of properties for sale in the capital, on a given day, and compared them to mortgages that are affordable to average first time buyers capable of saving the standard 18% deposit. They found that, across the whole of London, only 86 homeswere affordable to the typical buyer, or 0.3% of houses on the market. READ MORE FROM KC&W Today

Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Exercise Sessions at New Horizons 22nd August for Over 50's

Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Exercise Sessions

The New Horizons Centre 

Friday the 22nd August 2014

12.00-1pm followed by half hour support in the Cafe   

Supported by NHS Kensington and Chelsea, 

New Horizons helps people

over 50 to maintain active, healthy lifestyles and enjoy life to their full 

potential. This 8-week course gives breast cancer survivors the opportunity to regain confidence and fitness and to meet with like minded 

people. Taught by a specially qualified exercise professional, each session consists of 1 hour of safe and effective individualised exercise 

followed by a half hour of informal social time. The course is limited to 8 

individuals and participants must be referred by their specialist practice 

nurse or cancer unit.

The cost is £1.25 per session.

For more information, please contact the New Horizons Centre on 020 

75908970, New Horizons, Guinness Trust Estate, Cadogan Street, 

London SW3 2PF

More information

CATs Facts Friday The Chelsea set and a question of class and The Sutton Estate - Telegraph

The Chelsea set and a question of class - Telegraph

SEAN O'NEILL asks the people of a London borough interviewing tenants from the Sutton Estate, at the centre of a unique property battle whether they think the old social structures still exist.
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Cadogan makes a public announcement on the Curzon cinema development

Cadogan: a public announcement on the Curzon cinema development from Chelsea Society

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The Chelsea Society | Curzon Cinema - Public Announcement from Cadogan

chelseasociety.org.uk

Cadogan has released a public announcement which you can read via the link SS Aug14 19 briefing NEW2-2[1] Cadogan confirms ... Read More at The Chelsea Society...MORE

CAC Chelsea Arts Collective news. New Classes for Children in August

CAC Chelsea Arts Collective news

QUADRANGLE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN 6 TO 16 YEARS OLD
August Saturdays from 1pm to 3pm, Education Room at the Saatchi gallery











http://www.pegadosprinciple.co.uk/ The email address on the site http://www.pegadosprinciple.co.uk/ does not exist anymore. For information on the Quadrangle classes please write to pegado@btinternet.com or lilia8green@gmail.com

CATS FACTS FRIDAY Are all the people who live in Chelsea well off?

CATS FACTS FRIDAY taken from London Poverty Profile

RBKC is London in microcosm. It has the second highest average income in London, of £36,000. However, this prosperity is not shared equally, and the borough also contains above average levels of deprivation. This deprivation is almost exclusively concentrated in the north of the borough, with the five northerly boroughs of Norland, Colville, St. Charles Notting Barns and Golbourne each including at least one 'Lower Super Output Area' in the 20% most deprived in the country. Golbourne is the 8th most deprived ward in London, out of 627. Earl’s Court, Redcliffe and Cremome also include areas of disadvantage. 
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