Press Release News & Updates
- 12th November 2018
On Wednesday 7 November, a new sculpture was unveiled at Heathfield Recreation Ground in Twickenham to raise awareness for dementia.
Kensington and Chelsea College (KCC) Level 4 Art and Design graduate, Simone Bynoe, was selected by Curator Rosalind Davis for the Rules of Freedom exhibition. Simone is the youngest career artist to be exhibiting, alongside her KCC tutor, Justin Hibbs.
- 31st October 2018
Welcoming over 1,000 customers through its doors in just the first few days, the UK’s leading craft bakery Warrens Bakery, has opened its newest store in Sutton.
- 30th October 2018
Over the last twelve months, students and staff from Richmond upon Thames College (RuTC) raised over £770 for ‘Shooting Star Chase’, the leading children’s hospice charity caring for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.
A free cancer information and support service is coming direct to patients in Hammersmith on Monday 22nd October and to Acton on Tuesday 23rd October.
- 16th October 2018
The UK’s best loved seasonal home event, Ideal Home Show Christmas is returning for its eighth magical year between the 21st – 25th November at London’s Olympia - with over 600 exhibitors and enough festive filled content to create the ultimate Christmas at home.
- 28th September 2018
Thursday 20th September 2018 saw the 6th year of Merton Chamber of Commerce’s Merton Best Business Awards, with a return to the All England Lawn Tennis Club after their refurbishment. The evening was an amazing celebration of business success in the borough, and also an event that demonstrated partnership working and the talent we have in Merton.
- 21st September 2018
Marlborough Primary School, an architectural award-winning school in London’s Chelsea run by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, will be on show for the first time at the world’s biggest architectural festival, Open House, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September.
Kensington and Chelsea College learners Armstrong Nkosi and Kevin Kimbenga are celebrating the success of their film ‘The Eyes of Grenfell’ which was accepted into the Portobello Film & Arts Festival 2018. The Grenfell Tower documentary demonstrates community feeling around the tragic fire that occurred, at its first anniversary.
- 30th August 2018
Students at Kensington and Chelsea College (KCC) celebrated some of the highest GCSE retake grades in London. Pass rates at KCC were 54.7 per cent for GCSE English and 25.7 for GCSE Maths compared to the London average of 37.2 per cent and 25.7 per cent for GCSE English and Maths respectively.