Entries by Marice Cumber

Accumul8 and Birdsong London at London Fashion Week

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When Accumul8 did the London Fashion Week project, Birdsong London came along too to talk to the group about their own social enterprise. Birdsong is a project which sells fashion products made by women’s groups which actively work to improve women’s lives. The meeting of the two groups was also a way to introduce the issues surrounding […]

Photography workshops and London Fashion Week

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So it’s now March 2016, and we are half way through delivering the series of photography workshops to young homeless people living in hostels across London. Three hostels are involved: the North London YMCA Hostel, the East London YMCA Hostel and the group of Evolve hostels in south London. Feeling the benefits Working with multiple […]

2016 and we’re ready to go!

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We’ve achieved so much in 2015- and there’s lots to look forward to in 2016. We held a photography exhibition at Hornsey Town Hall, which surpassed all expectations:A Private View which was buzzing with appreciative public, press and our photographers, who got lots of networking done, and were delighted with the response to their work. We […]

Helping others to help themselves.

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Summer has been and gone, and we are now leading up to the end of the year and all the frenzy that goes with it. For Accumul8 that means one major creative activity – the making and selling of the Accumul8 Preserves with a Purpose, which we make from surplus fruit donated by the community […]

We win “Haringey at 50” film competition

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We are really, really chuffed to say that the Accumul8 film, made with the wonderful Suzanne Cohen, a film lecturer from London Met University, has won the Haringey at 50 film competition. All the films submitted had to be about what Haringey means to you as part of the borough’s celebrations of being created 50 years […]

The Accumul8 Exhibition

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Today, 14th June, is the last day of the Accumul8 exhibition at Hornsey Town Hall. It has been an incredible journey, from being filmed for London Tonight, selling Accumul8 photographs, jam and greeting cards and having so much positive interest, enthusiasm and encouragement from the visitors to the show. Estimates are that over 1,400 people […]

Our photo exhibition opens today

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We open the Accumul8 exhibition today at 6pm at Hornsey Town Hall. It’s going to be awesome! We’ve already been featured in The Big Issue – see photo. And to add to the excitement, London Tonight came to film yesterday, here we are prepping for it. and to celebrate it all we went out to […]

All systems go for the 2015 Accumul8 exhibition!

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The big build-up for the 2015 Accumul8 exhibition has arrived. This year the Accumul8 exhibition venue will be at the glorious Hornsey Town Hall, a beautiful art deco building in the centre of Crouch End. We will also be showing a film that the residents have made, in addition to the photography that they have […]

Accumul8 gets featured in The Guardian!

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Sometimes really good things happen with Accumul8, and getting featured in The Guardian is a fantastic achievement. The Guardian focused on the story of Accumul8 and how the students at Ravensbourne are learning and developing skills from teaching the YMCA residents about photography skills as well as developing an understanding of the project. One of the goals when I set […]