NLA Awards Winner 2025

Talk

Thursday 11 December 2025
08:30 - 09:30

Members Only

Free

Join us for a celebratory Breakfast Talk with the Highgate Newtown Community Partners team, winners of the 2025 NLA Overall Prize for generous design and social impact.

Celebrating RCKa’s Highgate Newtown Community Partners
Join us for a celebratory Breakfast Talk with the team behind Highgate Newtown Community Partners, winner of the NLA Awards 2025 Overall Prize, praised for its generosity, beauty, and extraordinary social impact.

“Small in scale – huge in impact… a generous, beautiful, charming and wonderful project.”
- Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, NLA Awards International Jury

About the Session
Hear how RCKa transformed a neglected former drill hall into 41 high-quality affordable homes and 2,000 sqm of vibrant community space, creating a model for socially driven, community-led development in London.

Why Attend
Whether you’re an architect, planner, local authority, or community organisation, this session offers tangible lessons on how design can shape a more equitable and connected London.

“Highgate Newtown Community Centre shows what’s possible when London redesigns its neighbourhoods around the changing needs of its people.”
- Janette Sadik-Khan, NLA Awards International Jury

Celebrate excellence, learn from one of the year’s most inspiring projects, and take away fresh ideas for your own work. Reserve your spot now, limited places available.

Speaker biographies

Dieter Kleiner

Director, RCKa

Lucy Millichamp

Programme Manager, NLA

Alan Beveridge

Associate Director, RCKa

Members Only

Free

VENUE

The London Centre
3 Aldermanbury
London
EC2V 7HH

ACCESSIBILITY

There are two ways of entering The London Centre: either up 3 steps with a handrail on either side, or via a platform lift. There are gender-neutral and accessible toilets on the lower ground floor, which can be accessed via a flight of stairs or lift. There is seating and water available on both levels. For any access enquiries please contact events@nla.london