Karten Centre Highlights

The Karten Newtwork publishes a newsletter four times a year. Each edition is filled with news and other interesting articles – below are the most recent articles from the Karten Centres.

  • St Helens Central Station We have recently adopted our local railway station.  We work in partnership with St Helens Rotary club. We have built seven planters that now sit on both platforms.  We will over the coming months produce artwork that will complement the planters representing St Helens through the ages. Our Towns Sound This […]
  • Inklusion St John’s opened the doors in 2012 having secured funding for our project from the Ian Karten Charitable Trust. Starting as a printshop in Seaford we have now relocated to our Brighton college campus to be more inclusive of our students’ skills and to be part of the thriving community the city offers. Through a […]
  • Our New Bridge Enterprise have had another amazing year, developing a new product to add to their long list of products. This year has seen the birth of the Snugglioz!  Snugglioz aim to be a calming and stress relieving teddy by scanning a QR code and revealing a heartfelt message. As ever, the students have been […]
  • Daniel, one of our Creative Media students who studies in our Karten Centre, came first in the Giant Slalom event and fourth overall in alpine skiing at the recent Special Olympics GB National Winter Games held in Italy. Located in Folgaria, in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige, the week-long competition offered 73 athletes the […]
  • At Homefield College, we take immense pride in nurturing talent and providing real-world experiences that shape our students’ futures. One shining example of this is Luke, a Pathway 2 student who has been excelling in his internal work experience with our IT support team. Luke’s dedication and skills have been nothing short of remarkable. Here’s […]
  • In the previous edition of the newsletter Norwood shared their experience with the Pamela Barnet Sensory Space Project. This time they share two case studies highlighting the impact the Sensory Space has. Case study- Bry*- Ravenswood Resident Bry is non-verbal, with very limited movement and she tends to withdraw from people if her mood is […]
  • BID Services is a charity which works to remove barriers and empower those who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, sight impaired, deafblind or have other disabilities to live full lives. Our team in Leeds has setup a mobile Karten Centre which can not only offer access to technology and support at our city centre office […]
  • Christmas logo December saw Queen Alexandra College’s (QAC) usual logo get taken over by a specially designed Christmas logo created by one of the college’s IT students based in its Karten Centre.  Not only did Zachary decide to create the logo he then submitted it through the appropriate channels with the request of it being […]
  • Over the past few years, we have developed a very strong relationship with the Local Authority’s young people’s service. We recently developed their young peoples Transition website. We were also approached and commissioned to design and produce a promotional film for Supported Internships. The Supported Internship programme is an educational course at St Helens College. […]
  • Laura liked to use the computers Laura enjoyed spending her time in Lakeside Printing by finding pictures on google and printing them out. Motivating Laura to use the equipment for any other purpose was almost impossible. Whilst it was lovely to Laura enjoying her time, she was not developing her skills or progressing in her […]