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The Green Guide for Historic Buildings

written by Julia on 09.06.10

This guide, published earlier this year, seeks to tackle two mammouth and difficult subjects in one fell swoop; climate change and heritage preservation.

'A Green Guide for Historic Buildings; How to improve the environmental sustainibility of historic buildings', wa...

Meanwhile Kick Start workshops starting this weekend!

written by Josie on 07.05.10

Our friend's over at the Meanwhile Project are running a series of free, interactive "Kick Start" workshops.  Focussing on the Hackney area, the series is designed to help budding meanwhile users to kick start their projects by bringing meanwhile groups together with property owners, local auth...

Free Communitybuilders funding workshop in Hackney

written by Josie on 27.11.09

We've just heard from our colleagues over at Hackney CVS that they're hosting a free workshop for groups interested in the Communitybuilders fund next week. The workshop will be led by Tom King from Communitybuilders and will offer the chance to understand more about:

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Opportunity to occupy empty retail space

written by Josie on 12.11.09

We've just heard about an exciting opportunity being offered by Social Enterprise London (SEL) for groups to get access to disused retail units left vacant since the onset of the recession. SEL have been working closely w...

Property guide for community groups - some great case studies!

written by Anna on 23.09.09

A new resource has been published recently called “Building Community Assets” which we thought you might be interested in.

It looks at five social enterprises that have benefited from a £5m supp...

Momentum builds for community-led meanwhile use of empty buildings hit by recession

written by Josie on 17.08.09

Much has changed since our last post on the issue of meanwhile use of empty shop fronts, kindly provided by Crispin Carpenter of Michelmores Solicitors and originally published...

Doom and gloom for commercial property

written by Anna on 23.04.09

This post is a bit of a round up of news about the commercial property sector - lots of gloomy numbers around, but as many are saying - this is not necessarily and is creating some interesting opportunities!

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BREEAM and LEED coming together

written by Anna on 23.04.09

In a massive boost to the sustainability agenda BREEAM (the BRE Environmental Assesment Method) , Add a comment Permalink Share page Read full post
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