written by Julia
on 17.09.10
Want to improve the environmental sustainability of your organisation? Wondering if there is more to it than simply recycling paper? Need help putting your good ideas into practice?
The Ethical Property Foundation in partnership with Talk Action are running a practical and comprehensi...
written by Phil
on 02.08.10
My Community Space is a fantastic new resource offering voluntary and community groups a platform to find and advertise premises for hire.
Developed by Community Matters in conjunction with a number of key sector partners including the Ethical Property Found...
written by Phil
on 07.07.10
As part of the current fever for devolution, the asset transfer agenda is becoming ever more popular. The Government is encouraging local authorities to review their buildings and land for opportunities to transfer these assets to third parties, including charities and community groups.
written by Julia
on 22.06.10
The Ethical Property Foundation is recruiting for a quick thinking, pro-active Head of Finance and HR to work part-time alongside the Director to drive the Foundation’s finance and HR functions.
See our
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written by Julia
on 09.06.10
With cutbacks in resources and pressures to use property more effectively many local authorities are considering how best to deal with their heritage assets. Ranging from old town halls and schools to cemeteries and local landmarks, such buildings generate huge concern and bad publicity if they are ...
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...
written by Julia
on 09.06.10
North West Planning Aid in association with the Manchester Climate Forum presents....
“Climate Change and Planning: How to affect positive change through the Planning System”.
Tuesday 20th July 2010, 6-8pm.
North West Pl...
written by Julia
on 20.05.10
Aston-Mansfield are running a workshop on the 24th June, entitled 'Income Generation and Marketing for Community Buildings' to help you improve the reach and sustainability of your community.
The workshop is an opportunity for colleagues who manage c...
written by Julia
on 20.05.10
The Empty Shops Network has just released the Toolkit as part of the Our Place project. This toolkit is has been developed to help you in every stage of undertaking a Meanwhile Use project - from planning a budget, finding a space, marketing, managing risk all the way to packing up!
I...
written by Julia
on 20.05.10
Just a quick reminder about the Premises Roadshows for thr Third Sector in Hackney and Finchley on the 1st June and 27th July.
The roadshows aim to showcase the support tools and guidance that are available across London.
For more information, or to download a booking ...
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...
written by Josie
on 06.05.10
Throughout 2010 a series of Premises Roadshows will be held across London. These Roadshows will showcase a variety of support tools and guidance available for premises related matters for the Third Sector.
The first of the series will be held next Tuesday 11th May and there are a limi...
written by Julia
on 20.04.10
We want to develop a building, but...
• How can we make sure it benefits our community?
• How do we pay for it?
• How do we make sure it doesn’t distract us from what we normally do?
• How do we make sure the business plan will work?
• How ...
written by Anna
on 09.04.10
The Tories unveiled their plan for a “Big Society not Big Government” last week (
to read the document follow this link). While there are a number of things within thi...
written by Josie
on 08.04.10
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and leading sector publication Regeneration and Renewal Magazine have this week announced the opening of the Homes and Communities Awards 2010. This presitgious annual awards ceremony will showcase the very best in innovative and engaged regeneration proj...
written by Julia
on 31.03.10
Having just written the last blog entry about planning's central role in adapting to climate change, I have come across this blog, which reacted to this 'call to action' with mixed feelings - the author says 'Don't planners have enough on their plates already?'
Read the blog here:
written by Julia
on 31.03.10
I have just read a recent governmental report by the Environmental Audit Committee, 'Adapting to Climate Change', published on the 25th March.
The report says 'changes in our climate are now unavoidable' and recognises that planning and the built environment - both new developme...
written by Julia
on 24.03.10
We've seen that Action Planning are holding some interesting training, billed as 'an intensive one-day workshop for organisations preparing to raise funds for a major capital project.'
This one day workshop is specifically designed for the chief executives, directors and trustees of o...
written by Julia
on 24.03.10
written by Julia
on 12.03.10
And the last of this batch of blogs....
Friends of the Earth are running a training weekend called Power Up. It covers your legal rights to help improve your local community.
"Get the knowledge, confidence and contacts to
use the system and make a difference where you ...
written by Julia
on 12.03.10
Continuing this mass splurge of events info, here is a useful one for people interested in social enterprise:
Cultivating Social Enterprise, 17th March, in Mitcham. It's free!
Funding - Business support - Asset development - Free masterclasses
<...
written by Julia
on 12.03.10
The Women's Design Service are certainly busy at the moment. Here are some of their forthcoming events:
An interesting event coming up is the Free Voluntary and Community Sector Building Management Training on Wednesday 24th March. Here are all the d...
written by Julia
on 12.03.10
There's an event next Tuesday, 16th March run by the London Civic Forum, called Unlocking Community Assets; Exploring governance in asset transfer.
They say that asset transfer has been identified as one of the key ways for local authorities to strengthen and empower...
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:
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...
written by Anna
on 23.09.09
If you’ve been checking out our
news page you will have seen that the
Communitybuilders fund is now open as of the 7th September. This new fund will support charities and community groups by offering gran...
written by Anna
on 23.09.09
An exciting step in the asset transfer agenda was taken the other week as the first publicly owned building to be transferred into community ownership under the Government's £30m Community Assets Programme finally opened its doors.
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written by Anna
on 23.09.09
I was lucky enough to catch the end of the launch party for the 10:10 project the other week at the Tate Modern – this is a fantastic new project which aims to get the whole of the UK to cut our carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.
They are asking everyone as individuals, as part of a sc...
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...
written by Anna
on 23.09.09
Your brave Foundation reporter braved the hordes of Westminster last week to bring you news from the
DTA annual conference and came back full of inspiring stories and a real excitement for what DTA and their members are doing around the country. <...
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...
written by Anna
on 23.04.09
A round up of reactions to this years Budget - not a lot for either the commercial property sector or charities to get excited about.
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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written by Anna
on 23.04.09
In a massive boost to the sustainability agenda
BREEAM (the
BRE Environmental Assesment Method) ,
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written by Anna
on 23.04.09
Here's a great new site from CABE! They have just launched
Sustainable Cities - a new website resource which gives expert advice on planning, designing and managing a sustainable place. It cuts through the complexity with clear prior...
written by Anna
on 23.04.09
Written by
Crispin Carpenter of Michelmores LLP
As the recession deepens and
tenant insolvencies increase, landlords of ...
written by Anna
on 23.04.09
As the government continues in its attempts to improve the carbon footprint of UK homes and businesses through regulation, targets and taxation the Commons environmental audit commission is investigating the noticeable lack of progress in reducing the CO2 emissions in Whitehall.
As r...
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