Image by Haarala Hamilton Photography - Liz and Max (Members of TPS)

Since the support of Meanwhile Space CIC in early 2010, The People's Supermarket has…

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In no small part due to the initial support of Meanwhile Project and the DTA, The People's Supermarket remains up, running and thriving at Lamb's Conduit Street in Camden, London - and just wanted to update the home team on our performance.

Some headlines:

- we now have over 305…

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Eight weeks old, 250 members and growing, just wanted you to be the first to know that this week the first of sixteen new employees has started working at The People's Supermarket. They have a job for six months, 25hrs/week, mentored by social enterprise Striding Out, under the Future Jobs Fund, administered by Social Enterprise London in a programme… Continue

This is a (slightly) spooky image of an empty shop premises in Camden, London. It's about to become the location of The People's Supermarket, a new community owned, co-operative shop that will open in just a few weeks time. (After a year and a half planning our start-up, we signed the lease last week!) The new social enterprise is occupying a premises that has been empty for years. We are a… Continue

Sorry for clumsy PDF upload but attached to this post is an article from a recent supplement to property magazine Estates Gazette ('Centre Retailing 2010') that quotes some useful research by property advisors Colliers CRE that brings dimension to why some areas, rather than others, suffer retail voids. (esp useful to those trying to occupy spaces in London and finding it tricky! er, like me!).



Headlines:



- in some parts of the country, vacancy rates are not as high as the… Continue