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May 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Summer is the season for empty shops

Maybe it's because the news is slow or maybe it's because the amount of projects in empty shops is rocketing. There is so much in the news at the moment celebrating the impact of temporary uses for empty retail space all over the UK.

I've tried to compile a list of articles that have been released recently to save you the hassle.

Newport, Wales - New life for… Continue

Added by Jessica Courtney Bennett on May 26, 2010 at 1:17pm — 1 Comment

Beautiful Daughters at 253 Hoxton Street

Come and see the Beautiful Daughters exhibition and play at 253 Hoxton Street on Thursday 27th May. The day will have workshops for young women in Hackney to learn more about accessing skills and employment advise. At 17.00 Hoxton Street will host the award winning beautiful daughters play where key partners will network and discuss the very real issues facing young women in the UK.

Celebrate Beautiful Daughters and meet the hard working team behind the pilot day.

253 Hoxton… Continue

Added by Jessica Courtney Bennett on May 26, 2010 at 11:08am — No Comments

Help Keep NOISELAB Open!

Initially funded for 6 months the NOISELAB is now due to close towards the end of May 2010. We’ve got the lease until November 2010 and we want it to

remain open full time until we have to say good–bye properly.

We’ve already had some amazing support, please sign this petition…

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Added by Vic on May 17, 2010 at 10:44am — 1 Comment

Empty Shops Toolkit now available

Building on the earlier Empty Shops Workbook, produced with support from the Meanwhile Project, the Empty Shops Network were commissioned by the MLA to produce a more detailed resource, incorporating further evidence from the past year including two MLA-funded pilot projects in empty shops. Well, here it is - the massive but very practical… Continue

Added by Dan Thompson on May 14, 2010 at 1:58pm — No Comments

Meanwhile Project reopens the House of Hastings to community and art projects

Meanwhile space reopens the House of Hastings, Queens Road, to local people with big ideas. The project is being funded as part of a national campaign to reopen closed

spaces to the local people. The House of Hastings, which has remained empty

since local business Thorcraft left the site 3 years ago, has long had a

negative impact on Queens…

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Added by Jessica Courtney Bennett on May 13, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

The People's Supermarket, London. Follow us....

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

Added by David Barrie on May 8, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

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