Achievements – ReSpace Projects

ReSpace has been busy maintaining and improving the system that made it all possible. Here is just some of what we have achieved:

Social Innovation Strategy

ReSpace and the Hive are featured in Sage Publishing’s Strategy: Theory and Practice textbook as an example of social innovation. Part of a feature of two pages and a picture of the Hive definition board, this is some of what they said:

“Social innovation can also be about bringing existing resources together in innovative ways. ReSpace Projects is an independent, voluntary and self-funded organisation that helps to fight homelessness and provide community facilities in the UK by facilitating rental agreements for community use with landlords of unused buildings. The innovation by ReSpace Projects was not so much creating anything new as connecting existing resources in new ways.”

You can get your hands on a copy here: uk.sagepub.com

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Circular Economy Principles

We are listed as delivery partners in the London Waste and Recycling Board’s Route Map to a Circular Economy under the category of “Buildings”. Part of a larger to strategy to re-use much more of London’s waste, we are proud to be held up as an example of good practice – but we know there is still a long way to go!

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Social Enterprise Hackney

Invited to speak about the resilience of small organisations at the inauguration of Hackney as a Social Enterprise borough. ReSpace are proud to have been described as “leaders” by the Chief Exec of Social Enterprise UK – Peter Holbrook.

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Royal Docks Cultural Partnership

Invited by the GLA in an advisory role to identify and support assets of culture and innovation in their wider development plans for the Royal Docks area of Newham. This is a multi-billion pound development and our hope is to help them introduce systems and regulation to ensure that the cultural aspect of the development took into account local people’s needs.

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Citizenship – The Challenge

ReSpace are super proud to have partnered with NCS The Challenge to deliver citizenship education for youths from local schools. Their program to integrate and normalize social good as part of daily life and to encourage their participants to volunteer for local organsations fits perfectly with our ethics and we hosted groups every summer giving them workshops in music, video and art. The kids provided much needed inspiration to the crew of the Hive too!

You can watch a video made by one of the groups about the Hive:

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ReSpace and the BBC

The Hive became the focus of a BBC Radio 4 documentary, ‘A Waste of Space’, where presenter and Daily Mail writer, Harriet Sergeant described ReSpace as “a solution to homelessness” after spending a few days and a night with us.

The documentary covers other uses of space: you can hear it here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076mllv

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Hive Impact Report

One year on, we are pleased to release a Hive Dalston Impact Report. Featuring testimonials, statistics and pictures – our report documents just some of the benefits that the Hive model delivered.

“The Hive was a project like few others – part home, part venue, part social club, part festival – it constantly confounded expectations… it was a hub, a beacon and an inspiration.”

Starting with a 6 month contract and an idea, we had no clue that 3 and a half years later we would be releasing a report detailing just a small proportion of the amazing things that happened at the Hive. As well as releasing the new Arkhive website – telling the story chronologically, we are proud to release the Hive Impact Report… click on the image to see it.

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Other highlights include:

ReSpace has been endorsed by Mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville

Our work was recognised in a statement by RIBA

At the other end of the scale, we were endorsed by perhaps London’s most active and notorious squat crew who have previously made headlines for taking over empty mansions in Belgravia. For us, this is a major success, which indicates that mindsets are changing and that our credibility is perceived at all levels of society.

ReSpace was invited to represent Hackney in the second event organised by Oslo city council – Hackney meets Oslo, which celebrated social innovation in the two metropolitan areas. We were proud to present to an audience of the top 50 social enterprises in those areas.

We were invited to the panel to interview for Hackney cooperative Developments new Director of Social Business. We offer our congratulations to the successful candidate!

ReSpace was nominated by the Chair of the LFESC to be offered space by the fire service to develop projects. We held community consultations on behalf of developers U+I at the Lambeth fire station project and much of our proposal for the space was implemented by U+I.

ReSpace also inspired large developer firm, Omved – who have announced online that they will be pursuing the community garden proposed by ReSpace Projects, after years of making enemies in the local community in Highgate.

We were invited to present at a video conference with fourteen National Lottery consultants, looking to upgrade their funding models to improve their ability to provide for good causes.

ReSpace was invited to contribute to the London Plan by the Environment committee.

As a result of our focus on holistic systems, ReSpace Projects was asked to speak at the respected Sci-Art-Met conference about holistic health, by sector leaders, Orassy.

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