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reported clearly and honestly to stakeholders”.
April 2017
Tenant Newsletter
Woman of the Year 2017
Annual General Meeting
Congratulations to Eden Habtemichael, Women’s Services
Coordinator
at our
Oxford Company
based Tenant
The
2016 Ethical
Property
AGMRefugee
will takeResource,
place at
who hason
won
the prestigious
on the Move
Award,
4.00pm
Tuesday
8th MarchWomen
at The Station
in Bristol.
We will be
Woman of the
2017. The
national
are
organised
presenting
ourYear
ambitious
plans
for the awards
future as
well
as reflecting
by Migrants
Organise
andthe
United
Nations
on
the positive
progress
company
hasHigh
madeCommissioner
over the past
for
Refugees
(UNHCR)
to
recognise
and
celebrate
year. It would be great to see as many of you thereinspirational
as possible
leadership
contribution
from
migrant
refugee women
and
furtherand
information
will be
sent
to youand
soon.
to UK society. See her video here.
To confirm your attendance at this event, please visit
Kate Hood, Director of Refugee Resource,
said: “We are
www.ethicalproperty.co.uk/agm2016.
Alternatively,
please return
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of Eden form
- this which
award will
recognises
your
postalproud
confirmation
be sent the
to you along
outstanding
she
has provided
and the progress
with
a copy ofleadership
the Annual
Report
in February.
that she and the members of the women’s group at Refugee
Resource have made.”
Company performance
Brand New!
Chris Boardman, MBE, has become Re~Cycle’s first Patron.
Re~Cycle is a charity that rescues unwanted bikes from the
UK and ships them to Africa. Chris said: “I am delighted and
honoured... It’s an incredible charity that helps so many
people. A total of 87,000 bikes have already been delivered.”
To find out how to donate your bike visit: www.re-cycle.org.
The Institute of Chartered Foresters have two new members
of staff working from their Bristol Office; Andy Lederer
(Development Director) and Dr Rob Hawkins (Technical
Officer). It was International Day of Forests on 21st March –
check out their videos on the energising effects of forests on
the ICF YouTube channel.
Agile Collective
It has been a very exciting and productive year for the company. We have seen positive increases in both our operating profits and
Agile Collective, who moved into The Old Music Hall, Oxford
portfolio values resulting in a 27% increase in Net Asset Value. Average occupancy throughout the year was almost 96% and our
in August last year, are a versatile team of 12 designers
centres supported almost 900 organisations in total, including groups who used our meeting and events facilities. At the same time we
and developers that make websites for socially positive
are very pleased that tenant satisfaction also
organisations, charities, NGOs, social enterprises and
improved which is testament to the hard work
educational institutions.
of our Property Teams. More information and
analysis will be available in the Annual Report.
As a cooperative and a socially minded company they make
every effort to contribute to their communities, minimise their
environmental impact and ensure sustainability in their work
practices.
Our properties
ZED Books
ZED has teamed up with Friends of the Earth to create an
engaging collection of works from the leading lights of the
women’s rights and environmental movements. Why Women
Will Save the Planet demonstrates that the fight for women’s
empowerment should be an integral part of the struggle for a
sustainable society.
The latest edition of Who Really Feeds the World from Vandana
Shiva, today’s most iconic activist and environmental thinker,
offers a radical new vision for global food production in an
increasingly crowded and hungry world.
Visit Zed Book’s new website and use your code
ETHICALPROPERTY at the checkout for 40% off selected
books.
Some of their recently launched sites include Forest 500,
WeInternational
have made significant
progress
on ourMultilingualism,
plans to recycle parts
Land Coalition,
Creative
of our
portfolio
and
to
replace
some
buildings
with larger
and
University of London Institute in Paris, International
Planned
more
efficient
centres.
This
strategy
should
make
a
real
difference
Parenthood Foundation and Sands Stillbirth & neonatal death
to our
environmental performance, the quality of our space and
charity.
the numbers of groups we can house. We are in the process of
selling Development House (left) and our Archway property and
most significantly have secured a new building in East London
which will provide a home to the organisations currently in
Development House. We’ll have more information about this new
project later this year.
Elsewhere, our two newest properties - St Pauls Learning Centre
in Bristol and Hastings House in Cardiff - are both now staffed and
progressing well. Of particular note is the new community café
(see Tenant news, overleaf ) that is now open at St Pauls.
Consortium
Tenant newsfor Street Children
Hidden Savings
Rainbow Trust’s new report, Hidden Savings, shows their vital
International Day for Street Children is on 12th April 2017, and
and
support
helps the
whole
families
TheTenants
Share Issue
is now closed
and inChildren
total we raised
£1.75m.
Whilst thisemotional
is less than
wepractical
had hoped
for it not
has only
improved
liquidity
onto
our
at Consortium
for Street
are calling
on as
cope
but also
health
socialwith
care some
system at
the secondary
market
and has introduced
substantial
thebetter
company.
It hassaves
also the
resulted
inand
dialogue
many
people and
organisations
as possiblesome
to work
togetherinvestors to
million
eachour
year.
institutional
who
may provide
further capitalchildren
in the mediumleast
term.£2
If you
missed
Share Issue or would like to buy more
to
help makeinvestors
the biggest
impact
for street-connected
shares you
can do so on the secondary market through Ethex via www.ethex.org.uk.
around
the world.
Some of these savings are immediate and specific, like enabling
families to attend appointments they might otherwise miss,
Street-connected children have the same rights as any other
where as others are potential longer-term savings, like support
child under the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
which helps families avoid crisis situations.
However, Governments around the world claim to be unable
to prevent the daily, sometimes violent, violations of each of
Despite this, only 3% of their funding comes from state sources –
these rights.
equivalent to 11 days of funding a year.
As
mentioned,
the
St
Pauls
Learning
Centre
Café
in
Bristol
is
now
Join them by making a pledge to stand with street children, to
Add your name to their letter to help change this!
open and
being
run by
Therights.
Surplus Supper Club, a not-for-profit
enable
them
to claim
their
initiative that provide affordable meals from fresh and in-date
food surplus donations. The Surplus Supper Club was founded
three years ago as part of the charity FareShare Southwest, and all
profits from their activities go straight back into the charity.
InsightShare, tenants at The Old Music Hall, welcome you to join
their intensive and rigorous six-day course for those keen to
practice and deepen facilitation skills while learning the basics of
participatory video. In March 2016 they will host the 26th edition
of this training course. For more information, please visit
events we have ever put on, and as ever, the people of Sheffield
www.insightshare.org.
- gay and heterosexual, young and old - turned out in their
Tenant news
LGBT+ History Month 2017
International
Senior attended
Lawyers Project-UK
one of
newest
Hundreds
of people
events lastare
month
to our
celebrate
tenants, moved
into Development
House
in September.
They
diversity
in Sheffield
marking the end
of this
year’s Lesbian,
are aBisexual
small organisation
that provide
high
quality
law-related
Gay,
and Transgender
(LGBT+)
History
Month.
Talks,
assistance
building and
theyorganised
undertake
films,
musicand
andcapacity
other celebrations
were
byprojects
The
in Economic
Social
Development,
Civil Society
Sheena
Amosand
Youth
Trust,
SAYiT, with support
fromSpace
other
and Vulnerable
other
sectors. of
For
more
LGBT+
and alliedCommunities
organisationsamong
such as
The Friends
Edward
information, please visit www.islp.org.
Carpenter.
hundreds.”
Steve Slack, CEO of SAYiT our Tenants at Scotia Works, who
work with young LGBT+ people, and offer diversity and
equality training, said:
“We were overwhelmed by the turnout over the weekend. This
year was particularly pertinent because we were celebrating
the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male
homosexuality. This was one of the biggest history month
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The Ethical Property Company supports a wide range of charities, social enterprises and small local organisations through
the provision of modern, affordable and flexible workspace. We currently own or manage 23 Centres in England and Scotland
as well as having interests in sister companies in Australia, Belgium and France. All Ethical Property Centres are managed to
minimise energy use, waste, car travel and the use of harmful materials.
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