Workshop: Starting Up a Community Reuse and Resource Centre

Making Ourselves Unstoppable: Overcoming the Challenges

10 to 4pm, 13^th July, 2011 Bricks and Bread, Aldershot

This one-day interactive workshop  is for community activists and entrepreneurs starting-up a Community Reuse and Resource Centre.  The day is designed to give you expert practical advice  and the chance to work through the issues you face with people who’ve done it before.  The morning will start with  a tour of a working example – the Bricks and Bread  Sustainable Living Centre  http://www.bricksandbread.com/ with founder Trudy Thompson.  This will be followed by a workshop on the challenges in  reuse, repair, remanufacture and retraining with Kelvin Hughes who set up the Newbury Community Resource Centre.   In the afternoon there will be question and answer sessions on the issues you face such as making reuse pay its way, choosing the right business structure,  getting the logistics right and  partnering with local authorities.  We’ll be running  “surgery” sessions with advisors on hand to answer your individual questions with tailored advice.  So you’ll leave with  answers to the issues you face in setting up your social enterprise  and a clear idea of next steps.  You’ll also able to build your own support network ,  link into the  community resource networks FRN & LCRN and gain an understanding of  the social franchise opportunities with Bricks and Bread.

Organised by Local United http://www.localunited.net/and Bioregional http://www.bioregional.com/.