Real estate: a new type of capitalism

Guy Battle, CEO of the Social Value Portal gave his keynote presentation on how we move our thinking forward to create social value rather than just mitigate negative impact, and what do the true results of a considered social strategy look like for investors. 

Meet our new charity partner of the year

We’re proud to announce our new partnership with UK Men’s Sheds Association, the support body for Men’s Sheds across the UK.

The Association promotes the development Men’s Sheds through start up guidance, training, and networking.

We’ll be working with the charity to provide access to vacant units for new sheds, encouraging pop-up/come and try it sessions across our centres. We’re committing our real estate skills to provide practical support in areas including reviewing property leases, basic organisational accountancy and leadership/succession planning, through our network and our teams’ voluntary time.

Together we’ll build on the incredible growth the organisation has already achieved and get Men’s Sheds and the unique support they provide into even more locations. Today there are over 600 ‘Sheds’, with a further 150 or more in planning at any one time – the current rate of growth is between six and nine a month.