WCN Feb 2024 - VCS PREMISES

Premises can be vital to the work of Westminster’s charities and voluntary sector – whether renting the occasional room for meetings, hoping to grow enough to find a ‘base’, struggling to keep repairing damp, dilapidated spaces rented from the Council, balancing the essential income and costs of running venue hire with the need for space to deliver services – how do we manage? 

At this meeting, speakers will include: 

Ian McAuley, Strategic Asset Manager at Westminster City Council Corporate Property 

Liz Thorpe-Tracey from Happy Lizzy will explore how more empty buildings could be used and shared by community groups, like the new proposed Happy Hub – a temporary community space in Queens Park. 

Genevieve Peattie will introduce FiveFields, a flexible workspace for charities working with children, set up by the Westminster Foundation. 

Please take the time to feed in issues you would like to raise for the meeting here: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WestminsterVCSpremises