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Sources for office rental / purchasing, event venues and catering services.

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Accommodation & Offices:

Asset Transfer Unit
www.atu.org.uk
The Asset Transfer Unit helps to empower local people and organisations to transform land and buildings into vibrant community spaces whilst supporting the development of a thriving third sector. We are the leading provider of expert advice, guidance and support concerning the transfer of under-used land and buildings from the public sector to community ownership and management.

Avire
www.avire.co.uk
Avire is an innovative company which specialises in the short-term leasing and letting of business premises across the UK. We operate as an agency, matching prospective commercial tenants with suitable premises available for short-term lease.

BVSC (offices & hot desks)
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Professional office space in central Birmingham at sector friendly prices. Also access BVSC’s paid-for services such as payroll bureau, accountancy, training and conference facilities. Access to our Volunteer Centre and AskBVSC (advice on funding etc. for the third sector). Locate your organisation in the heart of the city – at the centre for voluntary action.

Custard Factory
www.custardfactory.com
The Custard Factory offers various types of business accommodation in a renovated factory complex and new buildings in Digbeth Birmingham.

i-Social Entrepreneurs [meeting space to rent]
www.i-se.co.uk
iSE is a key strategic and operational third sector development organisation working to start, develop and sustain social enterprises, social firms and voluntary and community sector organisations.

The Big Peg
www.thebigpeg.co.uk
The Big Peg is a 100,000 sq. ft. seven storey building in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. Home to a bustling working community of some 200 small arts, media and jewellery enterprises as well as many voluntary and community organisations, the Big Peg offers well designed flexible work spaces for a variety of creative activities at affordable rates.

3B Business Enterprise Agency
www.3b.org.uk
The 3b Business Village complex is a development of 13 purposes built industrial units. The business work shops are set in a landscaped environment incorporating a range of key design features.

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Building Services:

Jericho: Building Services
www.jcp.org.uk/construction1
Jericho has successfully completed a large portfolio of projects for a wide range of customers, many of whom are from the voluntary and community sector. They also carry out work for churches, faith-based organisations, schools and other public and private sector clients. For other office and building services visit their website.

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Catering Services:

Change Kitchen
www.changekitchen.co.uk
ChangeKitchen CIC is a social enterprise, registered as a community interest company. It was set up by the well-established Birmingham charity, SIFA Fireside, using the proven training and catering skills of Birgit Kehrer, the brains and the hands behind BSustained.

Jericho: Catering Services
www.jcp.org.uk/catering1
Preparation lunch buffets for up to 50 people and operate a café at our premises in Balsall Heath offering hot and cold food, snacks and beverages to the local community. Jericho focuses on sourcing fresh, local, high quality, seasonal ingredients.

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Free/Subsidised Goods & Services:

FreeCycle UK
www.uk.freecycle.org
The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Our goal is to keep usable items out of landfills.

Giving World Online
www.givingworldonline.com
Everyday millions of people and families struggle to afford basic life essentials like food, clothing, toiletries; thousands of UK charities and grassroots community groups struggle to deliver valuable services that positively touch the lives of millions. Giving World Online offers a solution for busy companies and organisations that do not have the time or resources to find people that could benefit from their surplus goods.

JumbeAID
www.jumbleaid.com
JumbleAID provides a web based service for everybody to be able to reuse “Stuff” that might otherwise end up in landfill and to raise cash for their chosen charity. JumbleAID brings together 2 key issues of the 21st century… Landfill and Charitable Giving.