We are excited to announce that Small Works Hackney will be pioneering in London the participatory and global art event ‘The Big Laundry‘ (translation from french ‘La grande lessive’) on Regent Estate on March 28 & 29. And you are all invited to be part of it! WHAT? […] more »
As described in a recent Working Paper by the Third Sector Research Centre, third sector organisations are making more and more of an effort to measure their impact on individuals, communities and society as a whole. Presumably, as is suggested in the Working Paper, this is a result of an […] more »
Breaking news: we have just received a major grant from the SIB Group. DCLG Minister Stephen Williams announced the names of the 17 successful recipients of the Community Ownership & Management of Assets Capital Grant today, who will receive capital investments totalling just over £5m for ambitious and innovative ideas […] more »
Our lovely Small Works Hackney members, The London orchard project, are on a mission to plant the first orchard on Regent Estate on this Saturday February 1st 2014 . And they need your help! Join this opportunity to learn about how to care for fruit trees and contribute to make […] more »
Since September 2013, Clear Village has been working with the Friends of Roxton Road Parks (FoRPP) to revitalize a small network of downtown parks in Toronto, Canada. FoRPP aims to improve the parks’ infrastructure and programming for the benefit of local area residents, but the group also has broader objectives: […] more »
Before the well-deserved end-of-the-year holiday all the Workshop 44 crew celebrated winter at the Workshop with home-made mulled cider cooked by Lewis from the London Orchard Project, and some craft activities for kids and parents! A few residents from Regent Estate joined us for the celebration. Kids and grown-ups played […] more »
SISK are an Irish construction company, who are involved in building 25 new affordable homes for Peabody and in the run up to Christmas they held an event at Small Works Victoria where they donated handcrafted timber toys to six children. This was the first time that Sisk has donated […] more »
Clear Village has won an honourable mention in the “Brutalist Facelift’ competition with a proposal to make a series of post-war communist housing blocks in Latvia ‘invisible’ with a mirrored facade. The Brutalist Facelift competition, part of the Ghost Town Challenge organised by Homemade Dessert, asked participants to propose facade […] more »
To launch the Voices series, I would like to discuss three concepts which lie at the heart of what we’re trying to achieve at Clear Village. They are, in a sense, the DNA of our organisation. I believe that they are also part of a wider trend in placemaking and […] more »