Author name: Tabitha Stapely

Social Streets Studio in Bow

Social Streets opens Social Streets Studio at Mulberry UTC in East London

Social Streets launches Social Streets Studio at new Mulberry UTC in Bow, East London, as part of a pioneering partnership between a secondary school and a media company. Social Streets Studio will operate as a live business within school premises, offering its students unlimited access to training and work experience opportunities. Social Streets will publish

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Shopfronts in Globe Town, East London

Social Streets launches Social Scheme for High Streets Tower Hamlets pilot

Social Streets is launching a pilot of Social Scheme for High Streets for Tower Hamlets to provide digital presence, promotion and mentoring to local businesses. The pilot project will start with Roman Road with the aim of rolling out to other high streets. The Social Scheme for High Streets is designed for high streets and town centres

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Digital training camp for businesses in whitechapel

Social Streets delivers digital training to businesses in Whitechapel

Social Streets has been appointed by London Borough of Tower Hamlets to deliver a community-led digital training programme to improve the digital health of high street businesses. Following a successful pilot on Roman Road, Social Streets was selected by Tower Hamlets council to provide digital and business support to Whitechapel’s 120 businesses and 100 market

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Roman Road Digital training camp Roman Road

Social Streets delivers high street digital training camp pilot in Roman Road

Social Streets has been commissioned by London Borough of Tower Hamlets to run a pilot digital training camp for high street businesses on Roman Road in Bow, East London. Social Streets’ POW Digital Camp provided one-to-one training and mentoring sessions to nearly 100 shops and market traders and provided four hours of free mentoring to

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Belinda Bell of Cambridge Social Ventures and Tabitha Stapely of Social Streets at Future Business Centre

Social Streets speaks to Belinda Bell about Cambridge Social Ventures

Belinda Bell is what you call an early adopter. She was working in the field of social enterprise fifteen years ago before the term was even coined, or at least while it was being coined. Now Programme Director for Cambridge Social Ventures, Bell’s first job in the sector of social enterprises was at London Rebuilding Society, a community development

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Consultation of local high street businesses about digital marketing needs

Social Streets conducts consultation of high street businesses in Roman Road

Social Streets commissioned by Roman Road Trust to conduct consultation of over 200 local businesses and market traders about the support they most need. Many local business owners suffered from ‘consultation fatigue’ due to being subjected to a series of recent consultations. Many also felt reluctant to give their time as in the past findings

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Living in Bow photo and memory archive group

Social Streets launches image archive campaign for Bow, East London

Back in 2013, a search on the web for images of Roman Road and Bow returned zero results. A search of physical archives at the local archive library returned very little too. Overshadowed by the bigger trade centres of neighbouring hamlets Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Isle of Dogs and Limehouse, Bow has been poorly documented until now.

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