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

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

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

In 2013 Roman Road was digitally invisible. The high street had no digital platform and most of the traders; businesses were not using social media; there was no Wikipedia entry, and an image search returning nothing about the local area, positive or otherwise. Not only was the high street attracting very little destination footfall but

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

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.