Our story
From an empty warehouse in 2014 to three businesses owned by their neighbours (sample).
From an empty warehouse
2014
The empty warehouse
Neighbours form a community interest company to rent the old brick warehouse on Canal Street (sample).
2015
The canteen opens
Six tables, one soup and two paid staff. The first customers are the builders next door.
2017
The first paid trainees
Four trainees join the canteen on twelve-week placements, paid from the first day.
2019
The bike workshop
The old loading bay becomes a bike workshop with three repair stands.
2022
Neighbours buy the building
A community share offer raises the price of the warehouse from 300 local members.
2024
The print room
A screen-printing bench and a risograph move into the upstairs room.
A warehouse that pays wages
We are a community interest company (sample), started in 2014 in an empty brick warehouse by the canal. Today the yard holds a canteen, a bike workshop, a print room and rooms for local groups.
We sell at fair prices and pay at least the real living wage. What is left over pays for the next paid traineeship, not for shareholders.
Own a share of the yard
One $25 share makes you a member with a vote. Buy it at the canteen till or send us a message.