Are you looking for a building to run a business or service from?
Then look no further than Harrow’s spacious and popular green spaces.
We’re offering a unique investment opportunity for tenants to bring our buildings back to life. These places could be a hub of local pride, bringing communities together to relax in a café, work hard in a fitness class, share stories in a creative forum, or introduce their pets to each other in a dog parlour!
In three rounds over the next year, we will be accepting imaginative, business orientated, community focused and commercially savvy proposals for our former bowls pavilions, scout huts, chapel offices, toilet blocks and more.
To pitch for one of the 15 available buildings, you need to be an established local organisation, group, or sole trader who wants to invest in the community with proposals which have our residents at their heart.
What are we looking for?
Your proposal should:
- Be durable, sustainable and financially viable in the medium and longer term
- Maximise opening hours and local user engagement
- Promote good mental and physical wellbeing
- Activate the building for wider community benefits
- Provide a sense of identity, ownership and pride to reduce levels of antisocial behaviour
- Demonstrate its commitment to diversity, sustainability, accessibility and inclusion.
Are you eligible to apply?
Essential criteria:
- Be a sole trader or partnership or other legal entity or constituted group
- Have been operating for a minimum of 2 years
- Have a Harrow postcode for a residential or business premises
- Be able to provide accounts for the past 2 years
- Be able to supply a financial forecast
- Have no outstanding business rate arrears
- Can supply two references, with at least one being business related