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📣 B Corp Useful Insights Part 2 As B Corp Month continues, I thought it helpful to share some more detail around how B Corp certification supports our work in retail leasing and creating places that are busy and active. We have curated every aspect of Lower Stable Street in King's Cross, on behalf of our client Argent LLP, since 2018. Our original pitch was to create a place that supports new, independent, local, micro businesses; the work we've done since to achieve this is a significant part of our B Corp certification. It is worth noting that it is essential to have an engaged client like Argent LLP to do this kind of work, and we’re grateful to them for backing us and sharing our values. Lower Stable Street in King's Cross has become an incubator for micro businesses, with accessible, low-risk licenses that make it easy for people to start up. We're proud to celebrate a diverse street that is constantly evolving, with three of our tenants progressing to larger units within the King's Cross Estate in the last two years. In response to the pandemic, we created an outdoor market on Lower Stable Street that has provided even more opportunities for micro businesses and individuals to try something out. Since 2021, we have had over 200 traders through the market, and it continues to grow and embrace new ideas. We've even seen stallholders move on to bricks and mortar elsewhere, as well as into other more permanent locations within King's Cross - visit Matchado in Granary Square next time you're there! Our commitment to diversity is a core value, and we're proud to say that at least 50% of our retailers and stallholders are from underrepresented groups. We hold ourselves accountable to this standard and our B Corp certification ensures that we continue to do so. 🔔 Next Post: How our work in art and culture supports and reflects our B Corp values. If you’d like to find out more about our work to support local, independent business have a look at our website and please get in touch: https://www.a-r-c-s.co/

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Excellent analysis of the challenges for downtown D.C. as it adjusts to an emptying urban core. "In the era of remote work, a more apt metric of employment is “job activity,” which adjusts employment figures to account for where the work takes place.  Measured this way, employment in the region has become increasingly sprawled, with an emptying core (the District) and swelling donut (suburbia and exurbia). For example, the District’s share of workers in business and financial occupations in the metro region declined from 30 percent in 2019 to 21 percent post-pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, 54 percent of the region’s lawyers worked in D.C. Post pandemic, that share is 37 percent. Importantly, service sector jobs have followed remote workers, reducing the District’s share in employment in arts, entertainment, media, food prep and service, and personal care and service occupations." Applies directly to many other downtowns. Adeeb Khan D.C. Policy Center

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Networking is the key to a successful business

Some fabulous insights here from Rose Marley CEO of Co-operatives UK on Sky as CUK prepares their Manifesto to grow the number of #coops and #mutuals as we head towards the #generalelection. Although the #coop sector is more resilient than shareholder-owned businesses, one of the biggest hurdles to growing the sector is access to finance/capital. Most investors want to maximise their financial returns, but as member-owned businesses, #coops care about #people and #community as well as #profit. Thanks Rose!

"The thing is about mutuals and cooperatives is that because they are owned and controlled by their members, this resilience comes from the decision making process. It's not driven by the need to get private, individual or shareholder profit, it's driven by the needs of the customers and members they serve." 👏 A great explanation about what makes us different. In case you missed it, watch the full video below 👇