Saturday November 13th - we search West Ham, Plaistow and Canning Town.

Many thanks indeed to those brave souls who ventured out on our cycle search across Tower Hamlets last Saturday. Please don't forget to post your finds to Carlita! And to all, a date for your diaries, Saturday November 13, when we hope to search West Ham, Plaistow and Canning Town.

saturday 25th September - empty property hunt.

Dear members,

Phoenix are looking for volunteers for a couple of hours to help in finding empty buildings across Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Islington. As some of you will be aware, we urgently need up to date information about empty buildings so that we can look into their suitability for both short life and Housing Plus project acquisition.

To this end, we are looking for Phoenix members to come along for a couple of hours on Saturday 25th September meeting at 12noon in Bethnal green. All volunteers will be allocated a geographical area to research and then everyone will meet up after a couple of hours and share the property information that they found out.



If you are keen to take part, then please can you drop either me or Carolyn a quick email.



If you are unable to volunteer but are aware of empty buildings in your area, please do contact me and let me know.



Best wishes





Carlita

Housing Plus Development Manager
Phoenix Housing Co-operative
Oxford House
Derbyshire Street
E26HG

Phoenix is recruiting!

'HOUSING PLUS' DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
FULL TIME: £32,000 pa (neg) – 1 year rolling contract

Phoenix Housing Co-operative is a Social Landlord in East London housing single people on low income.

We are looking for a development manager with responsibility for securing affordable housing for single people via Phoenix’s innovative 'Housing Plus' scheme; turning empty properties into homes via work experience and self-help projects.

This is a key strategic and operational role requiring a person with strong partnership building, fundraising, project management and housing development skills.

Contact mail@phoenixhousing.co.uk for an application pack.
Closing date: 12 April 2010

special request

Friday morning and Jonnie Walker (sometime development committee member) is in the office writing an article for the newsletter on energy efficiency. Jiska is doing a poster and colour insert for the newsletter calling on member to volunteers more - as she points out phoenix EXISTS because of the volunteering of the members.

Meanwhile it's thursday afternoon and longtime co-op member Stefan is volunteering, working on window frames and guttering (and looking at the stars) at Durlston Road.

The photos on this page show just one weeks volunteering by the members. Come on down.

skills transfer

Hi All another batch of photos. With Loiri changing a tap amongst other things.- Chris B.

Loiri(?) changing a tap.
"Erm. Does this look right to you Chris? I think it needs changing."

The great thing about volunteering is that you get to learn things - useful things that will save you money with plumbers later on in life or even get you paid.

whose car is that anyway?

Chris has asked about transporting tools and materials between the jobs (because if Chris's partner sees this photo showing what he's been doing with the car he's in big trouble). If he's moving between properties 1-2 a week this obviously means the tools have got to be moved somehow - which will mean timetabling Johnnie and the work van to do it. Another issue is picking up the materials to do the job (like the huge quantities of loft insulation seems above) - obviously many builders merchants deliver but all this means unproductive time and delay waiting for deliveries and for tools to be moved and also Johnnie/Colin won't have use of the van then etc.

Anybody got a cunning plan?

Spaceman (whatever happened to Babylon Zoo)

Never mind babylon Zoo - What happened to altern8?



They seem to be raving in a rather small barn.




I tell a lie - Chris and the volunteers are installing loft insulation in the phoenix owned properties to keep us nice and toasty over winter.
Hi All (another batch of photos) - Chris B.
These photos were taken on the 19th January - I think round Durlston Rd. Anybody know for sure?