Thread by @RTrevalyan

I started a list of activities & enterprises that could (and in some places do) live in our high streets & in our neighbourhoods post-pandemic. Add your ideas? #buildbackbetter

>> Community kitchens, shared workspaces, sports centres, local markets, urban farms, makerspaces 1/

Performance spaces & music venues, digital manufacturing hubs, steam rooms/saunas, pay-as-you-feel cafes, ecological & wild spaces, orchards, yoga & meditation spaces, electronics & textile repair hubs, ceramics spaces, music studios, libraries of things / tool libraries 2/

Events spaces, bulk-buy cooperatives / store cupboards, clothes rental services, wood- & metal-working workshops, interactive art galleries & museums, spiritual centres, affordable housing hubs, open access bike repair, reading rooms, scrap stores, public living rooms 3/

Theatres, public bees, cinemas, dance studios, second-hand shops, toy libraries, enterprise incubators, libraries, community greenhouses, local compost, electric car rental, free bikes, physical & mental therapies, laundrettes, remakeries, intergenerational housing 4/

Indoor & outdoor play spaces, parent-led childcare cooperatives, digital learning centres & code clubs, GP surgeries, pharmacies, cornershops, laundrettes...

And what would it take to unlock all this?
1. Easy access to affordable space (as blog says 👇)
2. Affordable, patient set-up capital
3. A local incubator to support these projects into life
4. What else?

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