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We are developing a new exciting project called Design Bank.
Design Bank will offer workshops in design, upcycling, and basic DIY. We’ll use the principles of regular banking, but with a twist: upcycled items of furniture and the time people put into the project are the currency. So when people sign up for workshops they learn the art of upcycling and also build credits towards their time-bank account. Time credits or cash can then be used to buy items from the project.
As an extension of the project and in partnership with Broadway Homelessness Support, we’ll be using Design Bank to signpost beneficiaries to a Level 2 Award in Interior Design Skills from the National Open College Network. Taught by an accredited tutor, graduates learn the basics in creating a warm and welcoming designed space. Graduates will work with PMI designers and a recently-housed Broadway client, with a £200 budget to redesign a room in their flat. Students’ design consultations help people put down roots, turn a house into a home and sustain their.
Promotional Design Bank Presentation
NEWS
An interview with Stacey Shepperd a freelance writer, journalist, blogger and editor. She is a contributor for a number of design and interiors publications and websites including Designer Kitchen & Bathroom Magazine, Heart Home Magazine, WAN Interiors + Design and Freshome.com.
A feature in House of Locations a service minded location agency representing unique residential and commercial properties of all kinds in the UK. Check out our inspiring locations and let the creativity flow.
http://www.houseoflocations.com/houseblog/
UKTV Home’s, Daniel Hill, TV Presenter for The New Reclaimers sleeps rough with Petit Miracle Interiors.
21 December, 2011 – On Tuesday 24 December, Elisicia Moore of Petit Miracle Interiors and Daniel Hill, TV presenter for The New Reclaimers are sleeping rough in London to bring awareness to rough sleeping. Petit Miracle Interiors Ltd is a registered charity supporting homeless people into training and work experience opportunities.
http://www.prlog.org/11755981-uktv-homes-new-reclaimer-daniel-hill-rough-sleeping-christmas-eve.html
3Space shortlists Petit Miracle’s for the Highstreet Hijack Competition. 3Space is an innovative new charity which makes empty properties around the UK available for use by charities, community groups, social enterprises and other non-profit organisations.
An interview with Joe Peach | This Big City an award winning sustainable cities blog covering innovations in urban design, architecture, culture, technology, transport and the bicycle. Launched in September 2009 by Joe Peach, This Big City now features content from urbanism writers and organisations all over the world, and publishes in both English and Chinese.
Joe talks to Elisicia Moore, CEO Petit Miracle Interiors, Using Empty Buildings in Cities to Teach New Skills to the Long-term Unemployed.
http://thisbigcity.net/using-empty-buildings-cities-teach-new-skills-long-term-unemployed/
Petit Miracle Interiors is excited to be working with Business Action on Homelessness and is a referring agency for the Ready for Work Programme. This initiative gives homeless clients the opportunity to (re)enter the job market through an innovative programme of training, work placements and post-placement support. In London in the past year for example we have successfully helped 93 people secure work placements with 56% gaining employment as a result.