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Moving

Getting back up to speed

We are enjoying being in our new location on the second floor of Middleton Shopping centre, and each day we are seeing new visitors come along and want to know more about what we do and what the new place is like. Feel free to call in and have a

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Move update – January 2017

We have completed our move out of our premises at the Cromer Mill on Hilton Fold Lane, and are now setting busy up our new base on the second floor of Middleton Shopping Centre. The move took us a bit longer than expected due to the holidays so we are

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Our early Christmas present – a new home

After a long time searching and much negotiating we can finally confirm that the Lighthouse Project and Middleton Central Foodbank have a new place to call home. With the support of the Middleton Shopping Centre management team we have been able to negotiate a short-term lease to take space on

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Moving update & Christmas opening

We are preparing for our second move of premises this year, and this will hopefully start in the next few weeks. We are unfortunately still not able to tell you where we are going just yet as the legal arrangements are ongoing, but suffice to say it will involve us moving

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A month’s grace to help property search

Last week we reported that the Lighthouse Project would have to close its activities at Cromer Mill by 12th November, however in last minute discussions with the owners, Pin Property Consultancy, we have been given a breathing space of one month to sort out our alternative accommodation options. Obviously there is

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Sign our petition of support 2016

Yet again the Lighthouse Project finds itself having to move as the landlords want to use the Cromer Mill site for their own plans. Alternative accommodation is proving difficult to find so to help us we are raising awareness of our need and gathering together an online petition of support so we can tell our story

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Premises plea – BBC Radio Manchester

BBC Radio Manchester – News for the journey home As part of our ongoing challenge to find a permanent base for the Lighthouse Project we got back in touch with BBC Radio Manchester as a follow up to the feature that they did on us in December 2015 when we

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Where Next – our search for a permanent base continues

Where will the next home of the Lighthouse Project be? Having just got settled into our temporary location here at the Cromer Mill on Hilton Fold Lane we are facing the prospect of having to ‘up sticks’ and look for new premises, as yet again we find our building owners plan to redevelop

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Places we’ve already looked at

Regarding our proposed relocation we have already looked at a number of local properties and many obvious ones are not suitable due to them being: * too small, * in poor condition or * too far away from the town centre. We currently use 10,200 sqft and need at least

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Lighthouse Project Radio Manchester Interview

BBC Radio Manchester – Breakfast show interview We recently sent details of our property plight to BBC Radio Manchester as part of our media campaign to find a new town centre based home for Inspire Middleton, the Lighthouse Project, Middleton Central Foodbank and Middleton Dial. We were invited onto the

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Sign our petition of Support

Many people have asked us this week “How are we getting on with your search for a new home?”, and the answer is we are still looking and are exploring a couple of potential options. In response to the press release we circulated about our situation local Township Councillor Chris

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We’ve been asked to move out

The new owners of the Warwick Mill have asked us to move out and find a new home. The news came last month as the landlord served Inspire Middleton with a notice to quit and vacate the building before February next year. The news wasn’t a shock as we were

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