# Charity offers free property space to charities and voluntary groups

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/
- Published: 2014-03-12T17:03:22+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities looking for offices and storage space can now access a growing range
of workspaces for free, thanks to Centric Community Projects, a charity based in
Milton Keynes.**

The charity acts as a clearing hub for unused commercial property and makes it available
to a range of not-for-profit organisations.

## What property is available?

Centric Community Projects offers workspace, offices, storage, training/meeting 
rooms in various places across the UK to eligible organisations. There is no charge
to acquire them or use them.

## Advertisement

Organisations can use them for their charitable activities, whether that is admin,
office work, training, or storage.

## Who is eligible for free office space?

CCP’s space is available to:

 * Charities
 * Community Interest Companies
 * Sports clubs
 * Not-for-profit organisations
 * Community groups
 * Artists
 * Business startups by unemployed, disabled or disadvantaged people

## Why free?

CCP is able to provide these workspaces because landlords donate their empty commercial
offices and buildings to them, rather than leave them unused.

![Centric buildings - two images side by side](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2014/03/centric-buildings.jpg)

Two Centric buildings

## Really free?

CCP say that the spaces it offers are available on six-monthly rolling licences.
At the end of the initial six month licence another is granted if the building is
not required by the landlord for a commercial tenant.

There is no rent, rates or utility bills to pay when occupying a CCP venue. However,
organisations wishing to install services such as a phone line or wif-fi connection
would have to do so at their own cost.

New buildings are added to the list of those available throughout the year.

Contact Charlotte Russo, Charity Co-ordinator at [Centric Community Projects](http://www.centricprojects.org)
for details.

 * **[Centric Community Projects offers free office space for charity in Colchester](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/08/06/centric-offers-free-office-space-for-charity-in-colchester/)(
   6 August 2015)**

## Comments

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-182
- Published: 2014-04-01T17:10:00+01:00

Centric Projects have announced another property available:
 ————————– We have a
retail unit in Hinckley, Station Road, Leicestershire, LE10 1AW for Charities to
use FREE of charge.There is no rent, rates or utility bills to pay. You can use 
this as a shop, retail warehouse, professional and retail services, showrooms, domestic
hire shops, training, meeting rooms or for office use. This unit is \* Internal 
Width 24ft by 7.4m \* Internal Depth 34ft 10.3m \* Ground Floor 756 Sq ft 70.2 sq
m \* Lower Retail Storage 531sq ft 49.3 sq m \* Total 1287 sq ft 119.5sq m This 
is on a rolling three year rolling licence. If you are interested please call us
on 01908667750\.

### By: Ley Osm

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-183
- Published: 2017-05-20T09:55:00+01:00

Any space close to town? We want to host a donation based exhibition of art for 
young girls’s education from a village. I just stumble on this right now.

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-184
- Published: 2017-05-20T11:20:00+01:00

You’ll have to contact Centric Community Projects themselves to ask about this. 
They probably don’t check the comments under a news item from three years ago.

### By: Steve Johnson

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-3982
- Published: 2021-08-30T04:39:19+01:00

Hi all,

Looking for office space to store items we are donated to store and to sell via 
our website and events etc, We are also looking for space to do admin work to organise
events and projects for charities etc.

we are looking in around the Home counties ( Herts, Beds and Bucks). visit [http://www.supportustoday.co.uk](http://www.supportustoday.co.uk)
for more information,

\#Kind regards
 Steve & Bash

### By: Mian Ali

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-4015
- Published: 2021-10-04T07:55:44+01:00

HI ALL,
 We are a Community interest company Looking for a space in Manchester for
office . admin work to organise events for community and set up a studio to create
the awareness in various topics. kind Regards tv49news

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-4016
- Published: 2021-10-04T08:05:27+01:00

Just a reminder that posting your property requirements here almost certainly **
won’t** be spotted by Centric.

Do please contact them directly at

[http://www.centricprojects.org/](http://www.centricprojects.org/)

### By: John George Bailes

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-4577
- Published: 2023-12-20T06:58:48+00:00

Can you please help us find some storage space.
 I am writing on behalf of the Wolverton
Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Milton Keynes. We are a local musical group and we
need to store items, mainly musical scores and a few props for our shows. We are
looking for a space of about 4m x 4m x 3m high. Although anything dry, secure and
smaller than this would help us. As we are of charitable status we want to avoid
a commercial rate. We simply cannot afford it. John Bailes. On behalf of Wolverton
Gilbert and Sullivan Society 07746 125917 [johngbailes@hotmail.com](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/johngbailes@hotmail.com#comment-4577)

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/03/12/charity-offers-free-property-space-charities-voluntary-groups/#comment-4578
- Published: 2023-12-20T07:10:37+00:00

Thanks John. Commenting here won’t get seen by the organisation that offers the 
free property space. We (UK Fundraising) wrote the above as a news item \*about\*
the opportunity. We are not the company that offers free space. You’ll need to find
the link to them (we put a link in every one of our stories so that you can contact
the organisation mentioned), and then get in touch with them. Good luck!