Creating community

Worship Square is made for more than just work. In fact, we are building a diverse community, underpinned by a design that encourages social interactions inside the building and out.

Everyone welcome.

Supporting innovative start-ups to flourish, 10% of Worship Square will provide workspace for local businesses. Emerging businesses and scale-ups can make their home here also book on-demand desks, meeting rooms and flex space,supporting changing needs as they develop.

As part of the Worship Square community, start-ups have access to all amenities, including the communal terrace, fitness studio, ground-floor hub and building app.

Inspiring futures.

  • We want to inspire the next generation of STEM talent to explore the wide range of opportunities within the built environment. We work with local schools and youth groups creating projects and sharing knowledge that will help young people realise their potential.
  • In Spring 2022, our Worship Square site team invited children from the local school to help them spruce up the Square’s garden beds. Together they planted over 500 specimens from 22 different plant species.
  • Giving children somewhere fun to play when its raining, we recently installed over 3,400sq ft of indoor turf at the Lyceum School. We also held a competition to design a safety sign, with all entries earning a place on our hoarding outside the school.
  • We recently invited 20 female secondary school pupils to tour the Worship Square construction site. There, they heard from our design manager about plans for the Square’s transformation, and learned about different roles in the design and construction industry.

Rising up.

Keen to engage with the local community, we have formed a close relationship with Hackney-based youth initiative RISE 365 – a community interest group in Hackney, designed to reach, inspire, support and empower young people and the community. We created 14 paid work placements for RISE 365, tasking the team with introducing a new vending machine to the sire. They conducted market research that informed an enticing and profitable product selection. The team also designed the branding for the machine, and a management plan for keeping it well stocked.

Through our work with RISE 365, we have won the BPIC Network Community Project award – a built environment inclusion business working with industry organisations to improve ethnic minority representation as well as retention.

 

 

Find out more about Community
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Episode #1

Head behind the scenes with the teams at our co-working space, HubHub, and our UK HQ as they are split into teams and given an interesting challenge. Both teams worked hard to develop ideas that showcased the public square, ensuring that the overall activity and offering for the local people in the community remained at the heart of the project.

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Episode #2

They may not have been crowned champions of the presentation round, but Team Love are firmly in the spotlight at Worship Square on Day 1. Led by Daniel, Tristan and Renee Anne, fresh barista coffee, cakes and games were the draw, while messages of love were shared with passers-by. They may have been successful on the day, but some of their table tennis skills may still be in question…

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Episode #3

Riding high on their win in the presentation round, Team Crocs were feeling confident they would smash it at Worship Square. In prioritising men’s mental health, Team Crocs, led by Faith, Shante and Taliyah, sourced a mental health specialist, as well as providing tote bags with treats in. They even managed to bring Crosstown on board with their idea. Who doesn’t love doughnuts, right?

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Episode #4

Our fourth and final episode sees the RisingUp victors finally crowned at Worship Square – whilst Team Crocs had won the presentation round, the activation day was still to play for. Both Team Crocs and Team Love both held successful events in the square, working hard to create an impact with the community. However, this is a challenge, and we can only have one winner…

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