Good Causes

HOW WE HELP GOOD CAUSES…

Put succinctly, we help you find suitable empty premises for your needs to use rent-free, with business rates covered, using an easy to terminate tenancy/licence agreement. The landlord often pays your utilities as well.

ASTOP’s service and advice for good causes is free

The idea is simple, low risk, legal and proven. Charities and other good causes occupying otherwise empty commercial premises can legitimately help landlords reduce their business rates burden. This is a special rate only available to genuine charities and social causes using their commercial space. In addition to providing the space rent-free, ASTOP makes a charitable contribution equivalent to the charity’s liability for business rates. In this way the charity has the funds to use premises they could not otherwise afford. Equally, the landlord saves a net 50% and gains a swift-to-implement, no-notice tenancy. The charity commits to being able to dismantle the operation within days, should the landlord find a new tenant, or if the space is needed back for any reason. Everybody wins.

ASTOP found us the perfect rent-free premises in an ideal location! Just what we needed!

Yusuf Bashforth of Global Educational Trust

Empty Rates Mitigation – Your Ethical Options

If you are running a recognised and reputable charity or good cause, ASTOP can help you find landlords with suitable empty premises and manage your rent-free tenancy. More than 90% of the spaces we have matched for good causes to date have been totally free of charge and the rest have only incurred utilities. Shaylesh Patel, ASTOP and its associates have an extensive UK wide network that has allowed us to create mutually beneficial arrangements between landlords and high-profile charities including,

as well as many furniture charities, food banks and housing associations, plus dozens of other smaller charitable organisations and social enterprises. Our use of empty retail, warehouse & office space has been accepted by over 100 local authorities and commended by councillors and MPs in the UK across the political spectrum. The charity-landlord partnerships we create are widely accepted as the most ethical form of rates reduction by both local and national government.

Although funding is normally hard to source for initiatives run from pop-up locations due to the uncertain nature of the duration, ASTOP has also been able to advise, source funding and provide other in-kind support, plus useful contacts for many of the initiatives run from these temporary premises.

Whether you are a small local community initiative or part of a larger national charitable organisation, we can help you. The greater the funding you have available for these unused spaces (e.g., local grants), the greater the choice of sites from landlords and the greater the chance that the landlord will offer the space for longer periods (typically 12-24 months), without break clauses or short notice. Our landlords include:

Good Causes

HOW WE HELP GOOD CAUSES…

ASTOP’s service and advice for good causes is free

Empty Rates Mitigation – Your Ethical Options

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