Deighton based social enterprise Fresh Horizons have won international coverage on Finnish TV for their pioneering community development work.
Fresh Horizons craftsmen and apprentices have been fitting out the former Premier shop in Sheepridge Village Centre as a new laundrette. The new service will be run as a social enterprise by Local Services For You, the enterprise arm of the Deighton and Brackenhall Initiative Ltd.
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Would you like to design and make your own clothes? Do you want to be a part of what promises to be the fashion event of the year? [...]
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The project is designed to encourage individuals or groups of young [...]
Since 2002 Fresh Horizons has been successfully engaged in Community Research and has built up an expertise in the development of local people to deliver research projects for the public sector.
The defining features of the Community Research process of inquiry is that community members, persons affected by service delivery or other [...]
EMPTY homes in Kirklees are to be renovated and leased as affordable housing under a new scheme.
Deighton-based social enterprise, Fresh Horizons, is working in partnership with Connect Housing on plans to return 100 properties in Kirklees to be ‘ready-to-let’ in the next three years.
Figures show there were 3,505 long-term empty properties in Kirklees [...]
The Fresh Horizons laptop repair service was first established in 2003. Originally we set out as a drop-in centre at the Ingfield Centre for local people in Deighton who couldn’t afford the then hefty prices that larger computer repair shops charged; we showed them how they could do simple repairs at home i.e. virus [...]
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