{"id":1150,"date":"2009-11-29T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T17:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-11-29T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T17:30:07","slug":"were-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/4144216264\/\" title=\"Warwick Court - front by dalelane, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2695\/4144216264_c969b1506b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Warwick Court - front\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solent Youth Action <a href=\"http:\/\/solentyouthaction.org.uk\/?q=history\" target=\"_blank\">started life<\/a> as a youth volunteering project at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1community.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Community<\/a> (then Eastleigh Community Services). With only a couple of staff in the early days, we didn&#8217;t need a lot of space. <\/p>\n<p>Even after we <a href=\"http:\/\/solentyouthaction.org.uk\/?q=history\" target=\"_blank\">spun off as an independent charity in 2006<\/a>, we still remained based at <a href=\"http:\/\/solentyouthaction.org.uk\/?q=wherearewe#eastleigh\" target=\"_blank\">One Community<\/a> &#8211; moving from being a project there, to a tenant, renting a serviced office. <\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve grown, we&#8217;ve managed to rent a couple of extra offices in One Community, which helped us stay there for a little longer. But as we&#8217;ve continued to grow, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/solentyouthaction.org.uk\/?q=staff\" target=\"_blank\">more staff joined the team<\/a>, we&#8217;ve run out of room and had to start looking for our own space. <\/p>\n<p>This week finally brought completion &#8211; we finally signed the lease for what will be our new main offices. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s taken a long time. We first got the details of this place from the agent back in March&#8230; if you&#8217;ve moved house before, you can probably imagine what it&#8217;s like. It has involved a <em>lot<\/em> of work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/4143457863\/\" title=\"Warwick Court - rear by dalelane, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2641\/4143457863_fbaa4cce98_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Warwick Court - rear\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s all very exciting&#8230; instead of renting a few offices, we have a whole building to ourselves! And three storeys as well, with office space in a converted loft. <\/p>\n<p>The other great thing is <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=32+leigh+road,+eastleigh&#038;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&#038;sspn=21.06738,44.780273&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;hnear=32+Leigh+Rd,+Eastleigh,+Hampshire+SO50+9,+United+Kingdom&#038;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">the location<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=d&#038;source=s_d&#038;saddr=32+Leigh+Rd,+Eastleigh,+Hampshire+SO50+9,+United+Kingdom&#038;daddr=16+romsey+road,+eastleigh&#038;geocode=Ff-8CQMdm0br_ykZt3OXA3N0SDGyHYK5rhxdVQ%3BFUq_CQMd0lLr_ykRgahhAnN0SDFiBJGZBqJTHw&#038;hl=en&#038;mra=cc&#038;dirflg=w&#038;sll=50.970105,-1.356615&#038;sspn=0.00273,0.005466&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=50.970105,-1.356615&#038;spn=0.010918,0.021865&#038;z=16\">few minutes walk<\/a> from our One Community offices (and only <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=d&#038;source=s_d&#038;saddr=32+Leigh+Rd,+Eastleigh,+Hampshire+SO50+9,+United+Kingdom&#038;daddr=50.969373,-1.353292&#038;geocode=Ff-8CQMdm0br_ykZt3OXA3N0SDGyHYK5rhxdVQ%3B&#038;hl=en&#038;mra=dme&#038;mrcr=0&#038;mrsp=1&#038;sz=16&#038;dirflg=w&#038;sll=50.967103,-1.35016&#038;sspn=0.010919,0.021865&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=50.969441,-1.355846&#038;spn=0.021836,0.043731&#038;z=15\">four or five minutes walk from the town centre<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Finding a decent building with a lot of space, at an affordable price, so close to the town centre (and bus station, train station, etc.) was very lucky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m jumping the gun on our official announcement a bit&#8230; it&#8217;ll be a while before we&#8217;ve moved everything across and gotten it ready for people to visit. 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