Okra has continued to carry out a variety of community-interested design, engagement and educational projects. At the Orchard Project in Hertfordshire, Okra worked with a wide variety of stakeholders including future occupier Sunnyside Rural Trust, a charity and social enterprise who offer training and work experience for vulnerable people, to develop the design for a low-carbon educational centre.Okra also began work on the Pollards Hill Space Project Feasibility Study to look at refurbishing a disused toilets building at the heart of the area into a community asset, driven by local ideas and funded by Merton Council and the Greater London Authority’s Good Growth Development Fund. Okra carried out a thorough engagement phase where Okra identified more than 20 local key stakeholders and held interviews with them and engaged with the public through a variety of creative engagement processes: including vinyl installations on site, a local letterbox for ideas, a website, a freephone number and a free local audio tour. In total, Okra engaged with more than 1000 residents and workers in the area.Okra also continued its work in education and public outreach, leading educational walking and cycling tours of the city for Open City and the Architecture Foundation. Okra also led lectures at universities including the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN); construction workshops at London Metropolitan University; support for trainee tour guides at Open City’s Golden Key Academy; a free public lecture for the Architecture Foundation’s 100 Day Studio programme and a free online educational workshop for young people during lockdown called Stories of Your City (also for Open City).

Consultation is at the core of the work Okra undertakes and each project has an element of consultation which feeds into the wider work carried out. Okra have carried out specific local consultation projects at Pollards Hill in Merton and the Orchard Project in Hertfordshire through in-person and digital means and to the public via walking and cycling tours that connect the history of public housing to current critical debates introduced by local residents and opened to the groups.

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £ 1 400.00. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director's loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

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