December 2024

Sewell Estates Newsletter

Happy Christmas everyone!

We might be heading towards the closing weeks of the year, but we’ve got some exciting news to share exclusively with you before the start of 2025. Our two consultancy businesses, Community Ventures and Shared Agenda, are to merge, combining strengths and geographies to form Sewell Advisory, operating nationwide with a broadened service offer. We’re excited, and our team is looking forward to the launch of the new business in January!

You can find out more about this below, alongside a collection of some of our favourite stories from 2024.

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GROUP

Community Ventures and Shared Agenda to merge

Our two estates consultancies, Community Ventures and Shared Agenda, will merge in January to create a new 60 person-strong business, Sewell Advisory.

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GP practices healthcare
INVESTMENTS

Investment in primary healthcare

This summer, Middleton and Dinsdale Medical Practice were able to move out of the ‘temporary’ building they’d been in for seven years, into a brand new bespoke building.

Find out how
CONSTRUCTION

A lasting legacy at the Rob Burrow Centre for MND

The MND community, including Rob's parents Geoff and Irene Burrow, has come together to leave their permanent mark on the Rob Burrow Centre’s timber frame.

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The Sewell FM and Hull Citycare teams outside Elliott Chappell Health Centre in Hull
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

LEDs are a bright idea for Hull’s health centres

Sewell FM and Hull Citycare worked together to make Hull the only city with 100% LED lighting in its LIFT health centres.

Discover how

GATEway participants taken on across the Group in 2024.

DATA ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT

Keeping new graduates local in Yorkshire

One of the biggest challenges for the North of England is creating skilled, interesting career paths to encourage young people to build their careers in the area. Something we're fighting with Project GATEway.

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"I wanted to find a job that would allow me to grow and develop my skills, as well as feeling like I was making a difference."

Michael Boland, Parallel Product Lead

CONSTRUCTION

The unintended consequences of decarbonisation

All decarbonisation is good… right? Our building retrofit expert Steve Dam examines some of the ways in which decarbonisation plans can do more harm than good.

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CONSULTANCY

The importance of early engagement with healthcare planners

Estates expert Jonathan Turner explains how health planning can support clinical and service decision making around your estate.

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CONSULTANCY

20:20 vision for Citycare and Community Ventures Leeds

The LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) was set up in 2001, meaning early LIFT companies such as Hull Citycare and Community Ventures Leeds celebrate their 20th anniversary this year.

Full article
Three radiographers stand in front of a CV
CONSULTANCY

£3m revamp for Tees Valley radiology

Earlier this year, we project managed the £3m revamp of Northallerton’s Friarage Hospital for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, enabling them to scan 100 more patients every week.

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