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Address
& contact details
c/o The Workbox
4th Floor, PZ360, St Mary’s Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4DZ
tel 01736 333073 mobile 07811 205765
e-mail timdwelly@theworkbox.com
Date
of birth
21/11/1963 Redruth
Education
10 O levels, 4 A levels (English, Economics, Politics, Spanish)
1st class honours in Drama BA, Manchester University 1986
Employment
Freelance journalist from 1987 to 1989, contributing to the Guardian,
Independent, Observer, Time Out, City Limits, BBC Panorama (researcher
on Lady Porter programme) and many more. Regular contributor to
Housing Associations Weekly, Public Service Local Government. Journalist
on ROOF magazine, Shelter 1989 to 2000, Editor/publisher from 1993
to 1996. Stepped down as Editor upon moving to Cornwall in 1996.
Experienced at media appearances/press work, organiser of high level
political debates and contributor to web site
Budgets/management
As Editor and Publisher of ROOF magazine I managed four staff including
a marketing manager and advertising sales person. I was budget holder
for an annual turnover of £270,000 and responsible for income of
£280,000. The magazine had to break even as a condition of being
produced by the charity Shelter. I was also responsible for recruitment.
I am now director of regeneration consultancy Tim Dwelly in Partnership
Ltd and the national Live Work Network, both with fast growing turnovers
Freelance
work from 1996
For
Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
Questions of quality - ten questions for local authorities involved
in new social housing (1998)
Community Investment - the growing role for housing associations
(1999)
Arts and regeneration - proposals to the National Assembly of Wales
(2000)
Living at work - a new policy framework for modern home working
(2000)
Creative regeneration - lessons from Wales (2000)
Our home not the home - residents views on new care homes (2001)
Also various Findings and articles in the publication 'Search'
For
others:
Sustainable home ownership - the debate, for Chartered Institute
of Housing (1998)
Living in the future - 24 sustainable development ideas from the
UK (UK submission to the UN Habitat 2 conference, 1996)
Working together, annual report Croydon Community Health Trust (1995)
Funding the future, Kerrier District Council housing strategy (design
only, 1999)
The tenant participation manifesto 2000, North British and South
Yorkshire housing associations (1999)
Annual Review of New Deal for Communities programme, DETR/Neighbourhood
Renewal Unit (May 2001)
West Ferry work/live, Peabody Trust (2002)
Time
to go home, Work Foundation (2003)
Tim
Dwelly in Partnership Ltd
Director since 2002. The company undertakes policy research and
communciations jobs for numerous clients in central government,
local government, housing and teleworking sectors. Current clients
include the ODPM, NRU, Work Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
Peabody Trust, Tomorrow Project, Riviera Housing Trust, Housing
Quality Network, Carrick District Council, Penwith Housing Association
and Inside Housing magazine.
Reports include:
Neighbourhood Renewal Unit annual review, NRU (2002)
Disconnected - social housing tenants and the homeworking revolution,
Housing Corporation (2002)
New Deal for Communities annual review 2002, NRU (2003)
Neighbourhood management conference reports, NRU (2002 and 2003)
Housing market renewal conference report 2003, ODPM (2004)
Live Work Network
Director of Live Work Network (www.liveworknet.com) since October
2003. The Network supports knowledge sharing and good practice in
the growing live/work sector (properties that combine workspace
and home). Supported by ODPM, the Housing Corporation, Places for
People Group and Peabody Trust.
Work includes:
Homes that work, housig associations as providers of live/work property,
Housing Corporation/Peabody (2003)
Viability study consultancy work for a wide range of private and
public sector live/work developers from 2003
National seminar on planning live/work business clusters, supported
by BT, 2004
Workhubs Network
Director of Workhubs Network (www.workhubs.com). The leading consultancy service supporting workhubs – shared workspaces for micros and freelancers (sometimes called co-working spaces). Also runs a directory listing these across the UK
The Workbox
Tim runs two workhubs in Cornwall, at Penzance and Truro. See www.theworkbox.com.
Voluntary
I am a former chairman of an EU funded initiative to support small
businesses/freelancers reliant on new technology in Cornwall - the
Digital Peninsula Network. The Network secured funding from the
DTI's 'innovative cluster' budget and from the EU Objective One
programme. See www.digitalpeninsula.com
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