tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49100525183580418792024-03-06T12:02:38.159-08:00Keep Aaron CuttingLet's use the internet to enable Aaron, 89, to rebuild his shop.bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-32844177935446824742012-07-28T03:26:00.001-07:002012-07-28T03:30:45.673-07:00We've come full circle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly one year on from the riots, and with the eyes of the world turning to London for our moment of Olympic glory, we have fantastic news to report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All your generosities at the time of the riots raised so much money that we were not only able to refurbish Aaron's barber shop and bolster him a bit with his loss of earnings, but we had enough left over to help others in the Tottenham community as well. It was Aaron's wish, (and our delight) that we support projects for young people, showing that youth are far from the enemy, but the future that needs nurturing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have worked with the fabulous Kay Horne of Business In The Community (BITC, and pictured below with Aaron) to find recipients for the money that were appropriate. Kay has been tirelessly supporting the regeneration of Tottenham since the riots, and her BITC role will take her through until March and hopefully longer. She's a smiley face that the people of Tottenham have come to trust and love, and almost as much of a local celebrity as Aaron!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it was with great pleasure yesterday that we met with Aaron at the shop, and hosted representatives from the projects we have chosen to benefit from the funds - sharing more than £10,000 in fact. They are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dandelionproject.org/pub/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">The Dandelion Project</a><span style="background-color: white;"> is a young citizens' journalism project, which we chose because of the media connections to the Keep Aaron Cutting Project. We wanted to show that youth and social media could be used positively for good, and the Dandelion Project has the same aim. Their kids are going to come down and do a piece on Aaron. (And they also shot some great photos yesterday, so we'll upload those here when we get them.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">And next week, Aaron will attend a lunch at a week-long event being held at his beloved Spurs football club for young entrepreneurs, run by NTYE, which is the <span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.ntye.co.uk/" target="_blank">Network for Teaching Young Entrepreneurs</a> - the organisation gives young people business skills to work for themselves, as Aaron has done since he was 12 years old. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, Aaron was on great form, speaking Ghanian with Pastor Alex from Highway, and full of stories to relate to Fiona, the young journalist from Dandelion. And he's definitely looking forward to visiting Spurs. As ever, the shop is open for business from 6am-12:30pm Monday to Saturday, and business in Tottenham is still slow (you might have seen Aaron on BBC's The One Show on 20th July, with other Tottenham traders and residents), so we'd encourage you to visit for a haircut. You'll be very much welcomed, without a doubt.</span></span></div>
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This will be the last post from the Keep Aaron Cutting team, so we’d like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved. Diamond Build did an amazing job, Aaron’s nephew Eddie Biber who has helped enormously, and thank you to everyone at BBH who started the project and worked for months to get it where it is today.</span><br />
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</span></div>bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-36580210438404728012011-10-25T02:06:00.000-07:002011-10-25T02:21:09.060-07:00Looking good Mr. Biber<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Everyone,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the lovely guys from <a href="http://www.diamond-build.co.uk/index2.html">Diamond Build</a> have finished up the work on Aaron's shop, so we went down to visit him on the weekend. Monday to Saturday, Aaron is ready to cut hair from 6am, and we found him giving Bruce, a long-time customer a very tidy trim. Aaron's a happy chappy, despite a bit of a chesty cough, and we settled down for a cup of coffee and a good old chinwag in the refurbished shop. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The place is looking really great. It's certainly still Aaron's long-standing barber shop, but it has had a deep clean, a great lick of paint, new lights, new lino on the floor. He's got a new Gentlemen's Hairdressing sign out front (we tried to save the old one, but rot and the dreaded asbestos reared its ugly head...) and a snazzy roller shutter to keep him secure, plus new gates on the archway to take you around the back. And out the back of the salon space it's also clean, fresh, tiled and ready for Aaron to use as storage, or even have dance parties to the strains of Max Bygraves... There's new water plumbing for all those friends old and new dropping in for teas and coffees, and we're keeping the biscuit tin topped up with Rich Teas.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of Aaron's barber chairs broke during the refurbishment, so we're on the hunt for a lovely vintage replacement, and we'll be putting back other vintage barber's kit that Aaron lost during the riots - like his cotton wool and singeing stick holders. And we're getting a new set of visitor chairs, because there've been so many bums in the shop in recent times that most of them seem to have bust! We hope for lots of people coming in for cuts in the future - one of our team can report her 2nd fringe trim from Aaron was very fine indeed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks for checking back,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="s1">Björn and Sophie</span></span></div></span></div>bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-996761981928290382011-09-28T06:34:00.000-07:002011-09-28T06:34:09.313-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello everyone,</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
The work has started on Aaron's shop. The lovely Tottenham builders at Diamond Build will be hard at work over the next couple of weeks restoring his beloved barbershop. Keep checking by to see the progress.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
Thanks for your support, <br />
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Thanks for checking back. Things are moving along nice and steady. Our priority is obviously Aaron in all of this and it's been quite a month for him. We've been taking small steps with the refurbishment so as not to overwhelm him.<br />
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So far we’ve paid for the replacement glass in the front window, a new door, hair dryer and wall clock. Sorting out the interior now begins in earnest so we can fit security shutters and secure the building.<br />
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We've taken some time to find a good local Tottenham builder, step forward Diamond Build, and we are just finalising the quote with them as we speak. Aaron and his nephew Eddie are involved in each stage of the process and we are making sure it’s going to be exactly the way he likes it.<br />
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Once this has been complete we will also have a decision on which charity the remainder of the fund will go to. We've had lots of great ideas so thank you. Aaron will make the final decision.<br />
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Thanks once again for all your support and be sure to check back in a couple of weeks to see what we’ve done to the shop.<br />
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Björn and Sophie</span>bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-17419370934963599502011-09-01T08:12:00.000-07:002011-09-01T08:12:59.854-07:00ProgressHello everyone,<br />
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Just to keep everybody updated on the progress. Some local contractors are going down tomorrow to complete final quotes and get ready to start the work. We'll keep you updated on the progress!bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-7692226311207418512011-08-18T13:26:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:26:58.197-07:00Aaron is cutting again. Thanks to you. <div class="p1">All of your kind donations mean that Aaron is back in business. And his first customer is rather a special one.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Thanks to everyone for all of your support and generosity.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Thanks to you, Aaron is cutting again.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Don't forget to drop by if you need a haircut.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27875133?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="585" height="329" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/27875133">Keep Aaron Cutting - Back in Business</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bbhbarn">BBH Barn</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div>bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-71729979502214123012011-08-16T14:36:00.000-07:002011-08-16T14:36:20.082-07:00Message from Eddie (Aaron's nephew)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It is now 10 days ago that I accompanied my uncle to his small lock up shop in Tottenham to see the devastating sights of buildings on fire, total vandalism in the streets, as well as seeing my uncles shop window smashed, front door broken open and his shop ransacked. He was in shock that this could happen to him, a small barber shop.<br />
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With the help of neighbours we swept up the pavement, cleaned up the shop as best we could, and temporally boarded up the door/lock to make the shop secure that sunday evening.<br />
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We then heard about this Keep Aaron Cutting fund three days later, and my uncle then start to received many letter of support in the post.<br />
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I can say that these letter of support, as well as the support from the blog which I have told him about, now knowing that the shop will be secured and repaired, have given him the strength and heart to continuing cutting hair for a lot more years to come. He really is at a loss for words of gratitude and has told me he thanks everyone from the bottom of his heart, who has made a donation. With any funds left over he would like to help other victims of the riots in the Tottenham area.<br />
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My uncle would also like to say a special thanks to the interns Bjorn, Sophie and Omid for thinking of him and setting up the blog. He is sure they will have a long career ahead of them. They "did good" he told me. We would like to also thank, Mareka, Kimberly and yourself for being so kind to him over the last week. There are also many other I am sure at BBH who have helped or will be helping him in the coming months which my uncle wishes to say a thank you as well.<br />
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Best,<br />
Eddie</i></span>bjornandsophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07393640789719136529noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910052518358041879.post-52382933361556002332011-08-13T00:28:00.000-07:002011-08-13T00:48:30.128-07:00The KeepAaronCutting fund is now closed.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
Dear supporters,<br />
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Aaron has more than enough to get himself back up and running and has been completely overwhelmed by your response. After fixing up his barbershop, we will be working with the council, Aaron and his nephew Eddie, to distribute the rest of the fund to make sure it goes to help the other businesses and residents around Aaron's shop. There's lots to do. We will be recording the progress we make on his shop and the other people that benefit from your money. Keep checking back with us on this blog for these updates.</span><br />
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This project has proved that social media can be a powerful force for good. It's been the most heartening experience to be involved with all of you.<br />
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On behalf of Aaron and everyone involved, thank you so much for everything.</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial;">Aaron lost his wife last year. Born in Cable Street, he built up his businesses in Tottenham High Street over several decades and is a popular figure in the local community.</span></div></div><div style="padding-bottom: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial;">He arrived at his shop on Sunday morning to find the place smashed up, with windows broken and hairdryers looted. Even his kettle had been stolen.</span></div></div><div style="padding-bottom: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial;">Please donate to help get Aaron back on his feet and restore his faith in the community.</span><br />
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