The Accents Team at Poplar HARCA was set up in June 2014 to support the social, economic and cultural regeneration of Poplar within the large-scale physical change in the area.

Working with many fantastic partners, external and internal, ACCENTS has delivered millions of pounds of capital and social investment in Poplar through innovative thinking and doing.

This includes hundreds of events, new workspace and businesses, millions of pounds of positive publicity, energy savings and new technology, thousands of volunteer hours and ever more engaged employees.

The Accents approach is to reappraise assets to maximise  their value to Poplar and its community. 

Space: turning liabilities into assets

Community: enabling people to define their futures

Business: building identity and opening procurement for a stronger local economy

Place: celebrating heritage; finding fresh opportunity in future change

People: turning passions into projects