Jem’s firm like many other surveying and law firms, offers pro bono advice for various studio groups and charity organisations ie on a voluntary basis. Jem has helped a few studios and saved one group of artists from years of financial stress because they were unaware of the implications of a break clause in the lease. As his firm normally charges his services out at A significant sum per hour, only a limited number of cases can be taken on. But it is worth artists asking around for firms that offer this advice. On a different note, I have spent large chunks of time adapting two portable DVD players ( those designed to keep kids entertained in the car). I needed to find a way of plugging the gaps between the screws enabling the fixing to lie butt up against the wall. i can’t believe I ever thought polystyrene was going to work. After a few attempts I came up with a rather modest and insignificant looking structure.
