FUND OPEN 🤝| Our Community Shares Booster programme is currently open for applications. It supports community businesses in launching an offer & with match funding.

Great to see that our friends and fellow #CommunityOrganisers at TCC in #Wales being awarded £100,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn to train and support young people in #communityorganising - well done! 👏 leaderlive.co.uk/news/18167586.…

Here's a link to the full paper: aclu.org/report/aclu-wh…

"In 2008/9, government grant made up 50-60% of the cost of building a social rented home. That figure is now only around 15%" Tom Copley

A project one of our technical advisors has been working on with Great Shelford Parochial Charities for the past 2 ½ years has received a unanimous vote today from Councillors to approve the planning application of 21 affordable almshouses, many describing it as “Inspiring”

We’ve joined with other funders to call on the government to provide more support for tenants and people facing homelessness. Read the letter here 👇🏽

We are very happy to say that with persistence and a lot of hard work we have done it! We are now the landlords and the tenants of our first two beautiful wooden eco homes. Thank you to everyone who supported us Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust Co-operative Housing in Brighton & Hove BHESCo Ecology Building Society CCH

Can't wait for our first official site visit for months! Some new pics of the interiors will be used when we start marketing the homes again. £115,000 for one of these beauties? Check out our website for details bbl-clt.org

.WeCanMake is one of the most innovative housing ideas. They’re utilising sites in old council housing estates to create homes for the people who live there. What’s more, the people of Knowle West are at the ❤️ of everything they do.

Coming up on Thursday! Don't forget to register. #communityledhousing

This is the difference that can be created by street planning that takes account of cyclists, pedestrians and public transport and gives them precedence over private cars. #DMBC take note

That's 10,780 'oven-ready' homes in the Homes England system ready and waiting. Our own research found that the Community Housing Fund has sparked plans for over 23,000 homes. That's more than quadruple numbers from just three years ago! It's time to renew the CHF!

CIAT | Consultation: Planning for the Future White Paper (closing date – 20 October 2020) shar.es/abExBi

Started a small plant nursery cooperative business with 3 friends. Looking to buy an acre or 2 near Belper, #Derbyshire. All leads and advice gratefully received.

Did you see Jocelle Lovell has shared some early findings into our research asking how Covid-19 has impacted #communityledhousing residents here: bit.ly/30hFaC3 and why now is the time to think about a co-operative principles charter for the housing sector.

You can now view our webinar with Hayley & Fiona discussing the role of #housingassociations in a #communityledhousing project on demand bit.ly/2ZquT5w #cohousing #peoplepoweredhomes #affordablehousing

When Rishi Sunak delivers his Comprehensive Spending Review this autumn, we’re asking him to renew the Community Housing Fund and deliver nearly 11,000 shovel ready affordable homes. More here: nationwidefoundation.org.uk/comprehensive-… #ukhousing

Fantastic to visit new energy efficient cooperative housing wt Rebecca Blake in #Redditch this afternoon #GE2015