This webinar workshop shares RUSS's experience of creating the organisation behind a community-led housing project in London. RUSS is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust based in south London, founded in 2009 with the mission of creating sustainable neighbourhoods and genuinely affordable homes.  In June 2018, RUSS was granted planning permission for 33 homes at Church Grove, Ladywell, south east […]

Find out about a community-led affordable housing project in Waltham Forest, how to get involved and learn from others doing the same. Forest CLT's next meeting will welcome guest speaker Sue Riddlestone, the CEO and co-founder of Bioregional. Bioregional is a social enterprise charity which designed the One Planet Living framework in 2003. This is […]

The aim of this members only NCLT event is to create a space for member groups to share with each other how they've carried on with positive developments for their schemes and/or helped their communities during the virus. If you are a member CLT with stories on how COVID has affect your plans for the […]

Are you part of a London Based CLT? New Local are looking for members of London-based CLTs to participate in their Listening Projects, a mix of virtual conversations, which seek to capture the views of families and young Londoners in housing, planning and place-making. Their upcoming workshop will focus on how community-led and local approaches […]

This event, hosted by Cooperatives London, is a place to tell people about your enterprise, project or idea. The aim of this event is to create as many new partnerships and opportunities as possible. Who is it for? Members and workers in all types of cooperatives and community benefit societies - and the 'co-op curious', […]

Hosted by London Renters Union, a FREE screening of the documentary PUSH that investigates the depths of the global housing scandal. In Push, investigative filmmaker Fredrik Gertten follows Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, as she meets with residents, mayors, campaigners and economists in New York, London, Barcelona, Seoul and […]

This breakfast talk, hosted by New London Architecture, will explore the current and potential role of small sites in the delivery of new homes and affordable housing. To deliver the quantity of housing Londoners need, sites of varying scale and complexity need to be developed. The specificity of small sites means they are often overlooked […]

A monthly meetup for established cohousing communities to discuss whatever is on their minds together. For established cohousing groups only. Register here.

Meet Forest Community Led Trust every first of the month. The webinar and discussion is for an hour from 6-7pm, with extra discussion time afterwards for anyone who wants to stay on and chat. At this meeting, Forest CLT welcome guest speaker Dave Boyle, director of The Community Shares Company. Dave is a consultant specialising […]

A member-only webinar about acquiring land from charities for your community led housing projects from experts Emma Ridge and Elizabeth Wilson of Wrigleys Solicitors. The talk’s aim is to spread a greater understanding of why charities cannot necessarily give preferential treatment to community-led housing groups. The emphasis will be on CLTs but the information will […]

A webinar on Cohousing and Building Communities chaired by Catherine Ryder, Director of Policy and Research National Housing Federation. With speakers from Older Women's Cohousing (OWCH) and London Older Lesbian Cohousing (LOLC). To register email admin.team@housing.org.uk.

This session will investigate what role communities could play in developing resilient, affordable housing that supports both people and place to thrive. Is there an opportunity to capture the community spirit seen throughout the pandemic in order to strengthen bonds between residents and create a more equitable housing system that works for both home buyers […]

An online event which will take place on Wednesday 31 March 2021, from 7pm-8.30pm, and speaker presentations will be followed by audience Q+As. Speakers and projects will include: Rosie Lynch and Patrick Lydon of Nimble Spaces/Inclusive Neighbourhoods In 2012, a group of people in and around the Camphill Community in Callan began to work towards […]