This year we have seen just how important our homes and neighbourhoods are to our health and wellbeing and the communities we all rely on. This experience has raised fundamental questions about how we live and the kind of homes we need. In Building Back Better we need to rethink not only what we build, […]

There is a growing ecosystem of funders and lenders looking at community led housing, but the availability of affordable finance is still a challenge for new organisations. As part of the Doing Housing Differently discussion series, this session explores the concept of underwriting to make financing projects from a single source easier and giving lenders confidence on […]

Many Housing Associations began life as communities taking action over their housing situations. Now with a wealth of experience in housing delivery and management, how can they use their skills and capacities to help today’s communities to do the same? Join us as emerging community housing groups pitch their projects to housing associations and discuss the […]

Local authorities in London are building council homes on a scale not seen for over 30 years.  Whether large-scale estate regeneration or smaller infill projects, the way today’s council homes are owned and managed will have a lasting impact on the lives of the communities they house.   From co-produced regeneration to long-term tenant management and […]

Developers are increasingly working with communities, to deliver schemes that meaningfully benefit residents and local businesses. From involving groups at an early stage to inform the brief, to handing over ownership when the homes are built. As part of the Doing Housing Differently online discussion series, this session explores the approaches developers are taking to […]

There are more than 200 housing co-ops in London with a real potential to grow co-operative ownership. Join us in weighing up the motivations and means that include coordinating resources between coops, building on existing land, and buying homes from developers with partially completed schemes that may be struggling. This event is part of the […]

This zoom discussion will feature Danny Kruger MP, Lord Barwell former advisor to Theresa May and Housing minister, Richard Bacon MP, self build champions as well as various members from across Citizens UK and Create Streets who will come together to discuss the future of Community Led Housing in the UK. Sign up here: https://cuk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrceGsrzotGdeOnVSsGJkKJ4bIJ2lLFuam

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 […]