Camden Community Makers are an artist and local led community housing initiative formed by local artists and members of housing co-ops coming together to ensure genuinely affordable housing and facilities as part of the potential redevelopment in Kentish Town.
They have organised local community events such as film nights, street parties and have hosted community story map workshops using local materials.
How we’re helping
We have supported their incorporation and work to expand membership.
Community Assets for Society and Housing (CASH) is a CLT founded by members of housing co-ops, bringing together personal and professional experiences of community led housing.
As members of South East London based housing cooperatives, including Sanford and Nettleton, CASH have knowledge and resources they can draw on to provide a platform for new co-operative housing. They are keen for existing housing co-operatives to support new projects by pooling contributions from their reserves as loan stock and sharing their management experience to support a number of smaller developments and projects.
How we’re helping
We have advised CASH on Community Benefit Society rules and funded their incorporation. We are now supporting their site searching activity in South East London and corporate financial modelling.
An intentional community with a vision for a communal living and working environment, governed by the occupants.
A group of young freelancers in private rent looking to incorporate as a co-op and provide small private living spaces alongside communal live/work space.
How we’re helping
We have explained incorporation options and implications, advised on site searching and getting a better understanding of their financial position, and helped with a proposal brochure.
Fountain Self Build Group was established in 2015, by group of Waltham Forest residents in overcrowded households. Their aim is to create a sustainable community of social and genuinely affordable rented homes, meeting the needs of the self-build group.
Inspired by the Headway Self Build project, the group are looking to partner with a housing association who could forward-fund the scheme and build homes to a watertight shell. Members would then self-finish the scheme with last-fix carpentry and decorating and have approached a local college to collaborate with on the training.
How we’re helping
We have provided Adviser sessions about their approach, and explored the possibility of a relationship with Clarion and other partners.
Otherwise Living is a multistakeholder co-operative with a vision for sustainable urban living to create a healthy, self managed neighbourhood, based in Queens Park.
Their vision is of small private living spaces integrated with large and varied community spaces for many purposes with people of different generations and skills living together. This becomes a place for self-determined living bringing together food, learning, homespaces, smallfunds, wellbeing and workspace.
Otherwise Living aims to create a distinct sense of neighbourhood, which is integrated into the surrounding local area, and explores alternatives to consumerism and over-consumption, while expanding the notions of family, education, community and neighbourhood.
How we’re helping
We will be providing advice on a greater focus on the project scope, finances, and deliverability.