NCLT AGM in Birmingham – Report
Board Members Jeff and Huw spent a very worthwhile day in Birmingham at the National Community Land Trust (NCLT) AGM and awards ceremony on Saturday 5th October. NCLT, the umbrella network for 288 local community land trusts, acts as a funder, co-ordinator and knowledge repository to its members and lobbies for community housing at national and local level. They are funded by a variety of...
COMMUNITY LED HOUSING EVENT
The Pavilion Castle Green Hereford HR1 2NW Friday 18th October 2019 11am-4pm Herefordshire Centre for Community Led Housing is delighted to host Alex Lawrie from Somerset Co-operative Services. He will speak about: Business models for Community Led Housing Project Managing a new housing mutual Property developer/landlord/community organiser/investment manager or all of the above Somerset rules,...
COMMUNITY SHARE OFFER EVENT
Training Opportunities Learn how a Community Share offer can help fund your housing project and benefit the local community. Meet and speak to the team who successfully used community shares to fund the purchase of their local pub, The boot Inn at Orleton, to get ideas and find out how. When: Tuesday 30th October 2019 6.30pm Where: The Boot Inn, Orleton SY8 4HN This event is free but drinks and...
HCLT STALL IN HIGH TOWN, 21ST SEPTEMBER
Five members of HCLT ran a stall in Hereford's High Town during the day, chatting to people about our aims and what we hoped to achieve. We had offers of help from an architect, interest from people who needed somewhere suitable to live in Hereford and also from people who simply supported our aspirations. We also chatted with people visiting Hereford from places as far apart as Nantwich and...
THE HUNT FOR SITES IS ON
We did seek to have a piece of land withdrawn from auction to give us time to build up a scheme and see if we could buy it privately, but that was turned down by the vendor. We have now gone through Herefordshire Council’s asset register to identify which pieces might provide us with a site. We have a meeting set up with the council in mid October to discuss these sites, with the hope that we...
CAN YOU HELP MAN A STALL IN HIGH TOWN ONE DAY?
As part of letting people know about Hereford Community Land Trust, and hopefully gaining more interest and members, we are having a stall in High Town between 9.30am and 5pm on each of the following Saturdays: 21st September, 12th October and 2nd November. If you can offer a couple of hours help at any time on any of the days please contact Jeff Beatty on beatty457@btinternet.com or by phone on...
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ATTEND A SESSION ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES: PLANNING APPLICATIONS, DEVELOPMENT FINANCE ETC?
If you would like to know more about how to put a potential scheme into action, then you might want to come along to a seminar we aim to hold on the subject. If you're interested please contact us through the website.
WOULD YOU BE PREPARED TO LEAFLET A FEW STREETS IN HEREFORD?
To further increase knowledge about HCLT, garner new members, possibly help to find a site and also people who might invest in a scheme (CLTs can provide a place for ethical investors) we will be producing a leaflet to be delivered around Hereford in the later autumn. If you could help distribute leaflets over even a few streets, that would be tremendous. If you can, please contact Jeff Beatty...
AGM
OPEN MEETING: UPDATE AND Q&A WITH HCLT BOARD 7 – 9.15pm Thursday 29th November 2018 Garden Room, Left Bank, Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DG The last few months since the launch of the Building Momentum project in June have been very busy on all fronts, with significant progress made in several important ways. We would like to share this with you, answer your questions, outline the...