The Community Led Homes North Yorkshire and East Riding Hub existed to:
- Promote community led housing as a viable housing delivery option with tangible and non-tangible benefits to all potential residents, communities and partners throughout the North Yorkshire and East Riding region
- Be the central point of information for the development of all forms of community led housing
- Deliver activities and workshops to interested communities
- Be ambassadors for community led housing, locally, regionally and nationally
- Develop a pipeline of community led homes throughout the region and provide additional support to create new opportunities.
The hub supported communities that wanted:
- To build and manage their own scheme
- To develop and own their scheme but not then manage the properties
- The whole package of support, with a housing association, or other appropriate body, taking on a long lease.
We worked collaboratively with public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations, to provide effective solutions for communities to deliver affordable community led housing.
The hub was co-hosted by Community First Yorkshire, in partnership with Humber and Wolds Rural Action, and was part of the national community led housing hub network. Information and knowledge were shared between other regional hubs, and we assisted the national community led housing organisations to gather evidence for central government housing delivery policies, grant programmes and responded to government consultations.
