Endorsements

“Allowing people to resolve their own housing needs is one of the best things you can do to build communities. Unfortunately there is little support or encouragement for people to do this.  We believe this project will help bridge that gap and we fully support it”

David Ireland CEO Empty Homes Agency

“There isn’t much information available about innovative self-help projects and so there’s lots of scope for something like this. It would be especially helpful to people wanting to set up something similar to those projects that already exist  and needing advice and guidance”

John Wood, Giroscope.

“I am really excited by the ideas you have about giving a fresh impetus to the concept of self-help housing.  Shelter is very interested  in this sort of idea and will be actively seeking to support whatever schemes can be made to work in this area. ”

Adam Sampson - Director Shelter

“There is a close fit between this community self help housing project and other areas of work in which we are engaged.  We are putting together a menu of things that churches can do around homelessness and housing, and this could be one of them”.

Alison Gelder - Director Housing Justice

“Self-help housing works on so many levels - people building their independence as well as practically creating a home and people contributing to the community and as well as gaining employable skills. It’s a win win formula!”

Athol Halle - Director Groundswell

“Thames Reach has a number of employment and training programmes that would mesh well with the proposal and I see the project as a great way of connecting owners  of properties and homeless organisations which want to create opportunities for  their service users.

Jeremy Swain ThamesReach