Encourage community and voluntary Wirral Council enlisted the help of the Fire Support Partnership working, grant organisations can play a key role in Network charity, through its rehabilitation programme. funding, staff resources community led bringing empty houses back into use with Ex-offenders assisted with the renovation of empty initiatives the support of their Local Authority homes bought through the Housing Market Renewal Initiative. This reduced the Council's costs and provided new skills to people on the programme. Phases, a small registered charity in South London renovated a former GP's surgery in Camberwell. The ground floor became offices for themselves and another charity, while the first floor was re-instated as a three-bedroom flat which has been let to a family on the Council's waiting list. Giroscope in West Hull formed in 1985 by a of unemployed young people bought an empty property by getting together their giro cheques and borrowing funds. To date they have acquired and renovated 23 houses, seven flats, three offices, a shop, a meeting space and 3,000 square feet of workshop space. Canopy is a small self-help housing charity in Leeds which renovates derelict houses with volunteers and homeless people. Homeless families are housed in quality, affordable homes that they have helped to bring back into use. B4box provides apprenticeships in building trades working in empty homes in Greater Manchester and the North West. Recently they completed a property owned by Salford City Council which had been empty for 18 years. Guide choice by incentives: use financial or other incentives to influence people to pursue certain activities Bids for £100m capital funding is available from The Council currently has three Housing Association HCA approval of bid, working in April 2012 through the HCA's Empty partners bidding for money from the 3 year programme partnership with local housing funding from Homes 2012-15 programme to target associations to provide strategic the Affordable long term empty properties and often financial support for Homes schemes Programme
Encourage community led initiatives community and voluntary organisations can play a key role in bringing empty houses back into use with the support of their Local Authority Wirral Council enlisted the help of the Fire Support Network charity, through its rehabilitation programme. Ex-offenders assisted with the renovation of empty homes bought through the Housing Market Renewal Initiative. This reduced the Council's costs and provided new skills to people on the programme. Phases, a small registered charity in South London renovated a former GP's surgery in Camberwell. The ground floor became offices for themselves and another charity, while the first floor was re-instated as a three-bedroom flat which has been let to a family on the Council's waiting list. Giroscope in West Hull formed in 1985 by a of unemployed young people bought an empty property by getting together their giro cheques and borrowing funds. To date they have acquired and renovated 23 houses, seven flats, three offices, a shop, a meeting space and 3,000 square feet of workshop space. Canopy is a small self-help housing charity in Leeds which renovates derelict houses with volunteers and homeless people. Homeless families are housed in quality, affordable homes that they have helped to bring back into use. B4box provides apprenticeships in building trades working in empty homes in Greater Manchester and the North West. Recently they completed a property owned by Salford City Council which had been empty for 18 years. Partnership working, grant funding, staff resources Guide choice by incentives: use financial or other incentives to influence people to pursue certain activities Bids for funding from the Affordable Homes Programme £100m capital funding is available from April 2012 through the HCA's Empty Homes 2012-15 programme to target long term empty properties The Council currently has three Housing Association partners bidding for money from the 3 year programme HCA approval of bid, working in partnership with local housing associations to provide strategic and often financial support for schemes