News and Events

The next CLT Practitioner's Residential Seminar is kindly being hosted by Cornwall CLT Ltd and Carnegie partner, the Eden Project in November. Looking into themes such as Housing and Beyond; How Housing Associations can assist CLTs and Accessing Appropriate Finance, the seminar also offers a study visit to some of the operating CLTs in Cornwall.

We are very keen to welcome newcomers to CLTs to this seminar and will run sessions like: 'Everything you need to know about CLT’s but were afraid to ask' and 'Involving Your Community.'

Carnegie UK Trust partner's Falkland Centre for Stewardship are running the Big Tent- Scotland's Environmental Festival on the 23th to 25th July this year. 

Set on the beautiful landscape of Falkland Estate in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, Big Tent is a fantastic weekend of music, arts and family activities mixed with stimulating debates on social and green issues. Wash this all down with incredible food and drink in the One Planet Food Village which celebrates the best in organic food and drink and you have a very special weekend.

Community land trusts deliver community aspirations. They offer an affordable way to provide housing and locally-owned business and community buildings, using a new set of legal, financial and resource management tools that are relevant to a wide range of existing as well as new organisations

Organised by New Start, Community Finance Soutions and Carnegie UK Trust -  'Solving Economic Development and Housing Needs' will offer an opportunity to hear back from leading policymakers and to learn from Community Land Trusts (CLTs) on the ground. It will demonstrate how CLTs can be a sustainable solution in a wide range of settings - encompassing housing, economic development, community empowerment and co-operative development.

Community organisations trying to build affordable homes in the rural towns and villages of Somerset and Dorset are to get valuable business support from a new partnership.

Resonance and Wessex Community Assets are today revealing details of a two year partnership to pilot a support business for Community Land Trusts across Somerset and Dorset.  The 'action research' project is being supported by the Carnegie UK Trust, which promotes sustainable rural communities, using funding secured from the Department for Communities and Local Government. 

Carnegie UK Trust and Rural Community Network to launch rural vision documents at Stormont today.

A blueprint for sustainable rural communities across Northern Ireland is to be presented to the  main political parties, rural stakeholders and the general public at an event in Stormont today.  The two documents being launched by the Carnegie UK Trust and Rural Community Network (NI) provide a vision for how people can plan for - and deliver- vibrant rural communties across Northern Ireland. 

Carnegie UK Trust in partnership with Community Finance Solutions will be running this seminar in April 2010. This is being funded through the Department for Communities and Local Government Empowerment Fund under the strand 'Community Involvement in Planning.' This seminar aims to provide a learning opportunity for CLT Practitioners and gives a chance to share skills and gain support and inspiration. The full programme is attached below. If you would like to book a place at the seminar please contact Kirsty Tait: kirsty@carnegieuk.org

Carnegie UK Trust has long championed the needs of rural communities across the UK and Ireland. The provision of affordable housing has proved to be the most pressing issue in rural England. Assisted by funds from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Carnegie UK Trust, in partnership with Community Finance Solutions, are issuing invitations to tender for organisations to act as the Community Land Trust National Facilitation Body.

Community Finance Solutions have developed a short Community Land Trust training course in conjunction with Carnegie UK Trust aimed at providing communities and their key partners with the tools to set up and run a successful Community Land Trust housing project.

Carnegie UK Trust has long championed the needs of rural communities across the UK and Ireland. The provision of affordable housing has proved to be the most pressing issue in rural England.

November 2009 to April 2010

‘We have recognised that the most important elements driving regeneration are people-based: ideas, attitudes, culture and narratives. This is a hopeful message in some ways because investing in people is cheaper than huge infrastructure projects – but it is much harder to do and to justify. Our research points to the need to redress the balance of regeneration programmes, away from expensive capital projects to investment in locally inspired action.’

A Manifesto for Rural Communities- Inspiring Community Innovation