Residents of Banister House turned disillusion into the UK’s largest community-owned solar energy project on social housing.
Banister House Solar
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Equal Care Co-op
A platform co-operative that brings community together in social care
Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre
A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise
Anstice Memorial Hall
Renovating Anstice Memorial Hall, a Victorian working men’s club
Linskill and North Tyneside Development Trust
When threatened with the potential demolition of the community centre, people of Linskill and North Tyneside came together to turn the building into a community asset.
Friends of the Joiners Arms
Saving and evolving The Joiners Arms to become London’s first late-licence LGBTQI community-run pub
Gawcott Fields Community Solar
A community energy project tackling fuel poverty in Buckinghamshire
Hulme Community Garden Centre
A community-led garden centre improving wellbeing and social inclusion
Leeds Community Spaces
Putting council community centres in Leeds into community hands
DoLittle Solutions
Training, education and employment for young people in Tower Hamlets
Real Ideas: Connected Schools
Harnessing underused school facilities to catalyse community activity
The Selby Trust
Dynamic social hub made possible by a dedicated and diverse community
New Wortley Community Housing
People-powered regeneration to deliver genuinely affordable homes
Hilsea Lido
A pool taken into community hands by the people of Portsmouth
Sheffield Renewables
A community business that develops, funds, builds, owns and operates renewable energy schemes in the Sheffield City region.
St Ann’s Redevelopment Trust (StART)
A community-led housing development providing affordable homes, promoting health & wellbeing, creating a green neighbourhood
Charles Burrell Centre
The former school site increasing job and skills opportunities in rural Norfolk
The Duke of Marlborough Pub
A beautiful historic pub cared for and restored by the local community