We recently ran a workshop focusing on community ownership in Sheffield, with a key theme being the unaffordability of land, housing and other spaces, and the challenges this poses for many Sheffield residents and organisations.
We invited over 20 representatives from different community-led, housing, co-operative and charitable projects around Sheffield to join us.
Alongside group discussions to share and build collective knowledge, we brought in Claude Hendrickson as a facilitator and speaker, who provided insights from over 30 years working in the self-build/community led housing sector since founding Frontline Community Self-Build in 1989.
This introductory workshop was held to explore local perspectives and questions around the benefits, challenges and needs associated with collective forms of ownership, with a view to this leading to further workshops and events around community ownership in Sheffield. As a small and predominantly voluntary organisation, we hoped to get to know more about the work of the organisations that participated, and to see how we might be able to work in partnership to help to facilitate community-ownership projects going forward.

The workshop was funded by the SEGA programme and JG Graves charitable Trust.