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#Funding| Severn Trent Community Fund Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations for local projects that support the wellbeing of communities in the Severn Trent region 💸 They have chosen to design the fund around improving community wellbeing. By this they mean projects with the following themes: 👥 People: Projects that support healthier lifestyles and skills development. 🙌 Places: Projects that help create better places for communities. 💚 Environment: Projects that improve access to and promote a healthier natural environment, including the preservation of water. They’re ideally looking for projects that are unique, have a genuine community need, and stand out as having a real impact on improving community wellbeing ✨ Up to £200,000 is available, find out more now 👇 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/diCKEaer #Environment #Community #Grants #Wellbeing #SevernTrent #Sustainability 

How often are you asked, “what exactly IS a brownfield?” Here’s a useful primer.

Royal Countryside Fund The Royal Countryside Fund is launching a new Supporting Rural Communities grant programme. The new programme is for transformative, community-led initiatives that will unlock the potential for positive change in rural communities. The Royal Countryside Fund aims to support innovative solutions that will “power up, not prop up” communities, creating tangible change and encouraging economic vibrancy. https://lnkd.in/ecaYX2cb #devon #rural #countryside #funding #community

I often get asked to explain in greater detail what is it that I actually do—even by members of my own family—and I totally get the confusion especially when you toss the term “brownfield” around😵💫!!! The simple answer is that it’s my job to make people aware of brownfields while also advertising our free services by way of graphics, webinars, how-to videos, and so on. Here’s a little series of graphics I made with the help of the NJIT TAB team to try to help break it down.

🔎 What’s a Brownfield? Curious about what these sites are, where they are found, and how they can transform communities? 👉 Swipe through our carousel to learn: ✅ What a brownfield is. ✅ Where you can find them (hint: everywhere!). ✅ What they can become – parks, housing, playgrounds, and more! ✅ Who benefits from redevelopment (everyone, including animals!). 💡 Did you know? There are over 450,000 brownfields in the United States. At NJIT TAB, we’re here to empower communities to clean up and repurpose these spaces – at NO COST to local governments and non-profits. Let’s turn challenges into opportunities for your community. 🌱 📍 Learn more: https://njit.edu/tab 🔗 Follow us for more brownfield redevelopment insights! #CommunityRevitalization #EnvironmentalRedevelopment #NJITTAB #LearnMore #CommunityHealth #Brownfields

🏡 Building housing takes land, capacity, and funding. Community housing organizations already bring two of the three, making us essential partners in addressing Ontario’s housing challenges. Hear from housing leaders and experts who shared their insights at this year’s ONPHA Conference. 🎤✨ Stephane Giguere, MPA, C. Adm, Adm.a - Ottawa Community Housing Corporation (OCH) Ray Sullivan - Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Jeffrey Neven - Indwell Sherry Larjani - Spotlight Development Inc. Tom Hunter - Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation Marlene Coffey, MA, MAES, MCIP, RPP - Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA) Sean Baird - Toronto Community Housing The community housing sector offers the expertise and experience needed to create real solutions. We’re ready to partner with public, private, and community groups to make it happen. 🤝🏢 Let’s work together! Happy #NationalHousingDay 🏠🎉

Up to 3 billion people could lack adequate #housing by 2030. How can this be prevented from happening? Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, discusses. Working for HACT as a charity for housing in the UK, supporting social housing i particular, I wanted to highlight the World Economic Forum report, Reimagining Real Estate: A Framework for the Future, which presents a vision for the future of #cities and #buildings based on #liveability, #sustainability, #resilience and #affordability. Read more via the link in the comments below.

On #NationalHousingDay, TCHC’s CEO Sean Baird shares his thoughts in a recent ONPHA video about the significance of partnering with community housing agencies to expand available services.

We’d like to share the news that The Green Estate has joined the Community Wealth Fund Alliance. The CWFA is a group of over 700 civil society, public and private sector organisations who support the Community Wealth Fund campaign. The campaign advocates for funding for neighbourhoods that have missed out on their fair share of funding and lack vital social infrastructure. These are neighbourhoods assessed as having high levels of deprivation that have lost facilities and services including community centres, pubs and transport links, and their residents can often feel forgotten or ‘left behind’. You can find out more about the Community Wealth Fund here: https://lnkd.in/eCKVeKQB

It's National Housing Day! Hear from housing leaders, including our CEO Jeff Neven, about the importance of community housing. #NationalHousingDay