About Us – Midhurst Community Land Trust
Affordable Housing for the Midhurst Area
What is the Midhurst Community Land Trust?
Midhurst Community Land Trust (Midhurst CLT) is a not-for-profit social enterprise set up by a local group for the benefit of the town of Midhurst and the villages of Bepton, Woolbeeding, Easebourne, West Lavington and Cocking.. Its overarching aim is to make available a long-term stock of genuinely affordable housing for local people to rent or occasionally, buy and to offer short-term rented accommodation to key workers.
A Community Land Trust is a social enterprise set up to benefit a specific community by owning important local assets.
Midhurst Community Land Trust was set up in 2017 by volunteer residents whose objective is to provide affordable housing for local people. In July 2022 the Trust achieved Charity Status with the UK Charity Commission.
Midhurst Community Land Trust seeks to either own land or at least have very long leases on land and would seek with its supporters to control such things as the design of houses or flats and ensure that local people have priority to live in them.
The Trust can then go on to protect other assets from being lost to the town – typically other community assets such as pubs, shops and allotments.
Midhurst Community Land Trust forms part of a national network of community land trusts. For more information on community land trusts generally, please go to www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
What is a Community Land Trust?
Some CLT Success stories
We have been inspired by the growing number of successful Community Land Trusts and Community Housing Projects around the country, please visit www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
How a community land trust works
A community land trust (CLT) is a non-profit community-led organisation that develops and stewards affordable housing and other assets that meet the needs of a community.
The Community Land Trust movement is growing every day. There are now over 548 CLT groups, with 587 CLT projects delivering 1,100 completed CLT homes.
Watch the National Community Land Trust video on Facebook
Our Team
Governance
Midhurst Community Land trust is an organisation with community at its heart. It is set up as a company limited by guarantee, which is a common model for not-for-profit and charitable ventures. Midhurst CLT is run by its board on a day-to-day basis, all of whom are local to the area and engage actively in a range of community-led organisations. We engage with and seek feedback from the local community at regular intervals and have built up a representative body of supporters.
To view the accounts please follow this link.
