Innovative Investment Report out now
Our new report ‘Innovative Investment’ (#SocialInvestCH) is out today – Tuesday 25 November. The report argues that social investment should be used to fund Innovative and even untested housing schemes. This timely report comes at a time of growth in the Social Investment sector and of an increasing unaffordable housing market. Yes this may be a more risky…
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The social investment arguments are not black and white
It was reported in October that at a recent event Kathy Evans, CEO at Children England, said social finance is “absolutely the wrong thing” for the voluntary sector. She went on to say that the voluntary sector is the only part of British society not yet “saddled with debt” and that pursuing a social finance…
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New Peer Landlord Interim Evaluation Released
Commonweal releases interim findings of an independent, four year evaluation of the pilot Peer Landlord shared housing model.
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Left penniless in the asylum loophole
A State system that enforces destitution; sets out to deny people the opportunity to support themselves and removes housing options; whilst at the same time preventing them from accessing even rudimentary benefits or assistance is, in our opinion, a social injustice. A major social injustice. But the asylum system does just that. That is why…
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Celebrating two years of shared living
The Peer Landlord scheme has now been up and running for over two years. That’s two years of offering tenants a shared, reasonably priced and supportive home. Both Thames Reach and Catch22 continue to deliver the Peer Landlord project – from recruiting tenants, ensuring rent is paid, providing training to Peer Landlords and generally managing all…
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The next step in re-uniting families post-prison
Commonweal’s principle objective is to be an incubator of new ideas and new models – finding housing solutions to a range of different social injustices. We are an action learning charity seeking to test new models; where they are proven to work we encourage and facilitate their replication; if the models don’t we ensure we…
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