Welcome

Community Land Trusts are currently being used around the globe as an effective way to deliver low cost home ownership to families and local communities in perpetuity. In the UK few companies have taken up this challenge - until now.

The London CITIZENS Community Land Trust is a not-for-profit community organisation that speciailises in providing CLT housing across London. We were born out of organised communities through our founders London CITIZENS.

In our founding year, we are on the verge of aquiring two sites for London's first CLT- St. Clement's Hospital and the Olympic Park. But we need to raise money this month if our efforts are going to be able to continue!

We want proud donors. We welcome the challenge of having to raise such a large amount of money from a wide array of sources. We see it as an exercise in the spirit of our overall endeavour – bringing people and organisations together and declaring with pride a founding stake in a collective movement that will forever endower posterity.

Every individual who donates £35 ($50) or more, and every organisation who donates £100 ($150) or more, will have their name inscribed on a brick on this website, and on the first home we build. Smaller donations are also welcome and are greatly needed. The cement mixers below pay testament to those who give whatever they can.

This website provides everything from a complete history of the CLT movement and our struggle in East London to the latest information about proposed sites and our campaigns for land. Please feel free to explore - all the pages are listed along the top. We hope you find it useful.

If you are a Londoner and want to know how you can get involved, please e-mail: david.smith@londoncitizens.org.uk for further information.