Housing, planning, transport

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Advisory Service for Squatters; Squatters Action for Secure Homes (Squash).
Big Issue in the North.
Crisis “helping solitary homeless people fulfil their potential and transform their lives.”
Empty Homes Agency Hotline 0870 901 6303. Monitors and informs relevant authorities about empty homes, campaigns to bring them back into use.
Empty Homes Network – supporting the people who bring empty property back into use.
Foyer Federation Foyers help over 10,000 young people every year to escape the “no home, no job, no home” cycle.
Homeless Pages London focus, but its many links to relevant publications, sites etc apply widely.
Homeless Link is the membership body for more than 700 agencies working with homeless people in England and Wales.
Housing Rights Information specifically aimed at answering housing rights queries for new migrants.
Homeless Action Scotland (previously Scottish Council for Single Homeless).
Shelter.
SHP provides accommodation and support services to Londoners who need support to live independently and inclusively in the community.

Almshouses Association Provides advice and support to its membership of 1,750 almshouse charities.
Confederation of Co-operative Housing.
Cymorth Cymru Voice of supported housing in Wales.
Employers in Voluntary Housing.
Erosh National Consortium for Sheltered Housing.
The Glass House offers design courses, advice and support to tenants, residents and professionals working in neighbourhoods undergoing change and renewal.
Homes and Communities Agency funds housing associations (Registered Social Landlords).
Housing Rights Service Northern Ireland advice, training and information.
Inside Housing The magazine for professionals, with much of the news and features available online.
National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations (NFTMO).
National Housing Federation The organisation for Registered Social Landlords. 175 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UP, phone 020 7278 6571, email: info@housing.org.uk
Self-Help Housing
National Tenants Resource Centre is based at Trafford Hall.
SITRA Advice, info, training, consultancy for the supported housing sector.
Tenants’ and Residents’ Organisations of England (TAROE).
Tenant Participation Advisory Service for England – TPAS.

See Arts and Heritage for Historic Buildings.

Civic Voice is the replacement for the Civic Trust national body.
Human City Institute A consortium of organisations sharing the vision of turning ‘the human city’ into reality.
Planning Portal is the governmental source of info.
Royal Town Planning Institute.
Town and Country Planning Association.
UKPlanning for planning services around the UK.

ACRE – Action with Communities in Rural England.
Arkleton Trust.
Arthur Rank Centre (Germinate) is a focus and resource for the work of the Christian Churches in rural areas.
Countryside and Community Research Institute.
Institute of Rural Health closed March 2015 – archived research and material will be handed to the University of Chester, according to news item.
Scottish Rural Network For Scotland, from SCVO.
Rural Community Network Northern Ireland’s version.
RuSource Briefings (on /Open Fields website) covers various aspects of rural affairs and agricultural. Produced by Alan Spedding and linked with Arthur Rank Centre.
Community Shops, a project of the Plunkett Foundation, supporting rural areas to develop community-owned shops.
Rural Cultural Forum “a coalition of grassroots rural and farming community organisations, and professionals from the arts, design and rural media sectors”.
Scottish Land Action Movement (Facebook link) A collective of activists striving for comprehensive and radical land reform in Scotland by 2016.

Business in the Community has various Regeneration partnerships.
Development Trusts Association, the community-based regeneration network, is now part of Locality. The Scottish DTA continues.
Faith-based Regeneration Network.
Prince’s Regeneration Trust.
Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum.

HomeZones Creating residential streets where people take priority over cars.
Living Streets, previously known as Pedestrians Association.
Campaign for Better Transport – ‘sustainable transport’. Streets for People and Platform (rail services) campaign networks.

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