1. Community Campus
Empty Homes
More than just a roof……
Ian Cockerill
Development Manager
More than just a roof……

2. Who We Are
• An Industrial & Provident
Society born in 1987
We work to:
• Reduce homelessness
• Promote inclusion
• Help people achieve their potential
• Strengthen our local communities
• Provide innovative solutions to the challenges we face
More than just a roof……

3. What We Do
We directly provide:
• Housing, support and
resettlement services
• Personal development
and training opportunities
• Construction & building
services
• Support other community
based enterprises to grow
sustainably
We work across Teesside, regionally, nationally and with
international partners
More than just a roof……

4. Our Assets
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64 properties providing over 80 tenancies (53 owned)
Over 60 staff (14 apprentices)
Over 120 service users in any one week
Annual turnover of over £1.7 million
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5. The Outcome
 Over 5000 people supported
 Clear evidence of long term positive outcomes
 Strong adequately resourced organisation
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6. So what’s this
got to do with
Empty Homes?
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7. Everything!
We turn the discarded and redundant into
productive assets that meet need.
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More than just a roof……

8. Asset or Liability?
Empty homes are predominantly in the most deprived
places, theoretically with low demand where there is a:
• High proportion of poorly
managed private rented
property
• Higher than average
unemployment
• Low educational attainment
• Low skills base
• Low aspiration and expectation
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9. Our Approach
We join up the jigsaw by:
• Working with others
• Aggregating different
funding streams
• We meet our organisational
objectives whilst meeting the
objectives of our partners
• Maintaining a collective self belief
and motivation in each other and our
mission
• Managing our resources to continue
to grow and develop
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11. The Results
• 70% of our construction
team are former service users
• 14 full time apprentices created
from empty homes work
• Placements provided for people
at risk of exclusion
• Over 40 properties brought back
into use on behalf of registered
providers in 2012/13
• Funding in place to add 34 units
to our own stock
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12. Key Lessons
 Owning assets provides security
and the ability to smooth out the funding cycle
 Housing – key to regenerating
deprived communities if residents
benefit from income and opportunities
created
 Integration of personal development
opportunities within the construction
process creates jobs and support for
young people
 Maintaining the culture, ethos and
commitment of a core group of staff is challenging
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13. What next?
We will:
 Expand our Empty Homes work
 Increase collaboration
with partners
 Diversify and extend our
asset base
 Create new support frameworks
& services
 Work with our partners to improve
the approach to renewal and regeneration
 Develop new conduits for housing investment
More than just a roof……

14. Why?
 the need for accessible affordable quality
housing will grow
 opportunities for young people/the unemployed
have shrunk
 benefit dependency is not a long term option
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15. We’re All In This Together?
 We cannot succeed on our own
 Partners are needed to achieve our aims
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16. For further information please contact :
Ian Cockerill
Community Campus ’87 Ltd
76 Brunswick Street
STOCKTON-ON-TEES
TS18 1UU
Tel 01642 355618
Fax 01642 355620
Email : ian@cc87.co.uk
www.communitycampus87.co.uk
More than just a roof……