A Home For All: Help End Cornwall’s Housing Crisis

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A Home For All: Help End Cornwall’s Housing Crisis

Cornwall is facing a growing housing crisis.

Many local people are struggling to find affordable homes, leading to an alarming rise in homelessness. In the face of the current housing crisis, we believe everyone in Cornwall deserves a safe, stable place to live, and we need your help to make this a reality.

That is why we are launching the Cornwall Housing Crisis Fund. To provide urgent support to those at risk of losing their homes and increase the number of affordable housing options across the region. This fund will support local groups working on the frontlines of homelessness, help build affordable homes, and advocate for long-term solutions.

Why we need your help

Housing costs in Cornwall have skyrocketed, leaving many local residents unable to afford a place to live. This, combined with the rise of holiday rentals, has drastically reduced the availability of long-term rental housing. Cornwall now has far fewer social housing options than the national average—only 11% of homes are social housing compared to 18% across England.

As a result, over 27,000 households are stuck on waiting lists for affordable housing, and an average of 43 people are sleeping rough each night—double the number before the pandemic.

What we’re doing

We’ve consulted with local housing and homelessness organizations and identified two key areas we will be focusing our support:

Supporting Frontline Organizations

We will provide long-term, flexible funding to organizations that are helping those in immediate need. Many of these groups are under strain, with 89% reporting a huge rise in demand for their services since 2020. They need our support to continue offering critical care, including mental health support, housing advice, and emergency shelter.

Boosting Community-Owned Housing Projects

We’re creating a 0% interest loan fund to kickstart affordable housing projects run by local communities. These initiatives, like Community Land Trusts, focus on building homes for people with strong local ties. The fund will provide interest-free loans for early-stage feasibility studies, helping make these projects a reality and providing homes for those in need.

The impact of your donation

£15 could provide an emergency care pack with essentials for someone in crisis.
£150 could fund a day’s work by an outreach worker helping people off the streets.
£1,000 could cover the utility bills for a hot-breakfast service for three months.
£20,000 could contribute to a feasibility study for a community-led housing project, paving the way for 20 new homes.

Our goal

We need to raise £3 million to fund these vital initiatives and provide long-term solutions to Cornwall’s housing crisis. Every donation, no matter how small, will help us get closer to our goal of ensuring that everyone in Cornwall has a place to call home.

Together, we can create a future where no one is left without a roof over their head. Please donate today.

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Cornwall Community Land Trust

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Kinsman and Treningle Tenants and Residents Association receives Cornwall Emergency funding

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Working with Cornwall’s foodbanks to feed people who are hungry

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Wild Young Parents Project thanks Foundation for support

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Emergency Appeal reaches the elderly in Cornwall’s far west

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VIDEO: Concern Wadebridge transforms its services to meet Coronavirus needs

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Lighthouse Community Centre – a beacon of hope in Liskeard

School closures, job disruptions, lack of paid sick leave and health threats are impacting low-income families in Liskeard who are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque. Lighthouse CIC have used their grant from the Emergency Fund to offer a range of support services, supporting over 240 children in two weeks.

Battling On CIC, Callington, have received £3000.00 from the Cornwall Emergency Appeal to purchase essential supplies for vulnerable young people who are currently experiencing high levels of anxiety.

Emergency Appeal helps Truro Foodbank ‘feed more children than they ever have before’

Simon Fann, Truro Foodbank spokesman, reports that records show that they “are feeding many more children than we have ever had to before…In March 2020 we fed 533 people, nearly 50% being children. Cornwall Emergency Fund is helping Truro Foodbank, and other frontline community organisations across Cornwall support people in crisis.

Disability Cornwall preparing meals for vulnerable people

Cornwall Emergency Fund has supported the purchase of food and containers for Disability Cornwall's new ‘Community Kitchen’, based at Hayle Rugby Club. This service is delivering both hot and cold meals to 400 vulnerable people in the community each week.

Emergency Fund supports Drop In and Share Centre for more meals in Newquay

Open five days a week, the Drop In and Share Centre Newquay have responded quickly to the ever changing situation around Covid-19. They are currently feeding 120 people per day and expect that to increase. Funding from the Emergency Fund has helped them cope with additional demand.

BF Adventure

BF Adventure, a Cornish outdoor education charity, were awarded £6,840 in 2018 by The Worval Foundation to run two groups of their 'Head Out' programme to improve the health and wellbeing of 12 young people.

Quiet Connections CIC

Quiet Connections is a Redruth-based charity focused on supporting those with mental health issues and creating a ‘community of understanding’. They have been supported by a £750 grant from the Mining District Fund to make their support services more accessible to those most in need.

Camelford and District Age Concern

Camelford and District Age Concern received a £400 grant from the Cornwall Glass Fund which financed the final amount needed for a new minibus. They now have the capacity to transport community residents and their electric wheelchairs, creating more opportunities for those aged 50+ to get out of the house.

Launceston Area Wildlife Group

Launceston Area Wildlife Group are enthusiastic about flora and fauna in the area, and ever keen to further their knowledge on the topic. A £400 grant from Ruth Burden Community Trust Fund enabled the group to purchase an Echo Meter Bat Detector, and record sightings of new bat species that the group had never seen before!

The Oasis Centre

The Oasis Centre, based in St Column Major, works to support people in the surrounding community who are housebound, socially isolated, marginalised, in debt, or with poverty and benefit problems. They received a grant of £2,500 from the Albert Van Den Bergh/Jane Hartley Fund to add to their resource base and improve the support they can offer.

Duke of Cornwall Benevolent Fund – music software for young carer

Herbie is a 17 year-old carer. He helps care for his disabled sister, Susie, who needs assistance with everything she does. He received help from the Duke of Cornwall Benevolent Fund to purchase music editing/recording software to enable him to create, mix and reproduce music, to a professional standard and create music with his disabled sister.

Citizenship for Life CIC

Citizenship for Life CIC aims to give vulnerable and challenged young people the skills they need to cope in life, help build their emotional resilience and life skills. Through the #iwillfund (previously known as the Youth Social Action) Citizenship for Life CIC received funding for five of their twelve programme days.

CCF Crisis Fund

The Crisis Fund benefits vulnerable people on low incomes who are urgently in need of small, one-off amounts of money. Grants are normally are made up to £250 distributed to provide financial support to the most vulnerable people in Cornwall. These small grants can be accessed through a wide range of sponsor agencies such as drop-in centres, refuges and food banks.

Sea Sanctuary

Sea Sanctuary helps individuals, children, young people and adults in communities who are struggling with their mental health. A grant through CCF from the Sport and Outside Activities for Children with Mental Health Conditions Fund enabled four young people undergo Take the Helm, a structured programme of marine based activities interwoven with the therapeutic principles of mindfulness and cognitive behaviour therapy.

The Meeting Place, Newquay

"The Meeting Place" in Newquay is a relaxed and safe environment, where locals could meet, drink good coffee and eat tasty food, at not-for-profit prices. The facility is also used by various agencies, including Probation and Social Services, for meeting clients. The Albert Van den Bergh and Jane Hartley Fund supported this project with £2,500.00 towards essential tables, chairs and building alterations.

Growing Links

Growing Links is a volunteer led, community education organisation providing skills, training, courses and activities in organic food production, garden design, healthy eating and nature education. The Penwith and Isles of Scilly Fund invested £2,340 towards a project called ‘The Outdoor and Discovery Mentorship Programme’ to support teenagers experiencing mental health issues.

St Austell Community Kitchen

STAK provides a safe and welcoming environment for the vulnerable, needy and homeless within the community. The Kitchen is now open 6 days per week and serves 4000 affordable meals annually. STAK has received £3,500 support from the Crisis Fund over 5 years.

The Core Youth Project

The Core Youth Project aims to provide young people with a safe, non-judgemental space where they are able to access new opportunities, advice, activities and talk to qualified youth workers.

Downderry Methodist Church Community Facilities

Downderry Methodist Church is a busy facility hosting a Memory Café, a Bread and Babes group, a choir and WI group. The project was awarded £2,700 through the Cornwall 100 Club, Benefiting Older People Fund and CCF’s Social Action Fund to form part of a larger project to improve the functionality of the building.

Pengarth Day Centre

Pengarth Day Centre received £4,800 from the Emily Bolitho Trust Fund to help clients with mobility problems, rural isolation or lack of income to pay for independent transport to access the day centre and meals on wheels.

Access Theatre

Access Theatre offers access to the performing arts for individuals who may not otherwise have the opportunity - adults with learning disabilities and a range of physical and sensory impairments. The Ruth Burden Community Trust awarded Access Theatre with £1,000 towards their performances at Launceston Town Hall. attended.

Active8

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