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Saffron Neighborhood
Council
NeilHodgkin
Saffron Neighborhood Council
We are a small local
charity based in
Leicester with some
big ideas.
In 2008 we began to see the start of traditional sources
of income depreciate or completely disappear
The Charity’s income has gone from
2008 - £498,000
2014 - £253,000
So, we needed to find a new income stream
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We also had 13 acres of Brown
Field land, sitting on our door
step, that had been earmarked for
housing by the Local Authority for
the last 25 years
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In 2009 The Saffron Heath was born
A blue sky dream to build 50 straw bale eco-
homes in the middle of a city council estate
with a 12 acre farm at it’s heart
Providing training, healthy lifestyles and
affordable housing all in the heart of
community
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So with this back of fag packet idea
(we did think about it in the pub)
I got some local architects to do us
some drawings pro bono
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With these designs and a good sales pitch
I got the newly elected mayor to promise to give us
the land for £1, if we could deliver what I said we
could build
After a meeting at the House of Lords, the HCA got
in touch with us regarding the scheme and after
several meetings, said they would help back the
project to the sum of £2,000,000.
What could go wrong?!
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The HCA
required an
RSL to be
involved
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The Mayor said
NO!
THE END
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3 months later, out of the blue the
HCA contacted us and asked if we
could have another go getting our
idea approved
I some how got everybody back
around the table……..
In 2015 we start building the biggest
Passive social housing project in
Europe
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The Local Authority gets an exemplar eco-housing
project, to add to the city green credentials.
The city gets an external investment of £10
million into the local economy.
The charity gets the free hold on 13 acres of land
and a ground rent for the next 125.
The Local community gets 68 new social
affordable homes that are 80% more efficient
than standard social housing and access to a 12
acre food growing project.
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We have had a massive learning
curve as an organisation;
learning that there are no friends
in business and to get everything
in writing, or even better in a legal
document before you start.
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What
Next?
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As an estate we are cash poor
We are in the top 1% of socially
deprived areas in the UK
But as a community we
are asset rich!?
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The area has 3900 local authority social
houses in the area, this dose not include
the RSL homes
Underestimated stock value £320,000,000
Total income stream £21,700,000 per year
Other than rental collection and repairs
none of the rest of the income stays
within the local community.
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We think that
this situation
needs to end
now
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Charity
begins at
home
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