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<p>The Government supports the community-led housebuilding sector – of which community
land trusts are an important part – through the Community Housing Fund. The Fund is
delivered outside of London by Homes England and within London by the Greater London
Authority. Capital and revenue grants are available to community-based groups wishing
to take forward schemes to build locally affordable housing.</p><p>The Government
has also provided a £6 million grant from the Community Housing Fund to support Community
Led Homes: a consortium of the major stakeholder groups (including the National Community
Land Trust Network). Community Led Homes is able to award secondary “seedcorn” grants
of up to £4000 to community-based groups to enable those groups to establish an appropriately
constituted body corporate, such as a community land trust. Community Led Homes is
also using its grant to develop a network of technical advisors to support community-based
groups though the process of taking forward their local housebuilding schemes.</p><p>The
Community Housing Fund is currently scheduled to close in March 2020. Ministers are
considering all budgets in the round and allocations for 2020/21 will be confirmed
through a business planning exercise. Allocations for future years will be considered
at the forthcoming Budget and Spending Review.</p>
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