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Sponsor a Brick Campaign
Help us to turn an empty house into a rented home for a Knaresborough family. Knaresborough CLT has acquired a house in Knaresborough but we need to raise raise £70,000 for essential repairs and to get the house back into use. You can help us to get to our target by sponsoring a brick.
Each brick costs just £10 and you can sponsor as many as you like. Each sponsor will receive a certificate and have their name painted on a brick for posterity.
With thanks to Cllr Matt Walker and Cllr Hannah Gostlow we have already got the ball rolling with a generous grant of £5,000 from their locality budgets.
In late 2023, the CLT acquired a 3 bedroom house from North Yorkshire Council which we own outright. The house has been empty for 12 years so it needs a lot of work. The roof literally needs lifting, and a bathroom installed upstairs before we can let the house to a local family.
The plan has never been to stop at one property but to grow a portfolio of low rent/ shared ownership properties in Knaresborough that means that having a home in Knaresborough is affordable for everyone in our community.
To return this house into use as a family home, we have a fundraising target of £70,000. Some of that will come through grants but we hope to raise £25,000 in sponsored bricks.
If we make more than we need, any extra funds will go back into the running of the CLT and maintenance of the house.
To sponsor a brick, please follow the link to our crowdfunding page here or visit the page: