Posts – YorSpace

17.07.25

Here Is Hope: A Weekend of Possibility at Homestead Park Festival

On the first weekend of July, the sun was out and we were thrilled to witness Homestead Park become a hub of imagination, conversation, and commun...

24.07.24

York’s First Housing Co-op Gets the Green Light

“Bringing low carbon, affordable communities to York” Affordable, sustainable housing is hard to find in York. This is soon set to change as YorSp...

02.05.24

YorSpace AGM 2024

The team warmly welcome you to join us for the next YorSpace Annual General Meeting that will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 18th May. Thi...

20.03.24

AGM 2024 - Save the date!

Our next YorSpace Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 18th May at The Gateway Centre, on Front Street, Acomb. Following recent membe...

20.03.24

We have lift off!

After successive years of well documented global challenges combined with difficult funding landscapes, we are so excited to announce that 2024 wil...

30.04.22

YorSpace AGM 2022

On April 23rd, we hosted our 5th AGM at the Gateway Centre in Acomb. We were very excited to host an in-person AGM, having moved to a virtual platf...

21.03.22

We were shortlisted as finalists for the William Sutton Prize

On March 9th 2022, Clarion Futures hosted the awards ceremony for the William Sutton Prize. We were pleased to be in attendance as we were shortli...

22.02.22

Community Housing Fund: A Huge Win for Affordable Homes in York

Following a successful funding application to the Community Housing Fund, YorSpace CLT and OpHouse, a York-based Community Benefit Society have joi...

30.11.21

What have we been up to?

There’s been plenty going on behind the scenes at YorSpace. We wanted to share a little bit about what we’ve been up to and ways that you can help ...

26.05.21

Meet the Board, 2021

At the YorSpace AGM in April 2021 members voted to elect Directors to sit on the Board. Find out more about them here. By the way, the Board still ...

13.11.20

Shop at Co-op to donate to Lowfield Green

We’re tickled pink to have been chosen by the Cooperative Community Fund as one of the local causes supported by their marvellous members’ reward s...

11.10.20

You can help change the affordable housing landscape in Yorkshire

Apply to join the YorSpace Board as a Director Who We Are Our structure is unique: We are a Community Land Trust and Community Benefit Society whic...

19.09.20

Helping create a community-led neighbourhood

YoCo: A community, made through exchange We’ve had a pretty full-on year at YorSpace, having successfully surpassed our target raise in our firs...

21.08.20

Lowfield Green Project Update

What have you been doing all this time?! The YorSpace and Lowfield Green Co-op team haven't been very visible for obvious reasons over the past 6 m...

27.04.20

Meet the Board

At the YorSpace AGM in April 2020 members voted to elect Directors to sit on the Board. Find out more about them here. By the way, the Board still ...

05.03.20

Call for the Community Housing Fund to be extended

The Spring Budget is due to be announced on 11 March 2020, will the Community Housing Fund be affected? The big question for the community-led hous...

22.02.20

Community Shares raise over £422,000

Major milestone for Lowfield Green The end of January this year saw an important milestone for Lowfield Green, our first affordable homes project. ...

25.01.20

YorSpace And Mental Wellbeing

By Johnny Wells I guess I should start this with info about myself. I have been a member of YorSpace since 2018 and am a (future) resident of Lowfi...

17.01.20

Reflections on our share offer

As we approach the end of our Share Issue, some thoughts from YorSpace supporter Jane Hustwit. Last autumn I became preoccupied with Yorspace: why ...

29.11.19

An Intentional Community?

Here’s a guest blog with some interesting observations from our good friend and supporter, Jane Hustwit. Discovering the remarkable world of Yorspa...

20.11.19

Positive pioneering – creative solutions to the property crisis

YorSpace is becoming widely known for our creative approach to the housing crisis. We like to call it “positive pioneering”. Here we explain what i...

11.11.19

Patient Capital: A very "Yorspace" approach to investment

Our Community Share Issue is drawing to a close soon, so we thought now is a good time to encourage would-be investors to take a closer look at the...

24.10.19

Lowfield Green appoints Croft Farm as Preferred Partner

We are delighted to announce that the residents of Lowfield Green Co-op have appointed local firm Croft Farm Construction as Preferred Partner for ...

01.10.19

Yorspace Community Share Issue - watch our video and find out how you can invest!

We've been flat out at Yorspace throughout September, with the launch of our £475,000 Community Share Issue. The official launch event for investor...

13.09.19

Invest in forever affordable homes

We have a vision of revolutionising how housing is funded, delivered and owned in York - providing a tangible solution to the UK housing crisis.. Y...

10.09.19

21st Century Communities

Lowfield Green and Beyond The past few weeks has been a hive of activity for Yorspace, as we make the transition from planning to delivery. We’re w...

30.08.19

Yorspace - Our journey so far

It seems incredible that we are fast approaching “boots on the ground” stage in our Lowfield Green development. Having worked so hard for so long t...

21.03.19

Planning Committee 20th March City of York Council

YorSpace is delighted to announce that FULL Detailed Planning permission was approved for our design proposals for our 19 homes at Lowfield Green b...

14.01.19

Detailed Planning submitted for Lowfield Green!

YorSpace is pleased to announce a Full planning application to finalise the design of the homes at Lowfield Green was submitted on 21st December 20...

16.09.18

Outline planning permission granted for Lowfield Green!

FOUR years after first forming as an organisation… YorSpace can excitedly announced that we have planning permission for our proposals at Lowfield ...

25.05.18

Power To Change Community Shares Booster Programme grant award!

YorSpace have been awarded a grant through Power To Change, the independent charitable trust given £150 million from the Big Lottery Fund to suppor...

22.05.18

Exploring community owned renewable energy at Lowfield Green

On 22nd April, YorSpace and York Community Energy put on a joint event to talk about what community energy is and how creating community-owned ren...