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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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