Affordable Housing Champion

Affordable Housing Champion

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Summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about championing the need for Rural Affordable Housing in their communities.

Detailed description

Key Roles of an Affordable Housing Champion:

1. Champion the cause of Affordable Housing:

Promote the concept and need for Affordable Housing within your community and with their wider networks. Connect with your Parish and Town Council and district councillor to promote the need for Affordable Housing. Connect to any community-led planning groups to help raise the profile of the need for Affordable Housing.

2. Act as a focal point for Rural Housing Enablers:

Liaise with our Rural Housing Enabler over housing needs and opportunities for promotion.

3. Marketing Housing Needs Surveys:

Liaise with current community marketing resources, to advertise when a Housing Needs Survey is being undertaken. Distribute Housing Needs Surveys amongst community groups and other community outlets such as shops, pubs, schools and local businesses. Encourage people with a local connection to the village to complete the form and apply for housing on Gloucestershire Homeseekers.

4. Identify anyone in the Parish with a housing need:

Connect to your community to identify anyone who is in housing need to encourage them to complete a Housing Need Survey.

What we will provide to volunteers

💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra support
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About GRCC

We’re GRCC, a registered charity helping Gloucestershire’s communities since 1923. The official full name of our charity is Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, but we work in both rural and urban areas, and we generally just go by our initials, GRCC. If you want to learn more about what we do, contact us at 01452 528491 or [email protected].