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CCH Bulletin January 2006 : Community Gateway - The Gateway Opens

The Newsletter for the Co-operative Housing Movement in England and Wales.

In this issue :

The Gateway Opens
After over two years hard work, tenants in Preston launched the first Community Gateway Association on 7th December 2005. With 605 tenant members at the point of transfer, Preston City Council's 6,500 homes transferred to the Preston Community Gateway Association on 28th November 2005.
How do you make a gate?
25 tenants & 2 officers joined Nic Bliss & Charlie Baker from the Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) and Ruth Miller from Birmingham Co-operative Housing Services (BCHS) at a training course on Community Gateway at the National Tenants Resource Centre between 28th & 30th November 2005.
A qualified thumbs up... but where's the money?
David Miliband's arrival as Minister for Communities has led to various interesting developments for community controlled housing. His Together We Can programme, set up as a 'national drive to pass power, influence and control over local services to local people' is to be welcomed, and it was through this initiative that communication has recently been resumed between the community controlled housing sector and Government.
High Bickington Community Property Trust
As interest in Community Land Trusts grows we print here the following article on the High Bickington Project in North Devon. We feel that projects like High Bickington may be the start of a movement towards a co-operative model of Housing for Rural Areas.
Co-op Facts
Large segments of the population are members of co-operatives.
The International Co-operative Alliance & ICA Housing
When we are involved in our housing co-operatives it is easy to forget that we do not exist as a single entity but belong to a world-wide family of different co-operatives. In the UK most of us are familiar with 'The Co-op' shops and The Co-op Bank . What is not so widely known is that co-ops are found in all parts of the economy of many countries.

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