The Carnegie UK Trust with support from Community Finance Solutions at Salford University has been selected by the UK Government Department for Communities and Local Government to receive financial support from the Empowerment Fund to promote and support Community Land Trusts (CLTs.) This support runs from 2009 to 2012.

The project builds on the achievements of the CLT National Demonstration Programme, which ran between 2006 and 2008.

The work seeks to establish a sustainable and independent National CLT Network that provides high quality legal, financial and procedural advice services to the growing number of CLT groups. The management and support for the network is being done by the National Housing Federation.

The work also seeks to look into establishing a regional support network for CLTs in England. A model regional support body or 'umbrella' organisation has been centred in Somerset, Dorset and Devon to look into how this model will operate. This work is being led by a partnership between Wessex Community Assets and Resonance Ltd.

Carnegie UK Trust welcomes the guidance of representatives of the Development Trusts Association, Homes and Communities Agency, National Housing Federation, Tudor Trust, Tenant Services Authority, CDS Co-operatives alongside CLT practitioners in the oversight of this work.

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