Community Property Trusts

A Community Property Trust is a company which is owned by its community. It allows villages and small towns to own land as a community, and to use it for the benefit of the community. For example, they can:

build housing for local people who cannot afford high property prices
build workspaces for businesses, to provide jobs for local people
start catering or other food businesses, using local food and supplying local schools
let farms they own to small organic farmers

To find out more about community property trusts, follow the links below:

‘For practical information on setting up a community property trust click here www.communitylandtrust.org.uk

To read about the work being done in High Bickington, click here

Wessex Reinvestment Trust is working with West Dorset Food and Land Trust and the Countryside Agency to establish the Bridport Community Property Trust. More details of this will be available soon.