Funding 2016–present  

Frameworks Institute 
Developing language that builds public support for housing, Talking About Housing uses social science to affect change. 

Homeless Link
Scaling up the Housing First model, which gives people who are homeless affordable, stable housing as an important first step.

Housing Justice
Exploring how surplus land owned by faith organisations can be used for truly affordable housing across Wales.

Knowle West Media Centre 
Expanding the We Can Make project that unlocks plots of land and builds truly affordable homes on post-war housing estates.

National Housing Federation
Developing the Homes at the Heart campaign, which aims for social housing to be central to the post-Covid economic recovery.

Town and Country Planning Association
Drafting and gaining support for a Healthy Homes Bill that will legislate for improved decency standards in new homes.

Infrastructure support
One of the Nationwide Foundation’s aims for the Backing Community-Led Housing programme is that the infrastructure of the community-led housing sector should be strengthened. To deliver this we have funded various organisations to explore how infrastructure support can be provided, particularly through regional support hubs.

Communities Housing Trust
Supporting community-led housing across central and northern Scotland.

East Midlands Community-Led Housing
Supporting community-led housing across the East Midlands.

South of Scotland Community Housing
Supporting community-led housing across the south of Scotland.

Other funding
CAF Venturesome (Community Led Housing Fund)
Investing in CAF Venturesome’s Community-led Housing Fund, which hopes to deliver around 1,000 truly affordable homes.

Community Land Trust Network
Funding Community Led Homes, a partnership organisation offering support and guidance to community-led housing groups.

Community Land Trust Network
Supporting the ongoing work of the Community Land Trust Network, which assists groups in England and Wales.

Wales Cooperative Centre
Backing community-led housing groups in Wales, Communities Creating Homes provides expertise and support to new projects.

Tenants’ voice
One of the Nationwide Foundation’s aims for the Transforming the Private Rented Sector programme is that tenants should be central to any changes to the private rented sector. To support this endeavour, we have funded a range of tenants’ voice projects to ensure that the voices of the nation’s renters are heard when new policy is developed.

Camden Federation of Private Tenants
Helping empower renters in Camden and making sure that their voices are heard in debates about their housing. 

Citizens Advice
Forming a panel of private renters across England and publishing reports that track change in England’s private rented sector. 

Housing Rights
Helping empower renters in Northern Ireland and making sure that their voices are heard in debates about their housing. 

Living Rent
Empowering renters in Glasgow to expand their tenants’ union, so that they have a collective voice in debates about their housing. 

Shelter
Using a community organising model to empower renters across the West of England Combined Authority.

Tenants Union
Supporting Greater Manchester tenants to write a manifesto, so that those seeking public office can better represent their needs.

Z2K
Seeking to empower renters in London and making sure that their voices are heard in debates about their housing. 

Other funding
Fair Housing Futures
Collaborating to find and fund system-wide solutions to transform renting in Greater Manchester for vulnerable tenants.

Generation Rent
Positively influencing the upcoming Renters’ Reform Bill, this coalition is made up of renters’ support organisations.

Indigo House
Seeking to understand the impact of changes to private renting in Scotland, Rent Better will share lessons for reform elsewhere.