Supporting Canopy Housing to empower the homeless

In Canopy Housing's local area, homelessness and derelict houses have long affected the community. The organisation aims to resolve both these problems by training volunteers to retrofit properties to the Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) CarbonLite Standards. This creates safe, affordable homes for vulnerable people while giving them valuable life and employability skills. 

“nBS Foundation has provided a really generous grant to help towards carrying out the project. Working with volunteers on site can be a slow and expensive process, so we need grants from organisations like nBS to make it work.”

David Nugent, Chief Executive of Canopy Housing

The organisation helps more than 100 volunteers every year and has converted a total of 80 properties. Funding from the nBS Foundation meant the charity could renovate four more Victorian terraces into low-carbon homes using bio-based materials and run workshops to teach people about its projects. 

Catherine Turner from the nBS Foundation Panel said:

“We chose to provide funding to Canopy Housing because they deliver really ambitious projects. What they do also aligns with many of the areas that the nBS Foundation was set up to support, including sustainability, upskilling and employment, and innovation.”