Homebaked Community Land Trust
Community Land Trust, Neighbourhood Development Agency: Community Assets, Local Economy, Zero Carbon Neighbourhood, Arts and Celebration
My role: Co-founder, director, lead artist, organisational development, engagement & co-design, finance strategy & business planning
Resident-owned and -led regeneration initiative rooted in the neighbourhoods of Anfield and Everton, grew out of Liverpool Biennial Commision 2up2down (Jeanne van Heeswijk).
Homebaked CLT is Britt’s home project, she shaped the initiative as a community activist, embedded lead artist and director for 12 years before moving to Sweden. She continues to be engaged as a director, mentor and cooperative finance strategy lead.
Homebaked CLT is situated on the boundary between the neighbourhoods of Everton and Anfield, just opposite the Liverpool Football Club. The CLT was set up and is led by people with lived experience of failed regeneration in the area and a desire to take back control and work with the skills and potential in their communities, building capacity and confidence to shape a common future and provide for future generations.
Having saved their iconic neighbourhood bakery and adjacent terraces from demolition and renovated the bakery building with a community business space and flat above, they’re now transforming the 9 remaining terraces into a community-owned high street scheme of environmentally sustainable homes and community spaces - Oakfield Terrace.
Alongside the ongoing asset development work, they deliver a creative engagement, co-design and capacity-building programme to develop the skills, ideas and collaboration needed to imagine and build a better future together.
They have developed a vibrant network of local businesses and social service providers, are delivering a programme for community business development and work with local householders and key stakeholders on systemic area-based fuel poverty solutions. Arts and creative practice weave through all the work at Homebaked CLT, may it be in the objects and site specific events they create, how they tell their stories or how they engage in the process of imagining – a home, a space, a way of being together.