Community Led Housing: From Ashley Vale, Bristol to Europe and North America

- An evening with Anna Hope, Ecomotive

We are excited about this unique opportunity to learn more about the self build and community-led housing sector in the UK and around the World from Anna Hope from Ecomotive.  

Anna Hope was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship in 2018, which is supporting her to visit Germany, Holland, Australia and New Zealand to research alternative models of housing delivery and bring back knowledge to support the growth of the self build and community-led housing sector in the UK. In March she will be in Perth for a week. 

Anna has 18 years’ experience in community self-build, having spent time as a Director of Ashley Vale Action Group and building her own timber-framed home as part of the Ashley Vale self build project in Bristol. She also previously worked for 10 years on science and evidence, policy development and communication in the environment sector.

More recently, caring for her two children has given her a wider perspective on the importance of creating strong, empowered and sustainable communities where people trust one other and help each other out and children can play safely outdoors.

She is one of the founding directors of Ecomotive, a workers’ co-operative which grew out of the Ashley Vale self build project in Bristol. Anna is responsible for coordinating and delivering Ecomotive's collective housing project support program, workshops, tours, events and consultancy services as well as researching new models and opportunities in the community-led self build sector. Anna is currently working to set up a 'hub' for community led housing in the Bristol area, to support the whole sector to grow and learn together.

This event is part of the Sustainable Community Building & Living Series, facilitated by Green Fabric.