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CommunityHome is an online marketplace for shelter that connects hosts with campaigners needing a bed. By...

  • Organising and Unifying people around a compassionate circular economic structure.
  • Identifying the harm done by those people, groups and communities in creating wealth and its ongoing accumulation who have a significant influence over whether we can build an economy that is regenerative and redistributive.
  • Lighting the spark for revolutionary, systemic and equitable transformation.

Join the Community

If you are able to host, register as a host, if you are looking for shelter register as a guest or if you have already registered then make a booking.

 

The story. Be a part of our story

While real change depends on mass movements, popular protests and on taking action, the commUnityHome team believes that this kind of popular opposition to the status quo happens in homes and workplaces equally. 

commUnityHome is a nationwide project to find shelter for those in need.  It’s based in the countryside and the city; Cornwall and London.

We are in our second spring, and have become much bigger than the small group of hosts who started with us.  Many of you have shown us that this project matters to you too.

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While real change depends on mass movements, popular protests and on taking action, the commUnityHome team believes that this kind of popular opposition to the status quo happens in homes and workplaces equally. 

commUnityHome is a nationwide project to find shelter for those in need.  It’s based in the countryside and the city; Cornwall and London.

We are in our second spring, and have become much bigger than the small group of hosts who started with us.  Many of you have shown us that this project matters to you too.

We are at a crucial point where we need to keep meeting the demand for shelter using holistic principles, so we are inviting you to be a part of our story.  

We currently shelter an average of … people a week, donating shelter nights to operational partners who work with climate and civil rights’ activists and others in need of shelter.

We are committed to transforming our society from one based on the profit motive to one built on people’s  needs.   We are committed to seeing underneath the social structures - looking at and laying out patterns that are developing across thousands of years.

We believe that all the struggles against oppression are connected. Racism, sexism and every other form of oppression and discrimination are a product of a society based on the exploitation of people by a tiny minority of capitalists. Inequality, like war and climate change, is a symptom of a chaotic system based on market competition.  That poverty and homelessness persist in Cornwall has quite a lot to do with matters that lie beyond Cornwall’s borders. 

Where we are starting from; We are actively involved in protest movements and workers’ struggles around the country, and we are organising to help build solidarity with universal struggles.  We are mobilising the resistance to corporate greed and structural inequality not in workplaces but at home. 

We ultimately seek popular control of society and genuine liberation for all by responding to a need our community wants to see fulfilled. In the process of helping to build every kind of resistance to capitalism, in our fundraising we are putting the case for a two stage approach, creating a timely alternative two- part economic structure:

  1. Redemption - a monetary revolution or mass movement of money from rich to poor, which addresses wealth inequality..
  2. Resilience - a mutualistic economic system which addresses income inequality.
     
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About Us

Lucy, Susan and Ben are supported by groups to match guests with hosts in homes and shelters.

Every day we support hosts by emphasising forgiveness within a broken system. It’s no small task!  By addressing need fulfillment with the 250 million people currently on the move globally and over a billion individuals needing shelter, is not easy!   commUnityHome fosters kindness, solidarity and collectivity, collaborating to create a supportive environment for activists and migrants in need of - or receiving - shelter.

We are starting small, macro-style, using circular mone...Read more

Lucy, Susan and Ben are supported by groups to match guests with hosts in homes and shelters.

Every day we support hosts by emphasising forgiveness within a broken system. It’s no small task!  By addressing need fulfillment with the 250 million people currently on the move globally and over a billion individuals needing shelter, is not easy!   commUnityHome fosters kindness, solidarity and collectivity, collaborating to create a supportive environment for activists and migrants in need of - or receiving - shelter.

We are starting small, macro-style, using circular money transactions. Ismail Ahmed, a Somali immigrant and WorldRemit founder believes that migration and homelessness persist when there is inequality.  We do too.
 

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How We’re Funded

CommUnityHome is a non-profit organisation.   We aim to give & receive money to & from people giving & receiving shelter.  

Funds we raise from supporters directly support a small core team who match hosts with guests and build the host solidarity network.  Our profits will go to 

CommUnityHome is a non-profit organisation.   We aim to give & receive money to & from people giving & receiving shelter.  

Funds we raise from supporters directly support a small core team who match hosts with guests and build the host solidarity network.  Our profits will go to 

  • Our ambassador charity The Blue Lantern
  • Individual campaigners taking part in the basic income trials.

We are not funded directly by corporate partnerships, venture capitalists, paywalls or advertorials.  Because the majority of our income is raised directly we can be independent of partisan or political interests without having to toe the line.   

Donations.  Groups. We receive funding from groups who donate to us on a monthly or one-off basis for the matching service.  Hosts and guests.  We are supported by your operational groups and you can donate to Extinction Rebellion, and Portland Global Friendship Group.  Alternatively, because what we provide extends beyond a matching service - we give to hosts and guests who need it - you could consider one off/monthly donations to us at commUnityHome.  

The platform we use to process the payments has one of the lowest payment processing fees meaning we get to keep more of your donation or investment.  Supporters have flexibility (anything from £1) - which they can edit at any time, depending on their circumstances.

Grant funding will be sought for specific projects across a range of issue areas including financial education and economic opportunity.  These will be specific projects that help us try something unusual without directly affecting our core costs.  We maintain independence accepting a grant or amount awarded. 

Finding shelter for people and supporting hosts continues to be the operational side of commUnityHome while a new economic structure we call a monetised gift economy or National Wealth Service underpins commUnityHome.  

We believe in abolishing debt based currency by connecting people with money and leveraging an economy of kindness.  We are a host solidarity group, a shelter marketplace for campaigners and a new economic structure. 

  

 

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