Brighton & Hove Community Housing
Community Interest Company

Company Registration

Brighton and Hove Community Housing is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee. BHCH is registered at Companies House, number 09630201 and regulated by the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.

Articles of Association (constitution)

Key features

• Asset Lock - to protect community assets
• Not-for-profit - 100% of surpluses re-invested
• Members decide on policy not personalities competitions

Primary Object

Provide affordable, secure, and ecologically sustainable housing for low income households

Secondary Objects

Provide premises and funding for the furthering of:

• Ecological sustainability
• Reducing poverty and economic inequality
• Increasing economic democracy and co-operation
• Increasing community productivity

Regulations & Policy

• Privacy & data
• Membership & Constitution
• Property & Tenancies
• Financial & Labour Exchange Hours
• Complaints & Conduct
• Workers Rights

Team

David Walker

Founding Director & Company Secretary

History:

• Employed as accountant in production, wholesale and retail industries
• Private practice for small businesses
• Community organising and political campaigning
• Property management and financing
• Disabled tenant of council flat after 15 years of private tenancies

Neil Whitehead

Project Manager

History:

• Employment experience within digital and multimedia
• Working within the arts and media has lead to a wide range of experience working behind projects and businesses
• From having worked in selling and advertising in business is now driven to work for the community
• Lived in the private rental sector for 12 years
• Keen on achieving housing equity