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Witton Lodge Community Association: making a success of community ownership

Performance Indicators

The performance of WCLA can be seen through a number of measures – the level of volunteering, the use of the community hall and mixed tenure.

Volunteering:

  • The volunteer base operating within the community hall is currently 31 volunteers - 23 residents in addition to the 8 Resident Directors, who work in various capacities on a voluntary/unsalaried basis. Around another 30 volunteers are available when needed and this number, as well as activities within the hall is growing daily.

Use of Perry Common Community Hall:

  • Regular footfall to the hall is approximately 210 persons per week. Some clients attend multiple times, so the actual number of individuals using the hall would be slightly less. This usage can be broken down as follows: 
    • NHS sessions (GP referral only): 45 (patients come to regular health sessions, such as pain management and Pilates classes)
    • Classes open to public:  75
    • Meetings (on average, 2 per week) :  20
    • Parties (on average, 1 per week): 70

Mixed tenure:

There was a strong desire on the part of WCLA to achieve as much ‘affordable social housing’ as possible. All of the Association’s dwellings are built to an extremely high standard. Phased development over 6 stages since 1995/6 has achieved for the total number of units:

  • 49% of homes for traditional rent and shared ownership
  • 2% projected homes for Private Equity for shared ownership
  • 46% projected homes for outright sale
  • Approximately 54% total projected affordable homes to be created
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Patricia Jones

Honorary Fellow

Third Sector Research Centre

University of Birmingham

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p.a.jones.1@bham.ac.uk


Pat Jones wrote this case study for Governance International on 14 June 2012

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