Coin Street Community Builders

Coin Street Community Builders is part of a social enterprise working in Waterloo and North Southwark, London. According to its official site, it started from a rundown site in 1984 and has since helped build a thriving community of opportunity. Its mission is delivered through three distinct organisations: Coin Street Community Builders, Coin Street Secondary Housing Co-operative, and the charity Coin Street Centre Trust. The organisation generates income and reinvests profit into the community, and its 13-acre South Bank site includes co-operative homes, parks and gardens, shops and design studios, galleries, restaurants, a family and children's centre, sports pitches, and community programmes and activities.

Coin Street Community Builders' official site states that the organisation started from a rundown site in 1984 and that, together, a thriving community of opportunity has been built. Its 'Our story' page recounts that in the early 1980s the riverside area by Oxo Tower Wharf was bleak and unloved, with few shops and restaurants, a dying residential community and a weak local economy. That changed thanks to an extraordinary campaign by local residents and supporters, which led to Coin Street's purchase and redevelopment of a 13-acre site. The site is now described as being at the heart of a thriving neighbourhood with co-operative homes, parks and gardens, shops and design studios, galleries, restaurants, a family and children's centre, sports pitches, and a range of community programmes and activities. The same page notes that during the Second World War the South Bank had suffered extensive bomb damage, that further demolition followed in preparation for the Festival of Britain held in 1951, and that by the early 1970s the residential population of the area had fallen from 50,000 to just 4,500. The official site also states that the mission is delivered by three distinct organisations: Coin Street Community Builders, Coin Street Secondary Housing Co-operative, and the charity Coin Street Centre Trust.

A social enterprise that generates income and reinvests profit into its community.

1. 1Home Page | Coin Streetcoinstreet.org
2. 2Our story | Coin Streetcoinstreet.org
3. 3Who we are | Coin Streetcoinstreet.org
4. 4About Us | Coin Streetcoinstreet.org