Quaker housing charity talks to Edinburgh Quakers

‘There are brilliant charities out there creating housing and we would like to support more of them.'

Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) has said that a fall in donations is limiting their ability to meet the demand for their funding support.

The group made awards totalling £171,191 in 2022, with projects in Scotland including Street Connect Glasgow’s proposal to buy a two-bedroom flat for individuals affected by drug and alcohol addictions. QHT also provided a grant and loan for Common Ground on Homelessness Edinburgh to buy a house and convert it into eight self-contained flats for people moving on from homelessness. Meanwhile, Strathglass and Affric Community Group were supported to convert a former doctor’s surgery into two family homes for key workers to support a ‘fragile, rural community’ with little affordable housing, mostly due to holiday homes.

Edinburgh Quakers highlighted the issue in this month’s Terrace Talk newsletter: ‘There are brilliant charities out there creating housing and we would like to support more of them. In recent years, there has been a significant fall in donations made by Meetings and Friends which severely limits our ability to make awards. Regular donations [and legacies] would increase the number of projects we can fund.’

Mark Bitel, clerk of QHT, spoke to this appeal at Central Edinburgh Meeting on 5 February.

Set up in 1967, QHT provides grants and loans for social housing projects for those in genuine housing need.

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