Buses for the people!
May 11, 2021
Months of campaigning alongside Better Buses for Greater Manchester and other groups recently delivered a victory for ACORN members and everyone involved in the campaign to bring Greater Manchester’s buses into public control, as...
Read More ShareCorona Community Support
April 19, 2021
Brighton members organised one of our biggest community support operations, managing a volunteer network of over 600 volunteers, who were delivering food, prescriptions and vital support to over 400 vulnerable households across the city,...
Read More ShareFight Against Fuel Poverty
January 27, 2021
Once a pioneering example of social housing, Park Hill flats were built for the people of Sheffield. In 2020 when corporate redevelopers Urban Splash hiked heating charges for all residents, at the height of...
Read More ShareACORN Stands With Key Workers
January 06, 2021
Last summer - during the worst public health crisis in living memory - a house of ACORN members, most of whom were key workers in the care sector, came to the union for help...
Read More ShareMember Defence & Community Solidarity
October 13, 2020
Damp, dangerous and unhealthy living conditions, eviction if you dare complain or the landlord wants you out to raise the rent or for no reason at all, repairs not made, deposits and rent stolen;...
Read More ShareAffordable Housing
January 31, 2020
ACORN members have been at the forefront of campaigns for genuinely affordable housing, fighting developers and holding politicians to account over quotas and running community campaigns for new developments to be accessible to members...
Read More ShareRenters' Vote
December 20, 2019
Renters' Vote was an initiative led by ACORN—the union for the community. For the past six years, we’ve been organising renters across the UK. Homeless, temporary housed and private renters—during the 2019 General Election we were aiming...
Read More ShareLetting Fee Ban 2019
July 10, 2019
For years letting agents arbitrarily charged tenants extortionate fees for whatever they could think of: signing a tenancy, printing a contract, reference checks, you name it.
Read More ShareSay ‘no’ to the St. Philips Power Station
June 18, 2019
In May 2019 members in Bristol took action to oppose a new gas-fuelled power station planned to be built just 90 metres from a nursery school serving working class families in the most deprived...
Read More ShareTower Block Safety
May 27, 2019
After receiving a tip-off that a private accommodation block had the same cladding that led to the Grenfell fire disaster Newcastle members demanded that it be removed. After initially denying that it was the...
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