Achievements

ACORN’s newest London group has launched as members across Tottenham came together to start winning on the streets of Tottenham! After months of hitting the streets of Haringey, doing stalls, visiting colleges and community...

In March this year residents from one sheltered housing scheme approached ACORN Swindon. Residents felt unsafe, neglected, and annoyed that they were paying for a service which was being cut. After a solid 9 month campaign, all...

Brighton rents are amongst the highest in the country, with half of renters in the region experiencing illegal activity from their landlord. ACORN Brighton members have been fighting against one of the most powerful...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...