Camden Community Makers Community Land Trust Limited is a charitable company and a Community Benefit Society, registered with the Financial Conduct Authority under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.
- Registration number: 8160
- Registration date: 12 July 2019
- HMRC Charities reference: ZD12240
That means every decision we make is bound by a formal governance structure, and every pound that comes through our work goes back to benefit the wider community — not to shareholders or private owners.
Why our structure matters
Community land trusts exist to hold land and assets in trust for a community, permanently. Ours is also a registered charity, which means we operate under public accountability and reporting requirements, not informal goodwill. When we ask to be trusted with significant space — whether that’s a nature reserve or a stake in Murphy’s Yard — this is the structure that makes that trust enforceable, not just promised.
Read our governing rules (PDF)
Who we are, in practice
We are a group of local campaigners, artists, and crafters, who established Camden Community Makers as a CLT to ensure that development in our part of Camden benefits the wider community that already lives here — not just the people who move in afterwards.
We all live and work in Camden, in the shadow of some of London’s largest developments, including Murphy’s Yard. We’ve seen first-hand how developers can fail to properly account for the needs of the communities already on their doorstep. Our response has never been just to object — it’s to build the evidence, convene the coalition, and put forward a genuine alternative that is inclusive of the local community and is genuinely sustainable for future generations.
- A CLT and charitable structure giving us formal accountability and the legal standing to hold land and assets in trust
- A real asset already in community ownership — Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve, transferred from Camden Council to us in July 2026 after years of campaigning to save it from speculators that came after decades of community stewardship
- Years of direct community engagement — mapping workshops, street parties, and a 2022 charrette convening 14 local organisations, all feeding into a substantive evidence base rather than a one-off consultation
- A track record of shifting outcomes — our charrette report and campaigning contributed to Murphy’s Yard/Folgate reworking its previous (withdrawn) planning application
See what this means for Murphy’s Yard →