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Our Building resilient communities pillar focuses on repurposing spaces and places that help people and nature thrive. We work with two charity partners, Habitat for Humanity, and the Tree Council, as well as a network of bespoke projects local to our offices around the world, to provide essential needs for communities to have secure and sustainable futures.

Habitat for Humanity - Empty Spaces to Homes

1.3 million people are currently facing homelessness across Europe. This can be exasperated due to various economic difficulties, a shortage of homes, social barriers, and issues related to migration.

This is why we’re working with Habitat for Humanity. Over the last 5 years we’ve embarked on an ambitious partnership, utilising our expertise in social housing to explore the potential of converting empty buildings into homes for vulnerable people across Europe, to help address the housing crises and support people to build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.

The challenge
Research plays a big part in our effort, highlighting the potential in empty buildings. We started with the UK market and found that over 7,000 commercial spaces owned by local authorities across England, Scotland, and Wales could be repurposed to help with the UK's housing needs.

Coalition for change
To act on our research, we launched the Empty Spaces coalition in 2021, which brings together cross-industry stakeholders in the housing sector, to share expertise and develop ways to transform these unused spaces into homes. Together, the coalition has developed a detailed toolkit that provides guidance on how to develop and deliver empty spaces into homes in partnership with local governments and communities.

Ideas into action
Progressing research and advocacy into action, we set up demonstrator projects across Europe and hero projects in cities such as London and Warsaw that show how transforming unused spaces can benefit communities, acting as examples of how these ideas can be scaled.

Empty spaces into affordable and energy-efficient homes
As the initiative moves into its next phase, the lessons learned are being used to create even more opportunities. Together with Habitat for Humanity, we’re exploring the environmental benefits of repurposing buildings to build more resilient and sustainable communities.

In collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, our efforts aim to overcome the obstacles in housing, offering scalable and innovative solutions to meet the urgent demand for affordable housing.

Hear from Jane Rawnsley, Group Head of Corporate Responsibility, on how we’re partnering with Habitat for Humanity, using empty spaces to build future homes for vulnerable groups, with the aim of
creating thriving communities.


The Tree Council - Young Tree Champions

We are working with The Tree Council to give young people the opportunity to connect with each other and nature and develop the skills and knowledge to help tackle the climate and ecological crisis. We support schools most affected by the crisis in urban areas with high levels of deprivation (30% free school meals) and nature-poor grounds.

The Young Tree Champions programme raises awareness of the importance of protecting the environment by creating mini orchards and planting trees in urban inner city schools across the UK.

Bespoke, curriculum-linked resources and activities are hosted on an interactive Young Tree Champions website available to all schools across the UK.

Building Futures Around the World

We have a network of community champions in all our offices and these are an important part of how we connect and support our surrounding communities, leading and promoting local charity fundraising and volunteering.

Working together, we can direct funding and volunteering support in every single community, giving colleagues ownership and the ability to choose where to focus their support.
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M&G plc is a company incorporated and with its principal place of business in England, and its affiliated companies constitute a leading savings and investments business. M&G plc is the direct parent company of The Prudential Assurance Company Limited. The Prudential Assurance Company Limited is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc, a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or Prudential plc, an international group incorporated in England and Wales.

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