About us
We provide decent affordable accommodation for people that are homeless or in housing need. Canopy provides a ‘self-help’ housing opportunity for people that are homeless, which means they have the opportunity to participate in the renovation and decorating of their new home alongside the volunteers and can choose how they would like their house to look prior to moving in.
We work with volunteers to retrofit empty homes to AECB Carbonlite Standards using natural, breathable materials such as woodfibre, hemp and lime. The healthy, energy-efficient homes we create are used to accommodate people in severe housing need, who become part of the volunteering team before they move in.
Our volunteers are an enthusiastic, interesting and diverse group of people from the local community and they do the practical work to renovate the houses, including light building work, plastering and painting & decorating .
Canopy brings together many individuals from different communities in the local area, including people from different age groups and with differing abilities. Canopy facilitates an opportunity for people from different backgrounds to interact and learn from each other’s experiences and skills. There is a real need for projects like Canopy that can pull different strands of the community together and overcome ignorance and prejudice.