This is not your average house share. We are a 9 bedroom housing cooperative looking for 3 new members to make this their home for a minimum of 2 years.
How to live here:
Read information below and email us, we’ll send you an application form and access document (we’re sadly our home is not accessible for wheelchair users)
Fill in application form and come to view the house and have a chat with us
Come for a one week taster visit
Move in for a 3 month trial
Only after the 3 month trial can you become a member and receive secure housing. Housing cooperatives do this because most people have never lived in a co-op and it gives people a genuine chance to see if the co-op suits them.
Rooms available:
1 x double Bedroom ready from Dec 2024
2 x Double Bedrooms ready from Jan 2024
At £220 per month for a large double room, in a large house with guest space, massive community kitchen, activities room and two living rooms and a massive garden we offer genuinely affordable rent, in line with local housing benefit allowances, in Sheffield.
How? We are a housing co-operative – this means we do not have a landlord who profits from our rent and we keep costs low by doing much of the household upkeep ourselves.
Rent & Bills:
The minimum monthly total cost at Brambles is £459 per month. This would cover food costs, rent and bills.
Rent £220-£420 / month. Our rent is on a sliding scale, so if you have more money you pay more. Rent goes up or down based on income, savings and inheritance. The minimum rent available is £50 per week/£220 per month.
Bills £65 per month cover everything from internet to council tax, house insurance and gas & electric
Food £6 per day / £174 per month costs all food is communal and costs a £6 per day contribution. If you’re not here, or eat out, you don’t pay.
People can only live at Brambles if they are willing to talk openly about their finances and other privileges they may have.
Commitments/Being a Housing co-op Member:
Being a member of a co-op is not like renting from a private landlord. We decide everything together and nobody makes any money from the rent, no individual owns the house and nobody can sell it.
We’re not you’re average house share and require a level of commitment from our members.
One night a week we all cook a communal meal for everyone
Fortnightly we have a two hour meeting
once a month we all commit a day to doing maintenance work at Brambles (painting, fixing broken fences etc) and
Everyone who lives at the co-op has a role such as making sure the garden is looked after, managing our bills, responding to emails and admin, community outreach.
The main aim of Brambles is to give its members control over their housing in order to create an affordable, supportive and secure space to live. This enables our members to not simply work for profit but to pursue more creative and socially responsible jobs and activities. Brambles also aims to act as a springboard for social change work – offering space for activists, grass-roots organisations and local community to utilise and come together.
About the people:
We’re a 7 people in our twenties, thirties and forties with different needs, backgrounds, sexualities, genders, etc… All of us are active in unpaid community work in some way and have shared values around anti-oppression and thinking communally.
About the house:
Our home is made up of two large houses, on top of a big hill. We have 9 double bedrooms plus a large attic space which is the available guest space for when friends visit. There are 3 bedrooms in one house and 6 in the other – the houses are connected through the back and all of us share one large kitchen and communal space.
We have 3 toilets and two showers/baths – plus we have an outdoor fire bath!
We grow food in the garden and greenhouse and have a large wood processing area, outdoor workshop, bike shed and large composting area.
The houses are old, all bedrooms are well kept and some parts of the communal spaces are sparkly new like our really good triple glazed windows, an activity room that can be used for community meetings and a ‘being built as we write’ brand new kitchen – other parts are in need of work – this is the work of people living here to do!
Location:
We are lucky to live in Burngreave with good neighbours on a quiet street just 5 mins walk from the amazing local shops and restaurants of Spital Hill. Walk out of the house in different directions and you’re quickly at Burngreave cemetery and Parkwood Springs. Within 25 minutes you can walk to town and within 15 minutes walk to a bus that will get you direct to the Peaks. There is a bus stop 2 minutes walk from our door.
