We design, make & deliver low-carbon, affordable homes. CEO @Agile_Homes @Agile_DesignUK. Cofounder @WeCanMakeHomes @ModCellTweet Nesta New Radical. FRSA
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🌍 Earth the prize in the universe's lottery. The improbability of its existence highlights its exquisite uniqueness. Please handle with care!
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#universe #lottery #improbability #Earth engadget.com/2016/02/19/exop…
ALT NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured this unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon.
The future of housing starts in a forest!
We call it:
From Field & Forest to Front Door.
Nature captures carbon.
We store it in homes.
We create credits for the carbon storage & social impact to reduce the cost of homes.
Providing affordable homes for people in housing need.
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This week we welcomed 20+ colleagues from across government, local authorities, and industry to the CLiCs Centre - Centre for Low & Innovative Carbon Solutions.
We co-hosted the day with Richard Stanford, CEO of the Forestry Commission.
The day focused on a simple but powerful idea:
The future of housing starts in a forest.
The proposition we describe as:
From Field and Forest to Front Door.
Nature captures carbon.
We store it in homes.
We create credits for the carbon storage and social impact to reduce the cost of those homes.
The day was not just about materials, it was about natural, human and financial ecosystems:
Forestry as Infrastructure - a strategic national resource.
Distributed Manufacturing - replacing high-risk, capital-intensive factory models with localised agile systems of delivery.
New Finance Flows - unlocking land and reducing cost of delivery through Carbon and Social Value Trading.
Delivering Social Impact at Scale - through programmes like Prisoners Building Homes and providing safe, civil, low carbon affordable homes for people in housing need.
We do housing as if people and nature matter!
#F4D #lowcarbon #affordablehomes #BuildWithCarbon #forestry
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We’ve just submitted a planning application for Halton Senior Cohousing Group!
Lucy Wood and Pat Steward worked closely with HSCG, a wonderful group of over 55s who choose to live together as a community.
Fourteen homes, shared landscaped gardens and a common house where neighbours will meet, eat and share support with each other.
At Agile Homes we know that interdependence and independence combined for later life works.
The landscape design is core to how the design works, swales, planting and people flow together. We were able exceed the Biodiversity Net Gain target entirely on site, in a relatively dense layout. Ground screws, rather than trench foundations keeps the hydrology of the site intact!
The whole, definitely greater than the sum of its parts!
#Cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes
Education, Education, Education!
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A pleasure to host the @educationgovuk & @ForestryComm at our centre for Low and Innovative Carbon Solutions.
We talked all things timber, skills training & education, affordable homes & schools estate. A b
We’re called Agile Homes but we also do low carbon affordable schools, because schools, community & housing are always interwoven.
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NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta @CREACleanAir
Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO
ALT China’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals until September 2025. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration. The consumption of petrol, diesel and jet fuel is adjusted to match quarterly totals estimated by Sinopec.
It’s cold and wet!
At Agile we know why we do what we do. Here’s our why.
#affordablehomes #HousingCrisis #homelessness
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Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions.
This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…
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Volunteering with Crisis at Christmas makes a massive difference to the lives of our guests.
But if you get sponsorship for your volunteering shifts, every minute of volunteering will also be helping even more people in the year ahead.
Find out how - bit.ly/4rbcs0E
ALT Two individuals sharing a joyful moment at a "Crisis at Christmas" charity event, sitting at a table decorated with festive elements. Caption reads - With your help we can support people out of homelessness.
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Join a free in-person event to find out about healthy, low-carbon insulation. Talks, CPDs, tours & practical workshops are taking place in Cumbria, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Powys and Midlothian.
It’s Natural Fibre Insulation Week 2025. asbp.org.uk/nfi-week-2025
#NFIWeek2025
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Regenerative thinking when using timber looks beyond “do no harm” and sources materials that encourage biodiversity net gain.
Learn about forest biodiversity metrics, supply chain mapping, and how certification underpins responsible sourcing. 25 Sept 2025 asbp.org.uk/events/bridging-…
Cohousing with a difference!
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We have just submitted a planning application for 14 new homes and Common House for Halton Senior CoHousing group, but this one is a little different!
We call these homes Tam, and they can move!
But these are definitely not caravans! Instead they are built to meet and exceed Building Regulations like any other homes. Triple glazed and super-insulated, airtight and made of renewable materials, they are truly low-carbon.
So, we can lay them out using new and innovative integration with landscape and SUDs, creating a more coherent whole!
This is why we’re called Agile Homes!
We have worked closely with planners the local authority, landscape designers and engineers. A community-led development that sets a new and innovative standard for senior living.
Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward and the rest of the team at Agile!
#cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes #SUDs #landscape
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Did you know there is another way to get all the convenience of modern living whilst being more environmentally friendly? 🙌
Discover how
afairersociety.com/rethink-c…
#SustainableLiving #CohousingUK #AFairerSociety #CommunityLiving #CostOfLiving #CohousingSolutions
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Grim concrete apartment towers once dominated cities in the former East Germany. Can modern prefab buildings win over new fans? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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China's July 2025 solar production was ~50% higher than its July 2024 solar output!
China's solar generated 839 TWh in 2024 and will likely exceed 1,200 TWh in 2025.
China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand.
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Brazil’s retreat from supporting plastic bans at UN treaty talks leaves climate campaigners worried about COP30 ambition. buff.ly/nf5wvku
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In Iraq, temperatures are pushing 50 °C—demand for air-con has overwhelmed the grid, shutting key transmission lines and cutting over 6,000 MW, triggering a nationwide blackout. These extreme temps are deadly, putting millions at severe risk. #ClimateCrisis
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Wind & solar generated 57.5% of Germany's electricity in June 2025!
That is up from 47.7% in June 2024 & double the 28.8% in June 2021.
W&S output surged 33% to 21.1 TWh in June 2025 from 16.6 TWh in June 2024.
Germany is the world's 3rd largest economy.
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Interesting - yet another..
Food companies to begin tests on greenhouse gas footprinting
@WRAP_NGO thegrocer.co.uk/news/food-co…
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Could you be Agile’s investor 94?
🎉 Agile Homes is turning six years old as a startup! But where do startups get their investment from and how?
Vision and values lead the way, of course and we’re proud to be building low-carbon, affordable homes for people in housing need.
We couldn’t have done it without 93 amazing investors who backed us through HMRC’s Enterprise Investment Scheme. Agile gets rocket fuel to scale what we do and investors get to be part of the journey as well as tax relief on investment! Thank you HMRC!
We also have some new and exciting news!
With perfect timing, on the same day Rachel Reeves announced £39 bn in grants for new and affordable homes, Agile signed an agreement for a significant equity investment into the business!
I’d like to say we planned this with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but we’ll take the synchronicity win as a good sign!
Perhaps more importantly, this investment comes with a £25 m fund to pay for the building of new homes! The first projects will start on site in early 2026, and we will be building high-quality, low-carbon homes for people in profound need! Holding to our vision and values throughout! Watch this space for more on this.
If you’re interested in becoming Investor 94, we’d love to hear from you!
In the meantime you can see more of our work at agile.property
At Agile we’re building homes that don’t cost the earth. 🌍🏠
The important information:
If you’re a high-net-worth individual or a self-certified sophisticated investor and interested in investing in Agile, please email [email protected] or DM me here.
NB Capital is at risk. Investments in unlisted shares may not be suitable for all investors and applies to UK taxpayers only. Tax relief will depend on individual circumstances and is subject to change by HMRC.
#AgileHomes #AffordableHousing #ImpactInvestment #LowCarbonLiving #HousingCrisis #SocialImpact #EISinvestment #EIS #StartupMilestone #HomesThatDontCostTheEarth
Rare groove housing!
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In other news.
Rare groove housing!
What's that?
Here's a taster!
In a world where an affordable home is the oxymoron of our time, it's time to get radical.
People are you ready?
It’s time to get on the bus! 🚌
Visit agile.property to see how.
#raregroove #funky #lowcarbon #affordablehomes