The William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation winner announced

Pride of Place Living took home The William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation for their proposal for a scheme that will create a multi-generational, lifelong and inclusive LGBTQ+ affirmative community, particularly for people over 50. 

With funding provided by Clarion Futures, the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group, Pride of Living Leeds will use part of the £20,000 prize money to deliver workshops which will give the Leeds LGBTQ+ community an opportunity to discuss innovative and inclusive ways to further help shape their plans to identify LGBTQ+ affirmative living spaces with their development partner. 

Presenting this year's virtual prize, one of the judges, Jeremy Porteus the founder and CEO of the Housing LIN, said:

"We were all impressed by this year's range of applications, but we were most impressed by the quality of Pride of Living Leeds' submission and their plans to co-design a new LGBTQ+ inclusive community in the city."

Insightful Allocations, a University of Birmingham research project on psychology of poverty on how such an innovative approach can better understand and assess future allocations to social housing, was also highly commended by the judges.