Paul Kelly

Paul has been working in the field of community development, housing led regeneration and cultural programming for the past 30 years. For twelve years Paul led the community development function of Liverpool Housing Action Trust, a major housing led regeneration programme, where he first started to support communities to take control of their housing. At this time Paul started a long term interest in commissioning socially engaged artists to operate within a community-based context.
Since then, Paul has worked on Merseyside’s Housing Market Renewal Programme, was Community Empowerment Manager with Community Gateway Association for five years and recently worked to establish Breaking Ground, the Liverpool City Region Community-led Housing Hub. Paul is an
accredited community led housing adviser.
Paul was a founder member and Company Secretary of Homebaked Community Land Trust between 2012 to 2020 and has been a Fellow of the RSA since 2006. Paul joined the Board of the National Community Land Trust Network in January 2021 and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. Paul is also an Associate of the Confederation of Cooperative Housing.