The Housing Community Summit Art Gallery
The Art Gallery at this year’s Housing Community Summit is brand new for 2025. Step into an immersive experience where photography, visual art, and poetry converge to tell the stories shaping our sector today. The gallery will raise awareness of current challenges in the sector and showcase success stories.
It will also be home for two days to several exhibitors showcasing their work within communities, from charitable organisations to community initiatives and grass root organisations.
The Housing Community Summit Art Gallery will leave you feeling informed, inspired and motivated to make change.
Art supplied by
Kamila Jarczak
Kamila Jarczak is a Polish-born photographer and founder of Women of Newport, a grassroots movement celebrating women’s voices across the city. Living in Wales since 2017, Kamila works professionally in portrait, event, and business photography, while also leading creative, community-based projects.
She has collaborated with diverse groups—including Roma and Bangladeshi communities—and contributed to heritage cookbooks promoting cultural cohesion. Kamila was awarded the GAVO Trustee of the Year and the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award in 2023.
A highlight of her work includes a powerful exhibition with Prince William’s Homewards, spotlighting women recovering from homelessness.
Homewards Newport
Homewards is a five-year locally led programme, created by Prince William and The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, that aims to demonstrate that it is possible to end homelessness - making it rare, brief, and unrepeated.
Homewards is taking a transformative and collaborative approach, working in partnership with six flagship locations from across the UK, giving them the space, tools and relationships to prevent homelessness in their local area. Learnings from the six flagship locations will help to create a tried and tested model that can be scaled across the UK and beyond.
Women of Newport
Founded in 2019, Women of Newport is a grassroots group celebrating the strength, diversity, and achievements of women across the city. What began as a photography exhibition has grown into a movement rooted in connection, inclusion, and creativity.
We work with diverse communities to promote cohesion, empowerment, and belonging—bringing women together through storytelling, workshops, and shared experiences. We support those facing poverty, homelessness, and discrimination, and stand with the LGBTQ+ community, refugees, and others often excluded.
From our Ukraine Appeal to partnering with Prince William’s Homewards, we amplify unheard voices. Our work has featured on BBC Wales and beyond.
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H.E.L.P
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Tyne Housing
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Magenta Living
The concept of LENS was created by local community partners, as we at Magenta, looked at the challenge of engaging people within our communities that we do not often reach. The exhibition showcases individual interpretations of ‘Lived Experiences’.
The art presents a unique representation of personal or collaborative experiences from within our communities. We hope you enjoy looking at a small sample of the LENS artwork from each of the different perspectives.
The art has been produced from within our communities, with groups including young people; colleagues; customers with additional needs; and several others. Each piece offers a unique insight.
Exhibitors
Women of Newport
Founded in 2019, Women of Newport is a grassroots group celebrating the strength, diversity, and achievements of women across the city. What began as a photography exhibition has grown into a movement rooted in connection, inclusion, and creativity.
We work with diverse communities to promote cohesion, empowerment, and belonging—bringing women together through storytelling, workshops, and shared experiences. We support those facing poverty, homelessness, and discrimination, and stand with the LGBTQ+ community, refugees, and others often excluded.
From our Ukraine Appeal to partnering with Prince William’s Homewards, we amplify unheard voices. Our work has featured on BBC Wales and beyond.
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DAHA
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) is an alliance of over 150 registered social landlords and local authorities. We are the leading specialist domestic abuse organisation supporting housing providers to improve their response to domestic abuse, through our membership model, accreditation framework and training packages. Our model for a housing response to domestic abuse is nationally recognised as best practice, through the Domestic Abuse Act Statutory Guidance 2022, and is endorsed by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England & Wales, Nicole Jacobs.
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Housing Diversity Network
Housing Diversity Network is a not-for-profit social enterprise with over 180 member organisations across England and Scotland. Since 2003, we have supported the housing sector to tackle inequality, develop inclusive workplaces and better serve diverse communities. We offer tailored training, consultancy, events and webinars, alongside our well-established Board Programmes and Staff Development Mentoring Programme. These initiatives help organisations unlock potential, build diverse leadership and foster inclusive cultures. Our flexible approach recognises that every organisation is different, and we work closely with each to meet their specific needs and goals in creating a fairer, more equitable sector.
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Independent Age
Independent Age is the national charity focused on improving the lives of people facing financial hardship in later life. We offer free and impartial advice and information and grants for community organisations, and campaign for change to improve the lives of older people in financial insecurity. We support older people facing housing issues and through our policy and campaigns we work to improve the housing system so that older people have better access to homes that are safe, secure and affordable.
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Stop Social Housing Stigma
The Stop Social Housing Stigma campaign is a tenant-led campaign, presenting a positive image of social housing and its tenants and challenging the stigma attached to social housing. SSHS has worked with CIH, TPAS, and academic partners to produce a “Tackling Stigma Journey Planner” – a flexible tool to help tenants and landlords work together to tackle stigma
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Crisis
Crisis is the national charity for people facing homelessness. We know that homelessness is not inevitable, and that together we can end it. Crisis is dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.
Every year, we work directly with thousands of people experiencing homelessness across England, Scotland and Wales. We provide vital help so people can rebuild their lives. We draw on over 50 years of research and practice to discover how best to improve our services, and to campaign for the policy solutions to build a future free from homelessness.
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Homebaked
‘What does it mean to live well, now and for future generations?’
Homebaked CLT was created in response to the decades of challenges connected with top-down regeneration in Anfield, Liverpool. Together as local people, we protect and develop local assets and housing in community ownership. We are a catalyst and enabler for community-led regeneration, creating the necessary local social infrastructure, capacity and collaboration to become more resilient as a community, and to shape our common future. Our focus is delivering genuinely affordable and warm homes, grassroots economic development, climate change mitigation/adaptation and creative and social encounters.
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Tempo
Tempo is a national charity working with housing associations and community partners to build stronger, more connected communities through an assets-based community development approach. Our Time Credits model recognises and rewards residents for sharing their skills and volunteering, helping to reduce isolation, boost wellbeing, and support tenant involvement. In housing settings, we empower people to contribute, shape services, and lead local change—creating more resilient neighbourhoods and improving lives through mutual support and community action.
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The Florrie
The Florrie Community Land Trust is leading a groundbreaking community-led housing project in the heart of Dingle, Liverpool 8. With plans for 97 affordable homes, green spaces, and managed workspaces, the initiative will transform the area and secure long-term economic and social benefits for local people. Rooted in over 135 years of community service through The Florrie, this project continues a proud legacy of community empowerment and people-first development.
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The Whitechapel Centre
The Whitechapel Centre works with people who are sleeping rough, living in hostels, sofa surfing or struggling to manage their accommodation. We are committed to helping people find and maintain a home and learn the life skills essential for independent living. We provide practical, tailored support so that each person can find and sustain a home and achieve their individual potential. We work closely with our partners to develop and influence local and national homelessness strategies, policies and practice. The charity began in 1975 and has grown to provide a wide range of a support across the Liverpool city region.
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