💚 Thanks again to everyone who supported us. From people like Andres, Chelsea, Dan, Laurie, Maja, Nemone, Sam and Stuart, to everyone who backed a book, a report, or a year of Solidarity Tier access, your support is helping us rebuild LandExplorer. Thank you. 💚

We did it!! 🎉 The LandExplorer crowdfunder closed yesterday and we raised £9,140, which is £1,140 over our original goal. Thank you to every single person who backed it, shared it, or forwarded it to someone who would find the tool useful.

‼️ We hit our £8,000 goal 🎉 thank you to everyone who backed us! we've set a new stretch goal of £9,500. every pound goes directly into more development time for LandExplorer. closes @ noon TODAY! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

One day left. We've raised nearly 75% of our £8,000 goal and close tomorrow at noon. If you've been waiting, this is it! Rewards include signed books, workshops, research reports and a year's access to new features. Donate here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer thank you!

‼️ We're in the final stretch for LandExplorer's £8,000 goal. Every contribution gives backers a say in what we build first! Lots of rewards still on offer... Closes noon 8 July. 💚 Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

👉 New reward: back our crowdfunder at £120+ and get a one-year subscription to DOPE magazine: a quarterly publication about politics, art, and culture, focused on injustice + the people working to change things. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

Big Solar Co-op use LandExplorer every day as part of their work building solar sites across the UK. We’re crowdfunding to make the tool even better. Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

Most people assume finding out who owns land or property requires expensive software or a solicitor. It doesn't. LandExplorer makes land ownership data across England and Wales free and searchable for anyone. Help us keep it free by backing us here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

'Land Explorer' is a great, free tool for looking up maps of corporate-owned land in England & Wales. I use it a lot for research and investigations. The team behind it are crowdfunding to make it even better in future - if you can chip in, please do so here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...

🎉 NEW reward just added to our crowdfunder: Back us at £40+ and receive a signed copy of Guy Shrubsole's award-winning The Lie of the Land: an investigation into who really owns and controls the British countryside, & what we can do about it. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

The groups doing the most important work on housing justice are rarely the ones with the biggest budgets. LandExplorer has always been free + your contribution keeps it that way and funds new features for everyone! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

£1,500 raised in four days... thank you! 🙏 LandExplorer puts land data in the hands of people who need it: campaigners tracing landlords, communities finding out who owns that empty building, journalists following the money. Help us keep it free. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

Our LandExplorer crowdfunder is live! Help us build new features for the free tool that lets you find out who owns the land around you. REWARDS INCLUDE: ✨ workshops! ✨ signed books! ✨ research reports! ✨ a year's access to all the new features and more! 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explorer

Something we've been building toward is nearly ready. Next week we're launching a crowdfunder to refresh LandExplorer, our free tool for finding out who owns the land around you. More soon!

Who owns the UK's land? We made a quick vid showing how to use LandExplorer to find properties tied to the country's biggest landowners. Here’s how! 👀 www.instagram.com/p/DYmVms6owJ9/

Our May newsletter is out and it's a big one: we're launching a crowdfunder in June to support the next phase of LandExplorer. The free tier will stay + the paid tier will fund the work and gives better-resourced orgs API access and data exports. Supporters get a direct say in what we build first!

LandExplorer is getting refreshed data and new features this year. It'll stay free and we're adding a paid tier so the groups who can pay fund development for the groups who can't. Crowdfunder mid-2026. Full update: digitalcommons.coop/building-tools-for-change-next-steps-for-digital-commons

Our April newsletter is out! Here are some highlights… 🏘️ A new housing justice newsletter from our partners at Shared Assets 🔍 A pro tip for using Land Explorer to map the holdings of large landowners And more... ✉️ Sign up here: digitalcommons.coop/contact/

🧑‍💻 here's how to find the holdings of some of the UK's largest landowners 👀 1. find 1 address tied to the landowner. you currently need at least one address in order to do a more in-depth search 2. go to app.landexplorer.coop/ + sign in (or register) 3. search for the addy in the search bar

In collaboration with Shared Assets, we're launching a newsletter for housing justice organisers 🏠 Grassroots groups fighting bad landlords should have the same data tools landlords have. Sign up to learn more about our free resources, workshops & more 👇 👇 👇 mailchi.mp/sharedassets...

Did you know? The UK Ministry of Defence apparently owns twice the land area of Luxembourg across the UK. Land Explorer makes land ownership visible. Find out who owns the buildings and land in your community by going here 👉 digitalcommons.coop/land-explorer/

The housing system is stacked against the people fighting to change it. Ownership records hidden behind paywalls. Data scattered across systems that don't talk to each other. Years of organising knowledge living in someone's head or a folder no one's opened since 2022.

last chance to apply to this paid opportunity is today!

Digital Commons Cooperative@digitalcommons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you a housing justice organiser looking to work with data to pick apart ownership and rent extraction to build organising power? You’re invited to join our upcoming workshop series on developing data-led investigations on ownership and rent extraction! 👇

We recently sent out our March newsletter... Make sure to join our list to keep up to date with updates to our tools and opportunities to collaborate on tech for good projects! Sign up here 👉 digitalcommons.coop/contact/

Are you a housing justice organiser looking to work with data to pick apart ownership and rent extraction to build organising power? You’re invited to join our upcoming workshop series on developing data-led investigations on ownership and rent extraction! 👇

Do you want to discover who owns the vacant building on your street? Land Explorer lets you search for a location and find out who owns it. You can also use the backsearch function to see what other properties the owner has... Check it out here 👉 digitalcommons.coop/land-explorer/

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Big news… the gov has just announced that it will work with the Land Registry this year to provide access to free, spatial land ownership data covering England + Wales. Making ownership data more open is a crucial first step for communities to be able to push for fairer housing and land systems.

A rare thing happened this week… the DCC team was in one room! We were in London, talking through what's next for our tools, new ways to make land data more affordable, and what the next six months look like. More soon. Subscribe to stay in the loop:

Building housing campaigns often means handling sensitive info. We’ve created a practical data governance guide for grassroots housing organisers. It covers GDPR basics, collecting only what you need, avoiding purpose creep & safer data sharing. 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1DQO-...

Using Land Explorer and want a proper walkthrough? We offer free 1-hour onboarding calls for orgs + community groups. We’ll cover: – Key layers for your work – Smarter searching – Exporting findings – Real campaign examples Email us to book a session hello@digitalcommons.coop