Bishop’s Castle is a picturesque market town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. The town is well known to be a lively market town with a strong agricultural history.Over the centuries, Bishops Castle has become a vibrant, mixed community, including tradespeople, forestry and farm workers, professionals, artists, musicians, writers and craftspeople.

The Bishop’s Castle and District Community Land Trust (BCCLT) was launched in 2007, with the aims of providing affordable housing to local people, providing premises for small businesses, to provide land for allotments, market gardens, orchards and woodland. (For more details on these core aims, see our information page)

Community Land Trusts are democratic and locally controlled, and will be of use to their communities for a very, very long time! They own land to be used for the good of the community, do not aim to make a profit, are controlled by shareholders, and encourage as many local residents as possible to be shareholders.BCCLT also welcomes shareholders who may not live in the area but who wish us well and share our aims.

If you are a resident (or a fan!) of  the Bishops Castle district and you aren’t a shareholder yet, what are you waiting for? You can buy shares in the BCCLT by clicking the “Join Now” button, and as well as owning shares in the Land Trust, you will also be entitled to vote,propose motions and stand for election to the Board if you wish, at the BCCLT’s Annual General Meeting. You can sell your shares back to the Land Trust if necessary, and the minimum stake is £5.