Enter before midnight on 30th October 2026 Photograph at the top – credit George Norris People of all ages and experience levels have a last chance to enter the Alec Gill and Giroscope International Photography Competition, and face-to-face help is
Radical ideas, community architecture and the future of housing What can the radical housing ideas of the past teach us about building homes and communities today? On Friday 23 October, architect Duncan Roberts joins Giroscope Project Manager Caroline Gore-Booth for
Author Martin Newman, CEO, Giroscope Yesterday we took ‘From Homes to Communities’ to Westminster, bringing together people from housing, policy, research and community regeneration at the House of Lords to ask an important question: What could be possible if we
Author: Caroline Gore-Booth, Project Manager For me, the value of our Westminster event is the opportunity to connect policy conversations with what actually happens on the ground. Caroline Gore-Booth, Project Manager, Giroscope One of the things about my job at
The camera is a passport into people’s lives – and into people’s homes sometimes. Alec Gill The Alec Gill and Giroscope International Photography Competition opens on 9 July 2026, inviting photographers from Hull, the UK and across the world to
As part of our 40th anniversary celebrations, we’re exploring the big ideas, partnerships and policies that helped transform neighbourhoods with empty homes into thriving communities. For the next in the Giroscope 40: Our Origin Story series, we’re inviting two of
Giroscope is pleased to announce a research partnership with the University of East London (UEL), exploring how self-help housing can help people move on from long-term homelessness or unstable housing. The project brings together Giroscope’s forty years of hands-on experience
The story behind 40 years of Giroscope. In the mid-1980s, a group of young people in Hull stopped waiting for somebody else to fix their neighbourhood. Inspired by punk politics, DIY culture and a belief that housing could change lives,
Before the houses, before the politics, there was sound. For Martin Newman and Robert Amesbury, both founding members of Giroscope, the early days on Wellsted Street were pretty lively. They came with a soundtrack: punk, reggae, soul. The Dead Kennedys,
Giroscope is offering an opportunity to become a Trainee Housing Officer. This is a hands-on role based in the neighbourhood, working with real people and real situations. It’s a way into housing and community work, and a chance to be
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