Dot Dot Dot Property Guardians |

Improving lives in a housing crisis

Our team is focused on improving lives in a housing crisis by turning properties that would otherwise sit empty, into inexpensive housing. And, because we’re all about making a social impact, the people we house - our guardians - make a commitment to volunteer for good causes each month. Since 2011, we have housed over 2,191 people and supported them to give tens of thousands of hours of voluntary help to a diverse range of charitable causes.

We work with local councils, housing associations, charities and trusts, giving them confidence that their buildings are well cared for while they are awaiting regeneration or sale.

We use the property guardian model to achieve social impact, but are also disrupting the property guardian industry, working to push up standards.

We are one of Britain’s largest social enterprises

Collectively, our guardians have given time worth £6.8m to good causes since 2011; that’s the equivalent of one person working full-time for more than 283 years.

A good deal of the volunteering our guardians do happens because they are kind people who want to make a difference, and would do so whether or not they were housed by Dot Dot Dot.

However, we dug into the numbers and worked out that more than £2.6m of the value of the time guardians have given to charity is directly due to our efforts.

That’s £2.6m contributed to the charitable sector that wouldn’t exist without Dot Dot Dot and its guardians.

We are recognised as a leader in our field

We were named in NatWest’s SE100 Index of leading UK social enterprises. We are also one of the Big Issue’s top 100 Changemakers and a Nesta ‘New Radical’ - naming us among the organisations doing the most to address society’s most pressing problems.

Dot Dot Dot Property Ltd, a company registered in England.