Got A Spare Room?
Sat 08 Aug
|Trinity Rooms
Join us on the 8th August for a public meeting and Q&A on the benefits of hosting a lodger in your home
Time & Location
08 Aug 2026, 15:00 – 17:00
Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ, UK
About the event
Got A Spare Room?
The event will be hosted by local community organisers Jade Bashford and Louise Romain, with the participation of District and County Councillors from the Housing Committee.
How can we redistribute our housing infrastructure and tend to local people’s needs? If this topic matters to you and you’ve got a spare bedroom, join a public meeting on August 8th 3-5pm, at the Trinity Rooms in Stroud.
In England, 2 out of every 5 bedrooms are not being slept in, creating a startling number of 30 million empty bedrooms. In the Stroud District alone, we have 25,000 more bedrooms than people. Maybe we don’t suffer from a housing shortage, but rather from unequal distribution.
The public meeting will be friendly, informative and supportive. You will learn about the rules and regulations, the key differences between hosting a lodger and a tenant, the economic and social benefits of shared…