£30m from Gloucestershire County Council's pension pot helps tackle housing crisis

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Dear readers,

Welcome to Monday’s edition of The Raikes Journal. I hope you had a great weekend. If you watched the football on Sunday, and you were supporting England, it certainly ended on a high!

Today we run with an eclectic mix of tales, diary dates and news from around the county, and for the main story revisit a story we first reported on back in January.

It was certainly worth telling the tale back then - how millions of pounds from a local authority pension fund was to be invested instead in helping tackle the housing crisis (a challenge nationwide, not just in Gloucestershire).

But would it work? The firm behind the bold move came back to us with an update. We cover that off below.

Have a great week.

Best regards,

Andrew.

Andrew Merrell (editor).

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