Writer and social campaigning activist, Tony Crofts is a Quaker who founded Stonesfield Community Trust in 1993. Stonesfield Community Trust now owns 14 dwellings for letting at affordable rents to young working couples, and single people of all ages, including single parents.  It also owns the village Post Office and the village pre-school premises, and is celebrated as the first successful community land trust set up in Britain since Letchworth Garden City in 1903. In two years’ time, having cleared all of its borrowings, it intends to put its rent flow into improving social services for the young and elderly in the community.
He and his wife Randi (an architect who also designed the second phase of SCT houses) have set up and run for the past 15 years a successful centre training teachers of English as a Foreign Language.  Prior to that he worked for 30 year as a journalist and broadcaster specialising in agriculture and land use.  His book “The Return of the Wild”  deals with the British countryside and the world-wide rural crisis.  
He is currently running a £1million appeal to set up a Quaker land bank to hold property permanently outside the speculative market, providing affordable housing and economic accommodation for social help organisations.
Finds the land and generally gets us moving.