Fight
Your
Rent
Rent in Newcastle has gone up 31.7% in five years. Enough.
Since May 2026, renters in England can challenge a rent rise at tribunal for £47. Your landlord is counting on you not filing. We cover the £47 fee and come with you. In Newcastle. For anyone who rents — whatever your situation.
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"I'm so happy for what did about my housing problems, today one of the investigator came and checked the bathroom and the kitchen, and they said they would repair the bathroom next Tuesday and Wednesday and to put a new bathroom and kitchen but after Christmas, if it wasn't for you guys I dont know how long we would have to wait house to get repaired, when they told me they would repair the bathroom next Wednesday I couldn't believe it, I started to cry. Thank you soo much for your help"— Hanan Abdulla, Food & Solidarity member
That's how we work. The tribunal fund applies the same approach to rent rises — we're building it now, and the first case will be published here when it happens.
One tenant at tribunal is a nuisance to a landlord. Twenty is a different conversation. The Renters' Rights Act gave you the right to challenge — this fund removes the financial barrier and puts you in contact with your neighbours.
Sign the pledge — free
Sign the pledge. Takes 30 seconds. We give you an organiser contact and connect you with tenants on your street. No cost, no financial commitment.
Rent rise? Call us.
We come with you — to the tribunal, to the council office, to your landlord's letting agent if it comes to that. We've been to court with members. The £47 fee is covered for Food & Solidarity members. You don't go in alone.
Your street gets organised
We door-knock and connect tenants with shared landlords. At Breamish House, residents organised, took a collective letter to a cabinet meeting, and got repairs within 24 hours after months of nothing.
Solidarity payment
When a member files at tribunal, the group agrees a payment. Our target is within 48 hours of filing. When the first payment is made, the date and amount will be published here.
File a tribunal challenge against a rent increase and you can claim from this fund. Every payment is agreed collectively and published publicly with a reason.
You don't need to know anything about organising or how tribunals work. Call and we'll walk you through it. No judgment, no jargon. We've done this before.
07393 101018 · organiser@foodandsolidarity.org · DM @foodandsolidarity
No payments have been made yet — this fund is new. When the first one is agreed, it will appear here with the date, amount, and reason. View on Open Collective →
To join Food & Solidarity as a member: membership is from £3/month on a sliding scale — unwaged, part-time, minimum wage, higher wage. You set the fee based on your situation. Members get food parcels, collective housing support, and a say in everything the org does. Join Food & Solidarity →
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Contribute to the fundThis fund is new. No payments have been made yet. When the first payment is agreed and sent, it will be published on Open Collective with a full account of why. All contributions are transparent.
Or become a member from £3/month
The first Fight Your Rent Zone is live: four streets in Arthurs Hill where we're organising tenants and targeting landlords raising rents above market rate. If you rent on one of these streets, you get:
- Direct support from an organiser — one call, we take it from there
- A street-level neighbours' group, built the same way we built at Breamish House
- Priority access to solidarity payments from the fund
- An organiser who knows your street and your landlord's history
Arthurs Hill (east) is where we start. Win here and the next zone opens. See the zone in detail →
Not on these streets? Sign the pledge anyway — it's how we decide where zone two goes.
Sign below — digitally or print and return to us. Every signature is a landlord on notice that their tenants are organised.
If my landlord raises my rent, I will challenge it at tribunal.
I will not face it alone. I commit to organising with my neighbours and acting collectively when we are ready.
Food & Solidarity members can claim from the solidarity fund — the £47 tribunal fee and a solidarity payment agreed by the group, paid within 48 hours of filing.
Prefer to sign on paper? Download, print, and return to us.
↓ Download printable pledge (PDF)I commit to showing up and standing with renters in this campaign.
I will give my time, knock on doors, and help reach the renters on my street who don't know they can fight back. I will put a poster in my window.
Prefer to sign on paper? Download, print, and return to us.
↓ Download printable pledge (PDF)Get campaign updates by email — when zones open, when we win, when we need bodies on a doorstep. No commitment, and you can leave any time. Signing the pledge is the thing that actually moves landlords — but if you're not there yet, start here.
We'll connect you with your street, give you an organiser contact, and back you when your landlord raises your rent.
Membership is from £3/month on a sliding scale — you set the fee based on your situation. Members get food parcels, collective housing support, and a say in everything the org does.
Don't wait. Email us or call now and we'll get you support straight away.
Need information in large print, BSL, or another language? Get in touch and we'll sort it.
Membership is how Food & Solidarity keeps running — and it's what means we can show up for you, not just advise you from a distance.
No referral. No one decides if you deserve it first. Fresh produce and basics, collected from Buckingham St twice a month. Over 50 households get them every week. Running continuously since 2020.
When your landlord ignores repairs or raises the rent or sends an eviction notice — members show up. To tribunal. To the council office. To the letting agent. We've been to court with people. We don't wait to find out if the eviction is legal first.
Food & Solidarity is run by members at general meetings — open to all. No managers, no trustees above you. The two-child benefit cap campaign started at a members' meeting. What comes next gets decided the same way.
Or call 07393 101018 to join over the phone
"Two parcels a month help extremely. We are happy and in unity!"
Stella, Walker — member since 2022
"People in your community are there to help you if you need it. We're here to support each other."
Guy, Heaton — member since 2022
"Food & Solidarity helped us face difficult landlords and get what's right by law."
Sue, Gosforth — member since 2023
Food & Solidarity Newcastle
Rent
I have signed the pledge.
If my landlord raises my rent,
I will fight it at tribunal.
foodandsolidarity.org · 07393 101018
The more windows it appears in, the louder the signal to every landlord on your street that their tenants are organised.
Print at home on A4 — or sign the pledge and we'll deliver your choice of poster to your door.
This campaign is part of Resist Rent Rises — tenants unions across England running the same tribunal challenge campaign. The national site has a free tool to check whether your rise should be challenged, published tribunal decisions you can use as evidence, and training sessions across the country.
We've done this before.
We stopped evictions. We picketed letting agents who broke the law. We sat in council offices until something was done. We got the two-child benefit cap abolished. When Breamish House residents had been ignored for months over leaking ceilings and dangerous mould, they door-knocked their own block, collected evidence together, and took a collective letter to a cabinet meeting. Repairs within 24 hours.
Member-led. 350+ members. Est. 2022. Newcastle upon Tyne.
organiser@foodandsolidarity.org · 07393 101018 · @foodandsolidarity
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Ready to fight?
The more people signed up, the more landlords know their tenants aren't alone. Sign the pledge. Put the poster in your window.