• 1987 – Group forms, trains and develops business package


• 1988 – Attract resources to employ two staff:
  Development Worker – funding via charitable body
  Support Worker – funding via urban programme
  
  Lease first property from local authority (Middlesbrough Borough Council)
  House first young person
  Leased 6 flats from neighbouring local authority (Stockton Borough Council)


• 1989 – Purchase a burnt out property with charitable resources
  Property renovated by local builder
  Frustration with the builder led to the formation of the Key Skills Project where young people took on the renovation of empty properties


• 1991 – Launch of the Key Skills Project to renovate 6 properties over 2 years
  Young people gained construction based skills while renovating empty properties to create supported accommodation for themselves and other young people in housing need


• 1992 – Women's project established, accommodation developed to provide safe and secure housing with female support workers as a response to the problems faced in the private rented sector


• 1994 – Key Skills Project extended to Stockton. Decision taken to take training function ‘in house’ making training systems more accountable and young person focused


• 1998 – Development of rural housing project with the aim of providing supported accommodation for young people in East Cleveland, the rural area to the south of Teesside. The project aimed to provide training opportunities in building/life/social skills through the renovation of empty properties "the Key Skills model". This scheme is now a separate charitable entity – The East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust, providing 6 jobs and housing 10 young people in East Cleveland


• 1999 – Development of Careers Club Project which works with young people aged 16–18. It aims to give young people the confidence, information and direction necessary to achieve their own social and economic goals as a 'stepping-stone' encouraging re-engagement with the world of training and education


• 2000 – Heaven project – purchase and renovation of a former nightclub to create offices, workshop facilities, training rooms, kitchen facilities for independent living skill development. Part of building leased to external organisation to create new funding stream. Building now provides the base for the management and administration of the organisation
  Establishment of Resettlement project funded via Stockton Borough Council Single Regeneration Budget to deliver time limited packages of support to young people moving into a tenancy for the first time and for those experiencing tenancy problems in an effort to sustain existing tenancies


• 2001 – Establishment of Community Campus Trading Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Community Campus '87 Ltd


• 2003 – Youth project funded for a further 3 years, enabling the organisation to run a series of programmes working with young people to promote personal development through informal and formal learning


• 2004 – North East Social Enterprise Partnership winner of Established Social Enterprise award


• 2005 – Inclusion in anti poverty Network LOCIN as a model of good practice in combating social exclusion
  Opening Doors Project, a partnership with Hartlepool New Deal for Communities and Hartlepool Revival providing on site training and learning in construction and contributing to the physical regeneration of homes in the NDC area


• 2006 – Community Campus ’87 re-awarded Investor In People status for the third time


• 2007 – Community Building Venture established a new transitional project developed in partnership with COMMACT (Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development), Community Business Scotland International Renton Development Trust (Scotland), The Hilda Trust and Read Centre, non-governmental organisations working with communities in Southern India. The project aims to create opportunities for young people from disadvantaged areas in the UK to utilise their building and training skills for the benefit of communities in southern India.


• 2008 – Finalist in the academy for sustainable Communities award in Engaging Young People category
  Opening Doors Project extended for a further three years
  Community Building Ventures completes first partnership project where young people from Renton Development Trust, Community Campus '87 working with the Read Centre in Bangalore construct a school building, increasing the number of children of slum dwellers in the city who can be taught