Our story

Built from lived experience, not distance.

Radiance is personal to us. The story matters, but so does the work: decent homes, clear partnerships and practical delivery.

Carlton and Tamara together on a woodland path
Why Radiance exists

Personal experience. Practical delivery. Proper homes.

Radiance is built and run by Carlton and Tamara. Between us we have lived through homelessness and temporary accommodation, and our wider family story takes in care, fostering, forced migration, prison, disability and domestic abuse. None of that is abstract to us.

We don’t share it for sympathy. We share it because it sets the standard. When you have lived in housing that made life harder, you know what a good home has to do - and you notice every corner that gets cut.

The work behind it

Housing should feel like a beginning.

The story matters, but the work has to hold up on its own. Between us we bring years of property, operations and hospitality-led accommodation - sourcing homes, preparing them with pride and managing them with care.

Radiance is where those things meet: people who understand what unsafe or unstable housing does, and who can prepare, manage and deliver good homes - built around the next step, not the next night.

For values-aligned property or capital partnerships, we handle those conversations through Prestwich Property.

What we believe

People deserve safety, beauty and pride.

Dignity

A crisis should not mean being spoken down to, placed anywhere, or asked to accept any standard.

Stability

A decent home gives people room to breathe, recover and make clearer decisions.

Hope

The right accommodation can become a launchpad towards the rest of someone’s life.

Let’s create homes that feel like a beginning.

This is the part of the business that means the most to us.