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Learn moreIf your landlord wants you to leave,
Umoja can pay you to co-operate.
Cash for co-operating with the move — no eviction, no conflict.
as a cash Karibu Award — yours for co-operating with the move.
Assumes about 4 months’ rent set aside. Your final award scales with your Umoja Score and the fund your landlord sets.
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What is Umoja?
Umoja means unity in Swahili. We help landlords and tenants work together when a landlord needs their property back.
When a landlord needs vacant possession from a tenanted property — to sell, re-let, refurbish, or move back in — the usual options are slow, adversarial, or both. Umoja offers a different path: we pay you a cash reward — the Karibu Award (karibu means welcome in Swahili) — for co-operating and moving on to your next home.
Your only job is to keep paying rent, allow reasonable access, and vacate by the agreed date. In return, you receive a cash payment from Umoja — not from your landlord — once you’ve moved out.
How It Works
Three steps from invitation to Karibu Award
Your landlord invites you
If your landlord lists their property on Umoja, you receive an invitation to join the scheme. Signing up is free, and your existing tenancy agreement carries on as it is. You sign a Tenant Reward Agreement directly with Umoja — not with your landlord — which means your Karibu Award is paid to you by Umoja, independently of your landlord.
Carry on as normal
Keep paying your rent. Allow reasonable access. Look after the property as you would anyway. That’s it — the system is designed so that doing what any good tenant would do is enough to score well.
Vacate and get paid
When the time comes, you have a 14-day exit window to vacate at a time that suits you. Submit your departure evidence through the platform and your Karibu Award lands directly in your bank account. You get at least 3 months' notice, and the date can be adjusted by mutual agreement if circumstances change.
Any part of the Karibu Award you don’t earn goes to Dementia Carers Count — never back to your landlord.
Dementia Carers Count is a small national charity supporting those who care for a loved one with dementia. They believe that no dementia carer should feel overwhelmed or alone. They run a free and confidential Carer Support Line, with calls answered by a team of specialists. Carers can share whatever they are struggling with and Dementia Carers Count's advisors will help them to access the right support. This might include free counselling sessions, support navigating complex systems or practical help with admin. They also run virtual and in-person peer support groups, helping dementia carers to feel less isolated. Their latest research shows that 4 in 5 dementia carers are reaching crisis point and 3 in 4 often feel they simply cannot continue. Dementia carers may be navigating sleepless nights, extreme anxiety, wandering and complex personal care, while managing their own health, the needs of other family members, and finances. Many are doing this without any support. Dementia Carers Count exists to improve dementia carer mental health and resilience, prevent carer breakdown, and equip carers with the tools they need. One carer told them: "It felt so reassuring and an absolute blessing to speak, for the first time ever, to someone who actually knows dementia and has time to listen." All donations go towards running their Carer Support Services.
Dementia Carers Count · Charity No. 216613
Find out more about Dementia Carers Count