How it works
The member journey end to end — join, contribute, capital pooled, business case approved in London, project executed in Nigeria, returns paid.
Who we are
A Nigeria-focused mass-housing and infrastructure investment cooperative, registered in the United Kingdom, that turns members’ capital into homes — and into skilled people.
UK ULDA is registered at Companies House as ULDA & PARTNERS COOPERATIVE LTD: a company limited by guarantee that serves its investment-fee contributing members in the United Kingdom. It works in close partnership with a Nigeria-based entity, Universal Learn Direct Academia Ltd — ULDA.
Our mission and vision
Our mission
We are a cooperative society of like-minded real estate social investors who, while seeking legitimate and competitive profits from our investments, wish to see a matching social profit — skills and enterprise empowerment, affordable mass housing, and infrastructure — accompany the use of our investment funds.
Our vision
To create an innovative value chain of construction skills empowerment and real estate and infrastructure value creation, which gives an impressive return on investment to the investors behind the projects.
The two entities
Which company is which
| UK ULDA | ULDA | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | ULDA & PARTNERS COOPERATIVE LTD | Universal Learn Direct Academia Ltd |
| Registered in | United Kingdom — Companies House | Nigeria — Corporate Affairs Commission |
| Number | 11728901 | — |
| Type | Private company limited by guarantee without share capital | Limited liability company |
| Role | Funding and investment cooperative. Raises member capital in the UK and approves each project’s business case in London. | Construction skills training and upskilling academy. Delivers the projects in Nigeria. |
| You join | This one. Members contract with the UK cooperative. | Not a membership body. |
UK ULDA details verified against the Companies House public register. Check the register yourself.
What we actually do
Through ULDA in Nigeria we are, at root, a building and construction skills developer. We give competent trainees and alumni the confidence to work for themselves by putting them on real infrastructure and mass-housing projects — not simulations.
UK ULDA is the investment side of that: a Nigeria-focused commercial mass-housing and infrastructure cooperative, established specifically as the funding and investment partner to ULDA. The collaboration is deliberately profit-driven. It connects investor-friendly capital with world-class building and construction skills, to deliver quality real estate at competitive rates for clients — with a reasonable margin for everyone involved.
What is a cooperative?
A cooperative is a commercial enterprise owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits. In the tradition of the cooperative founders, members hold to the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.
Those principles are not decoration. They are written into Article 3 of our constitution, and that article is entrenched — altering it requires the approval of 100% of members.
What members are buying into
We are a real estate and physical infrastructure investment vehicle with two obligations.
- A financial obligation. The vehicle must yield a reasonably competitive annual return on members’ investments or monthly contributions.
- A social obligation. Every project executed in Nigeria with funds raised by UK ULDA must carry a socio-economic return alongside the financial one — skills empowerment, skills upgrades, and direct and indirect employment — and that has to be spelled out in the business case approved in London before funds are disbursed.
Your capital is at risk. A stated business case is not a guarantee of return. See the risk statement.
Why it is a win either way
The model is designed so that the same money does two jobs. At the micro level: a citizen’s life is changed by skills, a job placement and the means to run their own enterprise; and an investor’s capital, or a professional’s expertise, is rewarded out of the real estate value created for third parties by the triangle of expertise, funding and manpower.
At the macro level: a model that turns the unskilled into the skilled, and rewards investors with profit and growing equity in property, produces something more durable than either — better housing, better infrastructure, and a measurable improvement in quality of life.
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Leadership
Our visioner, Mr Gbola Oba, and the six directors of the cooperative.
Put your capital to work where it builds something
Membership starts at £100 a month. Your contribution is pooled with other members, invested in housing projects approved in London and built in Nigeria, and measured on both financial and social return.