There are sometimes properties available for rent or sale at Springhill Cohousing

Visit the Springhill Cohousing properties page for the most up to date information and contact details.

Here is a link to the 2009 UK Cohousing Network flyer.

You can order many, postage free and/or download it. (Right click to download)

Site for sale in Anglesey, North Wales, which has four two bedroom, two bathroom cottages and permission for a fifth.
The first two cottages are complete but cottages three four and five have not started work.

If you are interested, email Matt Riddiford at matt...@gmail.com (to get the full email address click on the blue dots to the left of the @)

A new group based near Crediton in Devon has registered with UK Cohousing!

Go to Crediton's group page for more information and dates of upcoming meetings.

A new developing group has registered with UK Cohousing!

Go to our SOLCA (South Leicester CoHousing Association) page for more information and means of contact.

A new developing group, Norwich Cohousing has registered with UK Cohousing! They are meeting once a month and are interested in people getting in contact. Visit their website for more info.

Dates 2009: 20-22 February, 24-26 April, 26-28 June, 11-13 September, 13-15 November

The Threshold Centre is one of the handful of cohousing projects established so far in the UK. While many exploratory cohousing groups have met for several years without getting started, The Threshold core group formed in February 2004, and bought Cole Street Farm in November 2004. In this weekend, you can experience life in a fledgling cohousing community, and learn how to create a cohousing project.

Somerset and Devon Cohousing have just joined the cohousing network: take a look at their group page for more details, and a contact e-mail if you would like to get involved.

This week, Help the Aged have launched their 1 is the saddest number campaign, following research showing a third of older people in the UK live alone - and that one million older people will face this Christmas alone. At the same time, Baroness Julia Neuberger, has called for a 'grey revolution' - including cohousing - to tackle this awful problem. Article below...

In the Independent, Wednesday 29 October 2008

Last Sunday, I went to 'The Big Sing' event organised by the Jewish Community Centre for London. Along with the Jewish Care choir and others, there were the Zimmers, a rock group of people in their eighties and nineties who gave us a rousing rendition that included dancing together, lunging at the audience to a rhythm-filled 'It's My Life', and in general holding us spellbound. The whole event was totally life-enhancing.

The Cohousing Network welcomes the Postlip Community: click here for their network homepage.

In 1968, two families who had been running a bulk-buying cooperative started to think about other ways of sharing. We wanted space, facilities and support to pursue the bees in our individual bonnets. We believed in being together but felt that everyone needs private space, so we dreamt of creating separate family homes within a cooperative setting. We'd accidentally invented cohousing!

So we searched for other families with compatible dreams, and for a large country house where we could grow food and flowers, paint and sculpt, write novels, work on inventions, give our children opportunities and freedom, make wine and drink it, have parties and fun together, and create somewhere special to live. We spent 1969 in growing the group, refining our ideas and eventually discovering Postlip Hall, a mainly-Jacobean Manor House with fifteen acres.

Almost 40 years later, Postlip is eight family 'units', each a separate home. We work the organic two-acre kitchen garden and grounds communally (with the help of WWOOFers) and use the Great Hall for shared meals, public events, parties and whatever. People move between privacy and communality. We eat together regularly but not constantly, meet often enough to share ideas and make decisions about practicalities, and are casually into one another's homes much of the time.

We're a Housing Association, keep minutes and accounts, and manage to stay solvent. People hold their units on long leases, so you can only join if somebody leaves and makes a unit free to be sold at an agreed valuation.

There's more about us at our website.