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sustainable living for over 50s – building a community for our futures

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  • Virtual working

    Virtual working

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    Despite some worries about having to get to grips with new (to all of us) technology, I’m pleased to say MUCH are having regular practice sessions, ironing out our various connection glitches, learning to signal that we want to speak, mute ourselves when we’re not speaking and hoping that our next proper General Meeting will… Continue reading »

  • End of the year

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    As we look back on 2019 and look forward to 2020, it’s good to remind ourselves of what MUCH have achieved in the last 12 months. We signed a partnership agreement with Great Places, our Housing Association development partners. Paddock Johnson Partnership have been selected as our architects and we had an initial design workshop with them… Continue reading »

  • A nod to CoHousing from Kevin McCloud

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    I follow a website called House Planning Help, a source of many articles about self build, quite often low energy, sustainable self builds. In this article, Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs has some advice on new ways of building to address the climate emergency. He even refers to the impact of sharing resources, which of course… Continue reading »

  • MUCH members get involved in community arts!

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    One of the things members of MUCH like to do is sing. Come and see some of the members of MUCH performing with Open Voice choir as part of Chorlton Arts Festival 2019. Our gig is on Saturday 21st September at 7:30 pm, in St Clement’s Church, Edge Ln, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9AE. We’ll be sharing the… Continue reading »

  • NEWS – Funding and Partners

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    We’re very excited to announce that we have finally received a signed contract from Homes England for the Community Housing Fund. This will support the development of the early stages of our project, and help us identify a site, work up our business plan, obtain legal, environmental and sustainability advice and appoint an architect. We… Continue reading »

  • Living the dream …………………….…. in Barnet

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    Six of us went to visit the OWCH site, New Ground, in Barnet on the 1st of May. We were fortunate to be accompanied by 2 partners from Paddock Johnson (our newly selected architects). We arrived and were met by four members of OWCH and Maria Brenton who organizes a lot of their publicity and… Continue reading »

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