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News and blog - Tim Padmore, Gearshift Theatre
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Gearshift Theatre Past Projects. True ‘Davids’ and ‘Goliaths’ from Kendal to Hull. 8220;It always seems impossible until it’s done.’. This belt is also rich in its history of people who believed that a better, fairer world was possible. Lancashire is the home of the Rochdale Pioneers who formed an early co-operative in 1844. In 1863 the North of England Co-operative Society, made up of 300 co-operatives in Yorkshire and Lancashire was formed. The trade union movement and labour movement was, and is, stro...
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UK Cohousing Network event: Cohousing Retrofit | Cohousing Forum
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Anyone for cohousing in Bristol, UK? Scaling It Up: Community-led housing in Bristol →. UK Cohousing Network event: Cohousing Retrofit. November 24, 2013. Interested in cohousing retrofit? There’s an event in London on Friday 6th December organised by the UK Cohousing Network. 8220;A day of inspiration for community collaborators, transition groups, local authorities, healthcare trusts, policy makers, researchers, community housing associations, and community enterprise organisations.”. Scaling It Up: Co...
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: June 2014
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Friday, June 13, 2014. Observer Ethical Awards 2014. winners! We were delighted to learn a couple of weeks ago that we'd been shortlisted in the community energy project category of the Observer Ethical Awards 2014, and even more delighted to hear on Wednesday night that we'd won! And we also share the biomass boiler which provides heating and hot water to all 41 of our homes plus Halton Mill. On the Observer website.
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: October 2012
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Living Cohousing for real. Our first residents have now been living in cohousing for nearly six weeks. So I decided to ask them what they liked best about it. Warmth, both physical and human, was the answer. Oh and fabulous views, despite the building work still going on around them. Living in an eco home. Mark says: There’s some lovely unexpected features in the houses, the staircase...
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: November 2012
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Thursday, November 8, 2012. First Week in the Life of the Common House. The common house is now complete. We have all been so excited about using it that this post is a little late! Mainly photos - but I think they will give the full picture. The first actual meal was an impromptu picnic for a hungry boy. But our first proper communal meal happened to coincide with Halloween, so we decided to make the most of it.
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: Stories from Forgebank: Gill on cooking for 40
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Thursday, June 6, 2013. Stories from Forgebank: Gill on cooking for 40. 8221; was my first thought about the prospect of cooking for forty, it is a daunting prospect. But I’ve done it six or seven times now and it’s been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done since moving in last September. So, ahem, moving on … My repertoire now includes veg crumble, cauliflower cheese/seed, red dragon pie (mung bean shephe...
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: June 2013
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Friday, June 28, 2013. Lancaster Cohousing Project In The Final Of Passivhaus Trust National Awards 2013. Terrace A and the Common House patio - photo by Luke. Exciting news this week - we heard from Andrew Yeats of Eco Arc. Our architects, that we've reached the final of this year's Passivhaus Trust National Awards! We're in the last three in our category, which is social housing. Sunday, June 9, 2013. Like the magic...
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: August 2012
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Sunday, August 19, 2012. The first pioneers Forge ahead. The first residents moved in today! Everyone helped Miles and Jo to unload the van. Whilst Fiona organised the celebrations and a Mezuzah ceremony. Amazingly there were 28 people in the room with plenty of space spare. Though the same could not be said of the doorstep. We even have a temporary post box until the common house letterboxes become available.
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: April 2013
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Digging in the Rain, Like we're in a Chaingang. The day was cold, windy, wet and miserable. Only the select few turned out for the work party on 26th April. The task was to dig over the subsoil and mix in the mushroom compost so that we could sow a meadow before the end of April. The sub soil was solid, impacted clay, and as you can see, in places we had to use a pick ax or a mattock. The team...
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News from Lancaster Cohousing: September 2013
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News from Lancaster Cohousing. Find out more about us at www.lancastercohousing.org.uk. Sunday, September 8, 2013. An elephant in the street. Many strange and wonderful things happen in our pedestrian street: last week saw one of the strangest. An elephant gliding along the street and around our common house, carrying our children on his back. When we bought our site. A decade ago, Halton Mill. One of the things they turned their hands to was these 7ft high mechanical elephants, made to carry children al...
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