CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR 2024/5 Our first festive season in our new homes has been a lovely landmark. Our fantastic housing co-op, Share Instead cooked us all a wonderful 3 course Yule feast before we started our Christmas celebrations with our own families and/or neighbours. New Year was equally memorable with another feast followed by a quiz of the year and games, organised splendidly by 2 of our young members. January snow has seen us hunkering down and testing the efficacy of our air source heat pumps (great so far!). Some serious igloo building provided by our brilliant children……

AUGUST 2024. Nearly all our households have now moved in. We’re busy building our community and working hard, with much digging and preparing the soil for planting. A Lego workshop with our children helped us plan the area around our homes so that we include important child friendly features in our landscape planning. Still very much a work in progress, but it feels great to be settling in.
We’re enjoying chatting with some of the dog walkers and neighbours using Spider Park and being able to join in with local community events. Two of our members even managed to win prizes at the marvellous Wisewood Horticultural Society Annual Show!
We helped the Council Parks & Countryside Department to plant some wild flowers on the bit of Spider Park outside our fence that got churned up during the very wet months of our build and it’s been good to see them start to come through.

As at August 2024, our final property remaining for sale is now under offer so we hope to be able to announce soon that our community is complete. We have a waiting pool of people who want to be contacted if a unit becomes available, so do still contact us if you would like to know more about this option.
JUNE 2024
At the end of this month we had a fabulous supporters open day to thank some of those who have kindly and generously supported us through the journey of the build and creating our community.

We had a fantastic day with many friends from far and wide come to celebrate with us over a communally cooked meal in our common house, delicious cakes and strawberries!