Our Community
Our Vision
Vision
Discover the kind of community we're building together
Our members live mindfully, both alongside one another and in harmony with the environment.
Our vision and guiding principles grow out of our shared needs and the values we hold in common.
- Community
- Sustainability
- Health & Wellbeing
- Education & Innovation
- Affordable & Accessible
- Self Expression
Community
We build our community together. We offer care and time to one another, to our community and to our neighbours. We take an active part in the communities we belong to now and in the future. We share responsibility for each other and for our environment, and we are committed to turning our vision into reality.
We make time to cook and share meals, tackle house projects, tend a garden full of fresh fruit and vegetables, and look after animals and children together. Every member understands their part in creating and maintaining a happy, healthy and productive home.
Wherever we can, we share our time and resources with the wider community we belong to — whether that means sharing produce, volunteering for political, social and environmental causes, or taking an active part in the democratic process locally and nationally.
Sustainability
We make use of local resources and workshops and do construction and DIY work ourselves or with local businesses whenever possible. We source communal products that we can’t grow ourselves come from ethical local farms and producers. We plan to have chickens to produce our own eggs and we are working together to grow our own fruit and vegetables with the aim of being self-sufficient wherever possible. We work to reduce our waste and plastic use, reuse, and recycle. We compost and reuse all food scraps.
As a community we source renewable energy and work to improve the energy efficiency of the house with insulation. Finally we’ll look towards generating our own energy with solar electric and solar hot water systems.
Health & Wellbeing
We make sure to balance our work with community living, with space to work from home comfortably and lots of shared indoor and outdoor spaces.
We will make sure our community has open and honest communication and an understanding of personal and shared responsibilities. We will share skills and experiences, host yoga classes, and conduct regular activities and meetings to stay engaged and connected as a community.
Education & Innovation
We each bring different skills and expertise, and we use them to support one another and to share and teach each other in self development — especially skills that make us more self-sufficient and productive.
We encourage personal development, both academic and practical. Members are encouraged to think outside the box and come up with new, innovative ideas for completing projects and working together. We look to share the benefits of these skills with the wider community we live in.
Affordable & Accessible
We want to help change the story around home ownership and hand more power back to creative, ethical, socially conscious people who are more committed to making a difference than making a profit. We want to give our members the chance to gain equity in a property so they can break free of the rental cycle and invest in their future together.
Everyone has an equal say in house decisions and planning. We have adopted a fully mutual governance model, so only the people living in the house are members, and everyone living in the house is a member. We also have a flat, transparent structure, with one member = one vote decision making at general meetings.
Self Expression
We encourage creativity in all its forms and create spaces for art creation, music, writing and growing. Expressions that encourage colour and light and joyous realisation of personal visions.
We want to create room to be the wonderful weird unique creatures we are and allow space to be loud or quiet, spend time with many friends or spend time alone. We respect each other’s needs and boundaries and work hard to ensure everyone in the cooperative feels respected and heard.
