Kate Moran

I’m excited to be part of the team growing this innovative cohousing project, which will enhance the lives of the older women living there. I have become aware of how little provision is made for single women as they age and wish to co-create a vibrant alternative-living situation. I have worked in both Youth & Community and Care areas, and have run a business. Now it’s time to learn new skills as we progress through the planning stages in order to ensure we retain the central cohousing ethos, which puts shared facilities and cooperation at the heart of the community. 

To build and live in a sustainable method is essential in these overheated times, and HOWCH can provide a template for other cohousing communities – kinder to us and the planet. 

 We’ll be recording our journey via blog and video…

Elise Liversedge

I live in Bexhill and i’m also a member of Bexhill Community Land Trust, which is soon to deliver a six flat low rent accommodation in Sidley. I practice as an architectural designer, and fine artist.

I’m passionate about developing holistic community projects and asipre to creating a net zero environment.

I joined the board of HOWCH in autumn 2022 and took the role of trust secretary.

Karen Manson – Treasurer

Our current model of isolated, individual homes may suit young growing families but I believe that there needs to be more co-operative, sustainable and constructive ways of living for older single women. This innovative co-housing project envisages a mutually supportive community, a building with individual spaces and shared facilities, and a fabric to reduce energy costs and improve our use of scarce resources.

Through my background in healthcare, I have seen the negative impact of solitary housing on older women’s mental and physical health, their finances and their premature loss of independent living. I hope this project can exemplify an alternative housing model which enables single women to enjoy a happy, healthy and creative life.

Joan Bones

I am a 75 year old widow who likes to keep fit and enjoys a varied social life. I still take a weekly ballet class and try to do yoga twice a week, I also play lawn bowls.

I am not sure I have any specific qualifications for my place on the board other than the belief that women like me are all too frequently ignored and forgotten about. I have a history of stepping up to the plate when a job needs doing having been a captain of darts teams and at bowls, and serving as secretary for various different organisations down the years.

What HOWCH is trying to achieve is something I believe in very strongly and will work to help make it happen.