Author Archives: CoHoWM

A quiet month in the lead up to holiday festivities. We attended a forum held by the Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH) about new Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) that the Governmental body, the Regulator for Social Housing (RSH) will be bringing in in April 2023. Large providers of social housing (> 1000 homes) need toContinue reading “December 2022”

One of us went up to Sheffield (by train) to attend a set of presentations made by architectural students of Sheffield University. The program is run by Sam Brown, who was our advisor on behalf of West Midlands Urban Community Homes (wMUCH). It was a surprisingly entertaining day. The students are divided into 18 groupsContinue reading “November 2022”

We attended the Midlands Sustainability Conference in Birmingham, to see if we thought it would be good for CoHoWM to have a stall there next year. A good conference, and many folks we chatted with through the day were intrigued by the idea of cohousing. In the end, we concluded that it would be betterContinue reading “October 2022”

Hi folks, An interesting month. Tangentially, one of us attended a workshop on using Open Data for Green purposes. Fun. We also attended a briefing on the implications of GDPR (privacy law) for housing associations. Had another chat with someone interested in cohousing – and coincidentally bumped into a few former members at the sameContinue reading “September 2022”

August was a quite month. We had a chat with someone who was interested in the idea of cohousing, had a couple of business meetings, and did a little work on updating our prospectus!

June We attended a seminar put on by the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (HACT), about an upgrade to a tool that allows HAs to calculate the social value their organisation brings to the table. This is useful when applying for grants. We attended a BuildIt expo down in Bicester, where we talked with Barbara JonesContinue reading “June and July 2022”

Hi folks, On Thursday, 7 July, we’re holding an event to explain about cohousing in general, and Cohousing West Midlands in particular. Event is by Zoom, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm, and tickets are available from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cohousing-west-midlands-tickets-373523748587. We look forward to seeing you and hearing from you.

Technical work continued on merging the two groups. Emails from the old Cohousing West Midlands (CoHoWM) account have been tidied and are ready to import into the new CoHoWM account. Emails are now being automatically forwarded to the new account. We attended a number of events: A locality event about relationships between Local Authorities andContinue reading “May 2022”

Hi folks, another quiet month (at least on the cohousing front!). We had a catchup with one of our West Midlands Urban Community Homes (wMUCH) mentors. wMUCH folks helped both the Birmingham Community Cohousing, and the old Cohousing West Midlands group, who have joined forces to create the new improved Cohousing West Midlands group. WeContinue reading “April 2022”

March was very quiet. Not much happening externally. Some work going on under the covers to amalgamate the groups’ finances and files. A couple of Zoom meetings.