HOPE COHOUSING

Hope Cohousing is a Community Interest Company (CIC). This is a special type of social enterprise: a limited company which exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders [see gov.uk]. Its assets can only be used for its social objectives. It is overseen by the UK Government Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies... Hope Cohousing was formally established early in 2019. We want to live independently in old age and value our privacy but recognise that friendship and support from neighbours and friends - and involvement in the local community - are crucial for our wellbeing. There have been some changes in our membership since then but the same vision has remained as has the determination to make it a reality... Hope Cohousing - a community interest company - is working with the Communities Housing Trust to establish a small cohousing project for older people in St Margaret's Hope, Orkney as a lasting community benefit. There will be six new, eco-..