CLAN - Vision, Values and a question

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read through our draft of our Vision and Values - it's really helpful to have people other than us to look through what we do to make sure what we write makes sense.

So this email is to share these with you, but also to ask you a question (there's a button at the bottom).

To help you decide, here is the current version. It's OK for Vision and Values to be a bit vague because it's the job of the community to work out what they mean in practice. They are guides and explanations to what we want to do, and to what we as a community think is important.

Vision - what we want to do

Community - a co-housing project brought together through our shared love of geek culture.

Living for - between 20 to 30 independent dwellings somewhere urban but with shared green space and a shared communal building.

Aging - built to support independent living for as long as practical. No minimum age for members but focuses on the later stages of life.

Nerds - or geeks if you prefer. You don’t have to be a geek to live here but you do need to want to live with them.

Values - how we do things

Co-operative - we will be run by residents for the residents. We will need to do our part to make this work.

Inclusive - we are an inclusive space that values and celebrates difference, and is actively anti-discriminatory.

Affordability - including places to live for those in need, and built to keep running costs low.

Supportive - we will support each other to live our best lives - balancing our private and shared lives while being good neighbours.

Understanding - we know that we are all coming to our shared lives from different vantage points and experiences. We will listen, be honest, open, and accepting of the perspectives of others.

We know you think CLAN is interesting, that's why you've signed up. But are you someone who wants us to succeed but has no intention of moving in, or are you cautiously interested in joining us one day, depending on a hundred different factors, decisions and timings? It would help us know if there's 70 or 7 people on our list who are open to the idea. Please press the button to give us your answer!*

One thing we have decided but isn't in our Vision and Values is our location; we are going to be somewhere along the M1 or M62 corridors, north of Birmingham, east of the Pennines.

Are you just watching, or might you consider it?

Thank you for reading,

Laura
on behalf of Community Living for Aging Nerds

*we will keep this preference with your email address, but we will only share the overall totals outside of CLAN, not anyone's personal preference.

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CLAN - Vision, Values and a question

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