Almshouses need to be recognised as social housing to be able to reach their full potential
Comment in Inside Housing by Nick Phillips | | link to pdf | magazine article | Inside Housing | Nov 2024 |
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‘Being an accountant in the charity sector is more rewarding’
– interview with Samantha Maskell, Head of Finance, Policy and Governance at the Richmond Charities for Civil Society | | link to pdf | magazine article | Charity Finance
Civil Society | Oct 2024 |
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Beautiful Almshouses – Cloaked in History
– article on Norfolk almshouses by Rowan Mantell Photos: Sonya Duncan | | link to pdf
link to web item | magazine article | Norfolk Magazine
(part of Great
British Life series) | Sept 2024 |
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Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living
– Documentary review by Cath Clark for The Guardian | | link
pdf
vimeo video link | documentary review | The Guardian | 15 July 2024 |
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Britain’s 1,000-year-old retirement homes (that boost your life expectancy)
– Arabella Youens for The Telegraph | | link
pdf | news article | The Telegraph | 13 July 2024 |
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Appleby Blue Almshouses opening
The affordable housing for over-65s that could lengthen your life
– Hugh Graham, Senior Property Writer for The Times
Is this Bermondsey almshouse the ideal way of living for the over 65s?
– Izabel Ramirez for Southwark News | | click for pdf
Click for TAA news item
click link
pdf link | news article
news article | The Times Property News
The Times
Southwark News | 26 & 31 May 2024
25 May 2024 |
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How the Church of England can help solve the housing crisis
– James Vitali for The Times | | pdf click here
web link here | news article (comment) | The Times | 24 April 2024 |
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Behind the doors of an almshouse in Brixton
BBC news item on Jim Grover photography exhibition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Trinity Home – ‘Behind the Blue Doors’
| | pdf – click here
web link
here | online news article | BBC.co.uk news in pictures | 19 April 2024 |
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‘A model of social responsibility’ – almshouses in the modern age
– Gillian Darley, Architect for Apollo magazine | | click
here | online magazine article | Apollo – the international art magazine | 2 Feb 2024 |
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Live better, live longer: the retirement home that’s more like an alpine spa
– Oliver Wainwright for The Guardian | | click
here | news article | The Guardian | Nov 2023 |
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The John Morden Centre – Named winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
– multiple articles published by various news outlets inc. FT, Guardian, RIBA, Big Issue, collated into one article | | click
here | various | various | Oct
2023 |
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Appleby Blue almshouse and its residents sit firmly in the community – – “Witherford Watson Mann’s Southwark almshouse gives ordinary older people the kind of housing that is normally the preserve of the wealthy”
– Eleanor Young for RIBA Journal | | pdf click here
web link here | web article | RIBA Journal | Oct
2023 |
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Appleby Blue Almshouse: a blueprint for 21st-century housing
– BY Giovanna Dunmall for Wallpaper*
Witherford Watson Mann reinvents the almshouse for modern city life – Architecture Today | | pdf link
web link
pdf link
web link | web article
web article | Wallpaper*
Architecture Today | Oct
2023 |
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Why I’m happy being a Brother
– Laurie Graham, novelist, scriptwriter and Charterhouse resident – for The Spectator magazine | | pdf link
web link | magazine and web article | The Spectator | Sept 2023 |
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Inside the new breed of almshouse
– Emily Rhodes for The FT | | pdf link
web link | news article | Financial Times | Sept
2023 |
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Charles Fifield: Become a SLIMBY – Something Logical In My Back Yard
– Charles Fifield for Conservative Home | | click here | web article | Conservative Home | Aug 2023 |
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The importance of Almshouses
– Jan Goffey for The Moorlander | | click here | web article | The Moorlander | Aug 2023 |
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‘View from here’ – They may sound like a quaint architectural anachronism but almshouses could be as relevant today as they ever were
– Susy Smith for Country Living | | click here | magazine column | Country Living | June 2023 |
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Letter from London: Almshouses, Amis and Assange
– Peter Bach for COUNTERPUNCH | | pdf
web link | website
blog | COUNTERPUNCH | May 2023 |
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‘Affordable and stress free’: how almshouses are the unsung heroes of UK social housing
– Amelia Hill for the Guardian newspaper, Social Housing
Almshouse residents may live up to two and a half years longer, study finds
– Amelia Hill for the Guardian newspaper, Social Housing | |
click here
click here | news article | Guardian | 22 May 2023 |
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What are almshouses?
– Caroline Roberts for ‘Who do you think you are?’ magazine | | online – click here
pdf – click here | magazine article | Who do you think you are | Mar 2023 |
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Why Derby’s almshouses are still important today
– Louise Jones | | click here | magazine feature | Great
British Life | Mar
2023 |
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Ewelme, Oxfordshire: The medieval almshouses set up by Chaucer’s grand-daughter and still running today
– Toby Keel | | click here | magazine
feature | Country Life | Feb
2023 |
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Local History: ‘BIGG’ ambitions for almshouses
– Gerry Harmon on behalf of The Almshouse Association | | click here | magazine feature | Round and About
Wokingham | Feb
2023 |
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Heritage: Finding Friendship
– Gary Lawrence for Wiltshire Life | | click here | magazine feature | Wiltshire Life | Dec
2022 |
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Heritage: Providing a safe haven over the centuries
– Gary Lawrence for Wiltshire Life | | click link | magazine feature | Wiltshire Life | Nov
2022 |
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Heritage: Centuries of supporting independence
– Gary Lawrence for Wiltshire Life | | click link | magazine
feature | Wiltshire Life | Oct
2022 |
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Supporting Farming Communities
– Two leading charities are seeking landowners interested in
the potential of an affordable housing project for farming communities | | click link | magazine
feature | Country Land
and Business Assoc. | June
2022 |
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Secrets of Essex almshouses
– Denise Marshall for Essex Life | | online story link
Magazine link | magazine
feature | Great British
Life | 29 Jun 2022 |
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Almshouses: What they are, how they were created and why
they’re still relevant in the 21st century
– Clive Aslet for Country Life | | online copy
magazine copy | magazine feature | Country Life | 13 Mar
2022 |
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Understanding almshouses
– featured in LCR magazine | | click link | news item | NALC | 2021 |
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Expanding the provision of almshouses to improve
our future communities
– Nick Phillips CEO, The Almshouse Association | | click link | blog |
NALC | Nov
2021 |
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Almshouses: The historic model, fit for the future
– Nick Phillips CEO, The Almshouse Association | | click link | blog | National Housing
Federation
| Nov
2021 |
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Open alms: the almshouse charities building new homes
Insight by Caroline Thorpe for Inside Housing | | click link | article | Inside Housing
magazine | 13 Oct 2021 |
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Don’t forget almshouses
– Comment by Lord Best in Inside Housing | | click link | Comment | Inside Housing
Magazine | 13 Oct 2021 |
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Remember a Charity – Pass it on
– The Almshouse Association with Dan Cruickshank | | click link | article | Daily Telegraph | 10 Oct
2021 |
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HLIN Viewpoint 100 Almshouses for the 21st Century
– transformation in progress
– Written for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network | | click link | Viewpoint | Housing LIN | Apr
2021 |
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Answering the 21st century call to alms
– Laura Silverman for The Daily Telegraph | | click link | article | The Daily
Telegraph | 29 Feb
2021 |
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Britain is building almshouses at fastest rate since the Victorian era
– Milly Vincent for Mail online
| | click link | news item | Mail online
| Jan
2020 |
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Return of almshouses for the vulnerable could help
solve Britain’s housing crisis
– Patrick Sawyer for The Telegraph
| | click link | news item | The Telegraph | Jan
2020 |
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Almshouses being built at fastest rate in decades
– Becky Johnson for Sky News | | click link | news item | Sky News | 3 Jan
2020 |
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The solution to ageing Britain’s housing crisis? Build almshouses
– Harriett Sherwood for The Guardian | | click link | news item | The Guardian | 27 Oct
2019 |
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Almshouse boom helps poor pensioners
– Tom Ball for The Times | | click link | news item | The Times | 14 Oct
2019 |
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Ageing well: a collection of innovative thinking
| | click link | Collection | The Whiteley
Foundation
for Ageing Well | 2017 |
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Almshouses in Kent – ancient and modern
– Sarah Sturt for Great British Life | | click link | article | Great British Life | Sept 2014 |
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Visiting a 900-year-old almshouse
– Insight by Simon Brandon for Inside Housing | | click link | article | Inside Housing | 18 July
2014 |
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Almshouses – a model for the future?
– Anne Diamond’s BBC Blog | | click link | Blog | BBC ID
webpage | 1 Dec
2010 |
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Why almshouses have a place in 21st century Sussex
– Geraldine Constantine | | clink link | article | Great British
Life | 19 April
2010 |
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