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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