Community Led Action and Savings Support
Lancashire, UK
High rise social housing tenants in Hulme, Manchester, have been adapating an innovative approach to ageing at height called a Naturally Occuring Retirement Community (or NORC) since 2021. This model originated in New York and tenants in Manchester have organised to adapt this for high rise social hosing in Manchester working with local charities, their local GP, their housing provider, and with support from university partners. Impacts to date include: Two block-wide tenant-led surveys with findings becoming action plans for the blocks leading to: lift replacements, new community space renovations, age-banding, aids and adaptations, and a tenant-led programme of social and financial inclusion activities including trips to the seaside, international BBQs, and tenant management of a crisis fund and a local savings club. You will be working directly with tower block communities to identify their needs and priorities and enable them to organise around these with a focus on...
