Monica King and Lin Scrannage describe the long journey that has finally led to the successful creation of Bridport Cohousing Community in Dorset. Despite all the legal and financial obstacles that they faced they never gave up. Their living units are now all occupied and their community house is very close to completion. It's an inspiring tale.

Bridport Cohousing at Diggers & Dreamers
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/bridport-cohousing

Bridport Cohousing
https://bridportcohousing.org.uk

School of Natural Building
https://schoolofnaturalbuilding.co.uk

Hooke Park
https://hookepark.aaschool.ac.uk

Kirsten chats with Mary Davies and James Newman who are both long term members of Pilsdon Community. They're joined by Helen Lynch who has just become the new Warden. They talk about the original inspiration for the community and its founding members back in 1958. Nearly seven decades later the place is still going strong as a radically inclusive community which offers struggling people an opportunity to find a way through their problems.

Pilsdon Community at Diggers & Dreamers:
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/pilsdon-community

Pilsdon Community:
https://www.pilsdon.org.uk/

Nicholas Ferrar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ferrar

Little Gidding Community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Gidding_community

Pilsdon Morning
Gaynor Smith 1982, ISBN 13: 9780863030598

Spaceheads:
https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

Matt describes how he was born into a Bruderhof Community in England which then moved to... South America! Back in the UK as a young adult in the 1970s he chanced upon Lower Shaw - an old farmhouse with a bit of land that was fast being surrounded by the expansion of Swindon. His story then takes us through the various stages that Lower Shaw Farm has gone through in the intervening decades.

Lower Shaw Farm
https://www.lowershawfarm.co.uk/about-the-farm

Bruderhof Communities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruderhof_Communities

Spaceheads:
https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts