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Pre-conference

• 8.45 – 9.15: Workshop registration
• 9.15 – 10.45: Pre-conference workshop
  • Marketing your own cohousing scheme – finding and keeping members, led by Katie McCamant, US architect and developer and co- author of ‘Cohousing’. (This workshop is free to participants of the main conference)

Main Conference

• 9.00 – 5.30: Market place stalls

• 10.30- 11.00: Registration, coffee

• 11.00: Start of main conference
  • Welcome & introduction
  • Recent developments in cohousing in UK: Sarah Berger, Project Manager, UK Cohousing Network
  • Lessons from the USA: Chuck Durrett , Architect & co-author of ‘Cohousing’
  • Questions & discussion

• 12.30: Voices from the cohousing field
  • We made it – Springhill, Stroud; Threshold Centre, Dorset; Community Project, Sussex.
  • We’re on the way – Lifetime Community, Bradford; Older Womens Cohousing (OWCH), London; Berkshire Cohousing

• 1.00: Lunch & market place

• 2.15: Getting it Built – perspectives as a developer and architect
  • Katie McCamant, Architect and co-author of ‘Cohousing’
  • Questions & discussion

• 3.00: Workshops Including –
  • marketing your project – Katie McCamant
  • overcoming barriers & site acquisition – Chuck Durrett
  • how to do it – in 4 steps – David Michael, Springhill
  • partners: working with housing associations and/or private developers – Alan Heeks
  • finding and Joining Cohousing – Elizabeth Mills, Lancaster Cohousing
  • finance/legal structures
  • group structure
  • planning permission strategies

• 4.00: Tea

• 4.15: Panel of speakers Q & A

• 4.45: Forge Bank Community – Secrets of Success: Mark Westcombe, Lancaster Cohousing

• 5.00 End – 5.30: Market place