Hi there and welcome to the HOWCH website.
HOWCH stands for Hastings Older Womens Cohousing and we are a local group set up with the aim to offer alternative housing in an area where there is a shortage of affordable housing. We would like to introduce the alternative form of cohousing to the local market in order to alleviate some of this pressure.
HOWCH would like to set up a blueprint for how this scheme can work for many different groups in our society, however, the local HOWCH group is focusing on a community of cohousing for women in their older ages, a cause close to our hearts.
Loneliness and isolation has increased in recent years as a result of longer lifespans, cuts to social care services and families becoming more spread geographically. Age UK has proclaimed that loneliness and isolation is a “major health concern, because if loneliness is not addressed it can become chronic, seriously affecting people’s health and wellbeing”.
According to the same charity loneliness is set to soar among the over 50’s with half of all people aged 75 and over living alone. 70% of these are women. This is why we would like to provide cohousing for women over the age of 50 in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea.
Hi there and welcome to the HOWCH website.
HOWCH stands for Hastings Older Womens Cohousing and we are a local group set up with the aim to offer alternative housing in an area where there is a shortage of affordable housing. We would like to introduce the alternative form of cohousing to the local market in order to alleviate some of this pressure.
HOWCH would like to set up a blueprint for how this scheme can work for many different groups in our society, however, the local HOWCH group is focusing on a community of cohousing for women in their older ages, a cause close to our hearts.
Loneliness and isolation has increased in recent years as a result of longer lifespans, cuts to social care services and families becoming more spread geographically. Age UK has proclaimed that loneliness and isolation is a “major health concern, because if loneliness is not addressed it can become chronic, seriously affecting people’s health and wellbeing”.
According to the same charity loneliness is set to soar among the over 50’s with half of all people aged 75 and over living alone. 70% of these are women. This is why we would like to provide cohousing for women over the age of 50 in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea.