Hello! We are Community Living for Aging Nerds (CLAN). We are a new cohousing group in the Yorkshire area, hoping to create a senior cohousing project within the next 4-10 years. The current committee for the project have a shared love of nerdy and geeky things, such as board games, video games, tabletop and live-action roleplay games, and enjoy science-fiction and fantasy books and films. We all have other interests too, but that’s the core love that gathers us together.

We hope to find a place where we can have private dwellings with a shared space to enable us to play games and watch nerdy things together into our twilight years.

Our Vision and Values:

Community - a co-housing project brought together through our shared love of geek culture.

Living for - between 20 to 30 independent dwellings somewhere urban but with shared green space and a shared communal building.

Aging - built to support independent living for as long as practical. No minimum age for members but focuses on the later stages of life.

Nerds - or geeks if you prefer. You don’t have to be a geek to live here but you do need to want to live with them.

Co-operative - we will be run by residents for the residents. We will need to do our part to make this work.

Inclusive - we are an inclusive space that values and celebrates difference, and is actively anti-discriminatory.

Affordable - including places to live for those in need, and built to keep running costs low.

Supportive - we will support each other to live our best lives - balancing our private and shared lives while being good neighbours.

Understanding - we know that we are all coming to our shared lives from different vantage points and experiences. We will listen, be honest, open, and accepting of the perspectives of others.