Fantastic news - success in our pre-feasibility application

A wonderful letter came through the door today. Confirmation that we had been awarded a £10,000 grant to undertake a pre-feasibility study.

What’s a pre-feasibility study? Good question and one we struggled with and obviously gave a good answer to in our grant application. The simplest way to answer is to tell you what we will do with the grant.

The aim is to produce a community vision and realisable action plan for the development of the site. And to do this we will:

1. Create a development timeline with key issues and next steps – covering site, finance, leadership and community engagement.
2. Clarify the roles, structure, leadership and make-up of the community vision group.
3. Identify development needs of current members in terms of skills and experience. 

4. Identify the needs, requirements, resources and capacity of potential key partners.

5. Identify research potential and possibilities for wider learning.

6. Identify key contacts and essential liaisons.

7. Recommend how the benefits of cohousing can be most effectively applied to meet the local context and community. 

This pre-feasibility study gives us a real chance to move things along quickly. We are able to pay for help so that by the end of the three months we are in a much better position, with real clarity about what we are aiming for and how we can get there.