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- Share Instead Housing Co-operative Limited
- Registration: https://mutuals.fsa.gov.uk/SocietyDetails.aspx?Number=31563&Suffix=R
- Email: shareinstead at gmail dot com.
- We are a small, fully mutual housing co-op, which from 2012-2022 housed 5 members in our home in Sharrow (a total of 10 people over 10 years). We have now joined forces with Five Rivers Cohousing and have bought 3 flats in their new development in S6, completed in early 2024. This was partly funded through the purchase of loanstock by members of our communities, in Sheffield and further afield.
- At Five Rivers we live in flats with a high environmental rating, and enjoy the common facilities, such as gardens, bike shed, solar panels and guest bedrooms, as well as the 'common house' hall and kitchen. The presence of our co-op enables the cohousing project to offer affordable rented homes, which, as far as we know, was a first for the UK when we moved in!
- We aim to live up to our name and share resources instead of pursuing ruthless individualism. This includes buying and cooking food together and supporting the wider members of our cohousing to do so too.
- Share Instead is an Associate member of the Radical Routes umbrella co-op.
- After buying our Sharrow house in 2015 we improved the energy rating from SAP band E to band C - through a new gas boiler with sophisticated controls, solar hot water, solar electricity, renovated double-glazed sash windows and improved insulation and draught-proofing. We participated in Green Homes Sheffield 'open homes' events whenever possible.