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Vivarium

Vivarium offers:

 

  • a positive lifestyle option for older people in affordable housing
     
  • affordable self-managed projects
     
  • autonomy and privacy of individual households
     
  • mutual support and a sense of community

 

through co-housing

The Vivarium Trust

The Vivarium Trust has been set up to promote co-housing, to provide information and advice on co-housing projects and the social benefits achieved, to address particularly the needs of older people and, with this aim in mind, to establish and support pilot projects to demonstrate and test the practicalities.

 

Vivarium is for people who choose to live in a
positive, co-operative and responsible manner with
family, friends, neighbours and the environment.
 

Latest News

Appointment of Development Officer
23/06/2010 | Hugh Hoffman

Grace MacDonald has now taken up her post as The Vivarium Trust's first Development Officer. Grace previously worked for Fife Council where she was involved in a number of environmental, social and e [ ... ]


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Vivarium project receives grant support
30/12/2009 | Administrator

THE Vivarium Trust, a Fife-based registered charity which promotes co-housing for older people, has been awarded funding from the Tudor Trust.   The grant will allow Vivarium to appoin [ ... ]


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    Age Concern Scotland Fife Council Lottery funded The Tudor Trust Queen Margaret University Glasgow Caledonian University

    Company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 330445. Scottish Charity SC 038745
    6 Church Lane, Ladybank, Fife, KY15 7LY