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SixMix: Community at the Heart
Our vision is not just about providing housing, but about building community. This is reflected in SixMix, our unique community model, which will provide activities, services and support around six core strands of daily living: food, housing, learning, finance, wellbeing and work.
Food
Explore and discover new attitudes to nourishment from seed to plate. On-site produce may include: fruit, nuts, herbs and vegetables, as well as raising chickens for egg production and beekeeping for pollination and honey. Hands-on practice is achieved by training, apprenticeships and experience. The potential also exists for supplying produce locally, such as vegetables, salads and soft fruit.
Benefits:
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Team work
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Sharing knowledge about how to grow food
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Satisfaction of consuming own produce
Home Space
A variety of self-contained spaces on offer at fair rent levels. All other strands of SixMix revolve around this combination of privacy whilst fostering a sense of community. These may be ready-built or self-build spaces in compact 1, 2 and 3 bedroom options. Whilst the ethos promotes an ecological as well as economical lifestyle, furnishing is at the discretion of tenants to suit their tastes.
Benefits:
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Fosters community integration
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Contribute to new economies
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Affordable rents
Learning
Make a conscious effort at lifelong learning, a style of education via formal and informal learning. This is enabled through various resident projects, together with community space and a café for community residents and non-residents. Additionally, The Learning Club accommodates families who choose to learn together away from school.
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Interaction with others
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Rounded learning for all
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New friends
Small Funds
A mutual aid fund scheme providing short-term personal loans. It is non-profit and doesn’t charge interest on loans. However, small management fees cover the lending licence, compliance with data protection law and admin costs. The aim is to be part of a transition to a more localised economy. See policies for eligibility.
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Short-term personal loans at hand
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Small amounts reflect SixMix values
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No interest loans
Wellbeing
SixMix promotes a healthy and positive attitudes for tenants. As a major source of wellbeing, everyone has the right to fresh, healthy economical food. The community space kitchen and café facilitates a number of activities around food. Events at the space also promote wellbeing, including social gatherings and entertainment, open to both tenants and locals.
Benefits:
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Checkpoint for staying well
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Healthy nourishment
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Community gatherings
Work Space
This will offer flexible work spaces at fair rents. The community space can also be adapted, allowing tenants, their businesses and locals to work together. Work that is co-operative and built on democratic principles is most suited. Work and financial independence are encouraged through workshops, apprenticeships and training in a variety of skills.
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Work without having to travel
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Co-working
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Involve locals
Consultancy
As a non-profit organisation, part of our mission is to spread the word to help others adopt SixMix as a replicable model. We provide consultancy to other property developers of small footprint urban builds, nationally and beyond, with our globally viable option.
Impact
SixMix is the result of our tried and tested pilot projects and our combined experience over many years. Our vision is to create new attitudes and preferences for small footprint living that makes a difference to people and makes an impact on our environment.
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