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Discovering friendship with Churchill Living

Discovering friendship with Churchill Living

Life after 60 can bring new beginnings, including the chance to build lasting friendships as Fran and Faye discovered when they moved to a Churchill Living home Research shows that strong social connections help people live happier, healthier, and even longer lives,...

Handmade poppy displays for Remembrance Sunday

Handmade poppy displays for Remembrance Sunday

​A stunning waterfall of poppies created by the owners of a Churchill retirement development, evokes a powerful message this Remembrance Sunday During the first lockdown back in March homeowners at Beatrice Lodge, a retirement apartment development in Sittingbourne,...

New development for over 55s opening in Kent

New development for over 55s opening in Kent

Orchard Yard, a new retirement estate in Kent, is a small, boutique development for discerning retirees who want to live in an idyllic haven Nestled in the county regarded as the Garden of England, Orchard Yard comprises just nine houses and six apartments. The...

Best masks for older people

Best masks for older people

Jane and Neil MacKichan have made nearly 1000 masks for charity since March. Here they cast their expert eyes over the best models for retirees The compulsory wearing of face masks has helped provide those considered at risk such as the over 60s with a visible level...

Introducing Pegasus Winchester Holts

Introducing Pegasus Winchester Holts

Construction milestones reached at Pegasus’s newest later-living community Work continues to progress at Pegasus Winchester Holts, the latest age-exclusive community from later-living specialist Lifestory. When completed in autumn next year, Pegasus Winchester Holts...

When technology can take you the extra mile

When technology can take you the extra mile

Residents from Signature Senior Lifestyle’s Cliveden Manor, Marlow, have been enjoying weekly virtual shopping trips The chance to enjoy a weekly ‘virtual shopping’ trip throughout September to the Edinburgh Woollen Mill store, based in the Flowerland Garden Centre at...

Auriens to build new scheme in Kensington

Auriens to build new scheme in Kensington

Retirement developer Auriens has won an appeal to start transforming an historic site in Kensington into a high-end retirement village Auriens, renowned for Auriens Chelsea, one of the capital's most luxurious developments, has been granted planning consent for a...

Enjoy a luxurious retirement in SW1

Enjoy a luxurious retirement in SW1

A new retirement development has opened in the capital where buyers are being offered a service charge holiday Chimes is a collection of 39 one-and-two-bedroom apartments in the heart of London, designed to appeal to those looking to downsize from a high-end family...

Preserving the past and investing in nature

Preserving the past and investing in nature

Those who love historic buildings will be excited to learn about the conversion of a stunning 150-year-old former school in Worcester into a luxurious retirement village St Mary's Convent which closed in 2014, is being refurbished and transformed by Enterprise...

Viewing a property in a virtual world

Viewing a property in a virtual world

A specialist in the creation of 3D Virtual Tours, is changing the way we view homes Already established in the retirement and luxury care sectors, Motion Real Estate Media  is looking to enhance what it can offer the industry and the homehunter and allow us to 'visit'...

A night at the opera

A night at the opera

Retirement village stages amphitheatre concert Residents at a retirement village, near Alcester in Warwickshire, have enjoyed an evening of music and opera in the village’s very own on-site amphitheatre. Great Alne Park, operated by award-winning, later-living...

Celebrating two new developments in Salisbury

Celebrating two new developments in Salisbury

Coming soon from McCarthy & Stone, two exciting new developments in the picturesque cathedral city of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Both Castle Gate and Monument Place are on Endless street in the sought-after heart of this vibrant and historic city centre. Castle Gate is...