Place Shaping
A Blueprint For Retirement Living
Our blueprint
Our vision goes beyond creating retirement villages — we’re building connected, resilient, thriving communities where everyone belongs. The DNA is ensuring Connection, Contribution and Choice for our residents and full integration with the local community.
Join our network
David Williams (CEO St Monica Trust, Bristol, UK) and Jason Eldering (CEO Southern Cross Care, Queensland) are bringing a network together advocating for ensuring older people are at the heart of how our communities are designed and developed. Fill in the contact form below to join us and keep up-to-date.
Any examples?
The St Monica Trust opened The Chocolate Quarter in 2017 - the first retirement village in the UK fully open to the local community. Read the case study.
Jason Eldering, CEO Southern Cross Care, Queensland, Australia.
“It is time to open the gates and reimagine retirement living.”
David Williams, CEO St Monica Trust, Bristol, UK.
CASE STUDY
The Chocolate Quarter – St Monica Trust’s groundbreaking retirement village at the centre of the Somerdale community in Keynsham near Bristol
Join the Place Shaping Network
We believe older people should be at the heart of how our communities are designed and developed. After all, older people are the glue that holds communities together. Our vision goes beyond creating retirement villages — we’re building connected, thriving places where everyone belongs. Join the Place Shaping Network and help us build communities that truly value and include older people by putting them at the centre of the community. Submit the contact form below and we’ll keep you up-to-date.
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