Friends fund new flats
Quaker housing association converts arts and craft workshop and showroom into three extra-care flats.
A Quaker housing association based in the Lake District has converted a 1920s former workshop and showroom into three extra-care flats for older people. The Gatesbield Quaker Housing Association created two fully wheelchair-accessible flats on the ground floor, and a first-floor flat out of the workshop of a renowned arts and crafts furniture maker, Stanley Webb Davies. The conversion of Craft Cottage in Windermere brings the number of homes the association runs to twenty-two.
David Le Mare, a trustee of Gatesbield Quaker Housing Association, said: ‘The Board of Management would like to record its thanks to those who, through their generous donations and grants, have made this possible.’
The project was funded by Swarthmoor Area Meeting, which gave £95,000 alongside South Lakeland District Council, which awarded £90,000 from its community-led housing scheme; and Cumbria County Council, which gave £90,000 match funding. There were also several generous private donors.
