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Community, Real Residents, Retirement living
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Residents awarded grant to support community gardening club

Funding provided by Live Longer Better – a programme to promote health and wellbeing – will help a group of Paignton retirees expand their popular…

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Real Residents, Retirement living
Couple celebrating their wedding, surrounded by guests.

Retirement development hosts residents’ marriage celebrations

It’s been a busy time for two retirees at FirstPort’s Poplar Court in Lytham St Annes’s. First moving into the development, then arranging a civil…

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Real Residents, Retirement living
Red wheelbarrow filled with colorful flowers and a small Union Jack flag.

FirstPort retirement development awarded 2nd place in local gardening competition

A FirstPort retirement development has secured second place in this year’s Runnymede in Bloom gardening competition. Onslow Mews – an independent-living retirement development in Surrey…

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Charity, Real Residents, Retirement living

Retiree using his art skills to raise money for charity

FirstPort customer and self-taught artist Brian Francis, 89, has been putting his art skills to the test by selling his paintings to raise money for…

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Retirement living
Two women, then and now;  one image shows them older, the other younger in uniform.

The Rise of the Retirement Roomie: Over 55s consider house shares to save money and avoid loneliness

Approximately one in three (30%) over 55s would consider a house share in later life 63% cite finances, whilst 40% say it’s to avoid loneliness…

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