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…
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…
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…
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…
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…