Jackie Carpenter

Jackie was a founder member of Trelay Cohousing Community in Cornwall where she lived for 12 years. She built a tiny house there and wrote a book, “Hope on the Slope”. She has been a Director of the UK Cohousing Network for several years. Jackie has had considerable experience with the legal, financial and planning aspects of rural cohousing, and her on-line course in September 2020 “Cohousing in Country Buildings” was well-received. She is a Quaker, a chartered engineer used to managing large projects, a sustainability and renewable energy consultant, a granny, and a winner of cups for vegetables in the local show. She loves wildlife and the sea. She is developing a course, “A Quaker response to Climate Collapse”.