On The Brink Community - Who we are!
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Meet some of the lovely people who make up our cohousing community. We are not identikit people, but we do all believe in similar things when it comes to ecological and social values and playing an active part in our local community.
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As a cohousing group we share a lot of things including cars and bikes, most tools and appliances, communal spaces within the building and a large impressive garden. We also enjoy regular get-togethers, creating the garden and hosting community events.
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Adrian and Linda
Aejaz
Alison
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Jeremy
Lisa
Jeannie
Kate
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Mariam
Paul
The Froggatts
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Jo
Martin
Tom
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Adrian and Linda were looking to move into a cohousing community when we found On the Brink in 2021. We moved from Leeds right at the end of the second phase of building development at OTB, and when there were still Covid restrictions in place; so it was an odd time! But we like living in Sheffield and enjoy community living in a lovely setting. We both cycle a lot, very occasionally on a tandem!
Aejaz is an engineer, designer and researcher developing technologies for disability. His work spans academia, industry and the health service. Although he has lived and worked internationally for much of his career, he has found a community in Sheffield that he can always call home.
Alison is the Chaplain at the Whirlow Spirituality Centre and has been very pleased to find a home at On The Brink, as she’s new to Sheffield. She enjoys having friendly neighbours and especially appreciates those with gardening and DIY skills, which are not her strengths. She really enjoys cooking and is very pleased to have regular opportunities to do some baking when there are community activities.
Jane has now retired after a long career in inclusive education in the Post-16 and HE sectors. She specialised in working with students with sensory disabilities and specific learning differences. Jane is happiest when OTB kids are marauding through her Flat and is looking forward to the new kids in the pipeline. She is putting her head in the sand about the ‘teenage years’.
Jeremy is an artist, Principal Lecturer in Media Arts and Quality lead at Sheffield Hallam University. In his spare time he is a keen climber/cyclist and walker enjoying being out in the landscape. He makes and collaborates on short vfx films, 3D projects, multi-screen installations and photographic work.
A recent collaborative project https://www4.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/walk-speed-light-new-mobile-app-sheffield
Jo is an artist, researcher and lecturer. She is undertaking a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University and is a Research Associate at MMU. She loves dancing and making fires and sometimes runs up and down hills for fun. Not her own cat.
Kate is a founder member of On the Brink. Her quest has been to create cohousing in the community of Nether Edge where she has lived for 25 years - the vision is now reality!
Lisa is living the dream at Brincliffe House. She was advised by her aunt, then living in a care home, to start looking for people to live alongside, to try to make a home where life was fun and where people looked out for each other and the planet before it got too late. On The Brink looked like an answer. Lisa is a retired nurse whose career was mainly spent, very happily, working with people living with dementia. She now enjoys being a grandmother, singing as often as possible with a number of choirs and small groups, voluntary work with a variety of organisations, a stained glass class, sculpture workshops and making jam.
Mariam has lived in Sheffield intermittently since 2006, having now finally settled here to raise her young family. She is a full time employee of Danyal and Raya incorporated and part time linguist. Previous adventures include many travels, some exciting documentary film projects in Pakistan and a production at “The Globe”. She hopes at OTB she is part of a community that will live the change they want to see in the world - and it’s been a promising start.
Martin is a musician & teacher who taught in a mixed-needs special school for many years in south London, where he still has a base. His musical journey has taken him from classical beginnings through modern jazz, to Eastern European Balkan and Klezmer, recently studying at Plovdiv Academy in Bulgaria & SOAS in London & working as musical coordinator with London Gypsy Orchestra. He particularly enjoys and is inspired by, the ‘song/ dance based’ community aspect of music-making. He’s a keen cyclist, swimmer and hill walker, and hopes that On The Brink will flourish and develop in ways that can bring us together as a community with vision & purpose.
Rose is an artist, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art and PhD scholar in the Cultural Communications and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a board member of Bloc Projects and a member of the Artist Advisory Board for Making Ways; Sheffield. She makes short films, multi-screen installations and photographic works most of the time, on occasions she makes a nice damson cheesecake.
www.rosebutler.com
@RoseButler2
The Froggatts
We are a young family who enjoy having adventures with the rest of our community. Between us we care about cars, playing in the mud, books set in magical worlds and social justice!
Tom has been living at Brincliffe House since the cohousing experiment started here in 2018. After many years as the On the Brink treasurer he has transferred his allegiance to the ‘Outside Group’ and is helping maintain and develop the gardens and outside spaces. Although almost entirely retired from his former professional life in the Open University and with the NHS, he fills much of his time making stained glass and ceramic pieces and goofing around with his grandchildren.
Aejaz is an engineer, designer and researcher developing technologies for disability. His work spans academia, industry and the health service. Although he has lived and worked internationally for much of his career, he has found a community in Sheffield that he can always call home.
Alison is the Chaplain at the Whirlow Spirituality Centre and has been very pleased to find a home at On The Brink, as she’s new to Sheffield. She enjoys having friendly neighbours and especially appreciates those with gardening and DIY skills, which are not her strengths. She really enjoys cooking and is very pleased to have regular opportunities to do some baking when there are community activities.
Jane has now retired after a long career in inclusive education in the Post-16 and HE sectors. She specialised in working with students with sensory disabilities and specific learning differences. Jane is happiest when OTB kids are marauding through her Flat and is looking forward to the new kids in the pipeline. She is putting her head in the sand about the ‘teenage years’.
Jeremy is an artist, Principal Lecturer in Media Arts and Quality lead at Sheffield Hallam University. In his spare time he is a keen climber/cyclist and walker enjoying being out in the landscape. He makes and collaborates on short vfx films, 3D projects, multi-screen installations and photographic work.
A recent collaborative project https://www4.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/walk-speed-light-new-mobile-app-sheffield
Jo is an artist, researcher and lecturer. She is undertaking a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University and is a Research Associate at MMU. She loves dancing and making fires and sometimes runs up and down hills for fun. Not her own cat.
Kate is a founder member of On the Brink. Her quest has been to create cohousing in the community of Nether Edge where she has lived for 25 years - the vision is now reality!
Lisa is living the dream at Brincliffe House. She was advised by her aunt, then living in a care home, to start looking for people to live alongside, to try to make a home where life was fun and where people looked out for each other and the planet before it got too late. On The Brink looked like an answer. Lisa is a retired nurse whose career was mainly spent, very happily, working with people living with dementia. She now enjoys being a grandmother, singing as often as possible with a number of choirs and small groups, voluntary work with a variety of organisations, a stained glass class, sculpture workshops and making jam.
Mariam has lived in Sheffield intermittently since 2006, having now finally settled here to raise her young family. She is a full time employee of Danyal and Raya incorporated and part time linguist. Previous adventures include many travels, some exciting documentary film projects in Pakistan and a production at “The Globe”. She hopes at OTB she is part of a community that will live the change they want to see in the world - and it’s been a promising start.
Martin is a musician & teacher who taught in a mixed-needs special school for many years in south London, where he still has a base. His musical journey has taken him from classical beginnings through modern jazz, to Eastern European Balkan and Klezmer, recently studying at Plovdiv Academy in Bulgaria & SOAS in London & working as musical coordinator with London Gypsy Orchestra. He particularly enjoys and is inspired by, the ‘song/ dance based’ community aspect of music-making. He’s a keen cyclist, swimmer and hill walker, and hopes that On The Brink will flourish and develop in ways that can bring us together as a community with vision & purpose.
Rose is an artist, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art and PhD scholar in the Cultural Communications and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a board member of Bloc Projects and a member of the Artist Advisory Board for Making Ways; Sheffield. She makes short films, multi-screen installations and photographic works most of the time, on occasions she makes a nice damson cheesecake.
www.rosebutler.com
@RoseButler2
The Froggatts
We are a young family who enjoy having adventures with the rest of our community. Between us we care about cars, playing in the mud, books set in magical worlds and social justice!
Tom has been living at Brincliffe House since the cohousing experiment started here in 2018. After many years as the On the Brink treasurer he has transferred his allegiance to the ‘Outside Group’ and is helping maintain and develop the gardens and outside spaces. Although almost entirely retired from his former professional life in the Open University and with the NHS, he fills much of his time making stained glass and ceramic pieces and goofing around with his grandchildren.