Satsuma Neighbour

01/01/2026

2026… Let’s be having you!

29/12/2025

Such a perfect Christmas story. Beautiful and immensely moving. The homeless population is disproportionately off the scale with autistic people, if only they all could have an outcome such as this and feel safe, secure, understood and supported, throughout their lives.
My ultimate aim for Satsuma Neighbour (satsumaneighbour.org) is to change these terrible statistics and how independent living really works, for the most vulnerable amongst us.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14SvkZW72Wq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

On 23 December 1975, Rob Parsons and his wife Dianne were preparing for Christmas at their Cardiff home when they heard a knock at the door.

On their doorstep stood a man with a bin bag containing his possessions in his right hand and a frozen chicken in his left.

Rob studied the man's face and vaguely remembered him as Ronnie Lockwood, someone he would occasionally see at Sunday School as a boy and who he was told to be kind to as he was a "bit different".

Then he said two words that changed the couple’s lives, “come in”.

📸 Rob Parsons

Read more: https://bbc.in/4jhPRfh

12/11/2025

Always fired up and full of anticipation at the start of our monthly working group meetings around our kitchen table. Today’s did not disappoint! Exciting developments and some significant progress made towards our goal. 🍊.

20/10/2025

Big news from Satsuma Neighbour CIC!

So pleased to share this news that we now have legal structure and status!

12/08/2025

Good afternoon. We are now on LinkedIn, so please do connect with us there also. Or sign up to our mailing list from out website satsumaneighbour.org, to receive updates and news. Thank you!

04/08/2025

Change is possible and change is needed. We just have to follow what we know is right.

In Uruguay, families co-own and co-build their homes through housing cooperatives. Some chip in savings, others swing hammers.

The result? Affordable, dignified housing that stays off the private market, and a blueprint the world can learn from.

https://tcnv.link/uEORGTZ

21/07/2025

TOMORROW (Tuesday 22nd July) 12 - 2pm is the FINAL opportunity to have your views heard and taken into consideration, in a bonus Webinar hosted by the National Development Team for Inclusion - NDTi and inspired by Satsuma Neighbour, on your experiences and/or dreams for supportive housing. Either for yourself or for your family members. Please do sign up using the link below, to be included. Your voice means everything.

NDTi works with all local authorities in England to provide support and training on good Preparation for Adulthood.  Young people with support needs and families have been telling us for years that supported housing is a mystery which is often impossible to find.    We’d like t...

04/06/2025

Preparing for Adulthood Housing & Independent Living Webinars start this week. Are you a parent or carer of a young person with support needs? We’d love to hear about your experiences with housing and independent living and what what the ideal options for your young person would be

Join a webinar or fill in a short survey:
https://www.ndti.org.uk/events/preparing-for-adulthood-housing-and-independent-living-webinars

30/05/2025

Hello and welcome to Satsuma Neighbour Facebook!

First post and an Important one, please action and share.

For anyone on here who has offspring with support needs of any age (or knows someone who does), who wonders where on earth they may live one day... We are delighted that the National Development Team for Inclusion - NDTi, inspired by the vision of Satsuma Neighbour, are undertaking this research.

Please do open the attached link and sign up for a webinar next week (3rd, 5th, 10th June) and complete the short survey. Incredibly, there is virtually no research at all on supportive, independent living and options and choices for individuals with support needs.

We'd be so grateful for anyone sharing this post, THANK YOU!

Use this link:
https://www.ourvoiceenfield.org.uk/downloads/Housing_Webinars_June_2025.pdf