PRESS

2024

• BBC Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ Programme (from 21:14), 24th January

2023

• SW Londoner, ‘Life at Tonic: The UK's first LGBTQ+ retirement community’, 13th December

• Healthcare Digital, ‘Ensuring the safety of elderly LGBT+ people in care homes’, 17th August

• The Times, ‘What it’s like to live in an LGBT retirement home’, 4th August

• Inside Housing, ‘Pride for life: lessons from the LGBTQ+ retirement community in the heart of London’, 2nd August

• British Vogue, Tim Walker’s Pride Portfolio 2023, July Issue

• Pink News, ‘Care homes host heartwarming Silver Pride events for LGBTQ+ elders: ‘I can finally be myself’, 22nd June

• Waitrose & Partners Weekend Magazine, ‘Flying a flag for the golden years’, 15th June

• GCN, “How LGBTQ+ retirement communities create healing spaces for queer elders”, 7th April

• BBC London News, “Comic Relief 2023: LGBT+ retirement community gets funds”, 17th March

• City News, by Billie-Jo Becker, 17th March

• BBC Morning Live, Tonic Housing Comic Relief Video, 13th March

• The Guardian, “I knew I wanted to stay here for the rest of my life’: how London got its first LGBTQ+ retirement community”, 2nd February

2022

• Gay Times, “10 of the most significant moments for LGBTQ+ people in 2022”, 29th December

• The Times, “The checklist: tips for moving into a retirement home”, 25th November

• Financial Times, “New-generation retirement housing for LGBT+ people”, 11th November

• Gay Times, “UK Black Pride 2022 makes history as “largest Black Pride in the world”, 14th August

• Queer Spaces: Behind the Scene, Episode 2: Tonic Housing, 26th April

• iNews, How we want to live our lives out, by Patrick Strudwick, Printed 29th March

• iNews, ‘Where I can be me’: Inside Britain’s first LGBT retirement home, by Patrick Strudwick, 26th March

• South Londoner, Just the Tonic, Printed March

• LGBT+ History Month, Tonic Housing, 18th March

• Enter Gallery, Enter Gallery sources art for the UK's first LGBTQ+ retirement community, 11th February

2021

• Homo Sapiens Podcast, 148: The Old Gays | Part 1, 21 October

• Rewirement Podcast by L&G, Episode five: Retirement among the LGBT+ community, 8th July

• DIVA Magazine, Just the Tonic, July

• World Habitat, ‘It is all about community’ at the UK’s first LGBT+ affirming retirement community, 4th May

• Inside Housing, A New Action Plan for LGBTQ Housing, 1st February

  + Tonic@Bankhouse Funding Announcement, March 2021 and Tonic@Bankhouse Launch, September 2021 below

Tonic@Bankhouse Funding Announcement, March 2021

• Geoff Pine on BBC Breakfast

• Anna Kear on Sky News

• Evening Standard, Britain’s first LGBT+ retirement village to open in Vauxhall at Norman Foster-designed Bankhouse

• BBC, UK’s ‘first’ LGBT retirement community to open in London

• Independent, Sadiq Khan backs UK’s first retirement community designed for LGBT+ people

• Metro, UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement community to open in London

• Daily Mail, Britain's first retirement complex … will open in London this year after 'proud' Sadiq Khan pledged £5.7million loan to complete scheme

• GAY TIMES, UK’s first ever LGBTQ+ retirement community to open in 2021

• Attitude, UK's first LGBTQ retirement community set to open in 2021

• Openly, UK to open first LGBT+ retirement community as market grows

• OUT, First-Ever LGBTQ+ Retirement Community to Open in London

• Inside Housing, Housing association to open UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement community

• Property Week, One Housing teams with Tonic for LGBT+ retirement scheme

Tonic@Bankhouse Launch, September 2021

• Attitude, Mayor ‘proud’ as UK’s first LGBT+ affirmative retirement community opens in London

• Attitude, Sadiq Khan speaks out in support of trans and non-binary Londoners

• DIVA, Tonic Housing launches the UK’s first LGBTQIA+ retirement community, Tonic@Bankhouse

• Pink News, Sadiq Khan challenges allies to listen to LGBT+ elders: ‘The best history is living history’

• Secret London, The UK’s first LGBT+ retirement community has just opened in London

• My London, Mayor calls London ‘truly diverse, open and inclusive’ as city opens UK’s first LGBTQ+ retirement community

2020

• The Log Books Podcast, “Episode 1: Please be gentle”, Tonic feature from around the 50:00 mark, November

• #STOPageism, Living life as an older LGBT+ person, 13th October

• DIVA Magazine, Older LGBTQI community “feel like the forgotten generations”, 29th September

• Care Management Matters, Building Safe Choices for older LGBT+ people, 29th September

• OUT News Global, Supported housing for older LGBTQ+ people urgently needed. by Sarah Canning, 29th September

2019

• Property Week, Later Living schemes serve LGBT community by Adam Branson, 31 October

• Centre for Ageing Better, New models of community are needed to give LGBT+ people a good later life by Georgia Elander, 16th July

• Estates Gazette, Finding the tonic to house an ageing LGBT+ community by Anna Kear, 5th July

• iNews, The first retirement homes being planned for LGBT OAPs who worry about telling carers their sexuality, 24th June (reprint of The Economist)

• The Economist, A pinker shade of grey, 22nd June (Print & online)

• PinkNews, More older LGBT people in need of affordable housing help than ever before by Harriet Williamson, 14th May

• 24housing, Anna’s Aspiration: Tonic Housing CEO reveals her plans for older LGBT housing, May 2019

2018

• Inside Housing, Embedding LGBT rights as lived experience is our responsibility as housing providers by Dame Clare Tickell, 19th June

• 24housing, Tonic announces new CEO by Bill Tanner, 11th April

• Estates Gazette, LGBT+ developer appoints Chief Executive by Alexander Pearce, 12th April

• Carehome.co.uk, London to get UK's first LGBT+ care home by Sue Learner, 12th April

2017

• The Financial Times, Britain’s old age industry gears up for baby boomers by Naomi Rovnick, November

• Attitude magazine, No Country for Old Men by Chris Godfrey, April

• Care Talk, Tonic Housing: A fresh approach to LGBT+ older living, 25th August

• Estates Gazette, LGBT retirement homes could be the Tonic to loneliness by Samantha McClary, 4th July

2016

• The Times, First gay home stops pensioners going back into the closet by Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester, 13th December

• Broadly (Vice), For ageing trans people, growing old is especially isolating by Chris Godfrey, 14th June

2015

• Carehome.co.uk, UK could have its first 'LGBT-friendly' care village by 2020 by Ellie Spanswick, 30th October

• Quadratin Hidalgo, Un asilo LGBT en Londres by Luis Alberto Rodríguez, 19th September

• Gay Realty Network, Britain to Get First Ever LGBT Retirement Home, by Scott Coatsworth, 18th September

• BT, Britain is set to get its first gay old people’s home by Emma Lazenby, 18th September

• PinkNews, Britain to get first ever LGBT retirement home by Joseph Patrick McCormick, 18th September

• Stonewall, Care for older LGBT folk by Sarah Moore, 18th September

• The Huffington Post, Britain’s First Care Home For Elderly LGBT Could Open In Next Three Years by Natasha Hinde, 17th September

• Yahoo News, Britain Set For First Gay Old People's Home, 17th September

• Gay Times, Britain to open first LGBT retirement home by Dean Eastmond, 16th September

• Metro, Britain to get first gay old people’s home by Oliver McAteer, 16th September

• Buzzfeed UK, The UK's First Gay Old People's Home To Open Within Three Years by Patrick Strudwick, 16th September

• Ham & High Property, Retirement property to lust after by Prudence Ivey, 9th October

• Fellowship for Intentional Community, European Projects Explore Cohousing for LGBT Elders by Saul Of-Hearts, 2nd May

• Community Care, LGBT housing project will challenge ‘status-quo’ on how care and support is delivered by Rachel Carter, 25th February