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Kensington Scheme Greenlit

Luxury senior living developer Auriens has received planning permission by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for its 142-unit scheme in Kensington.

17 December 2020

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Later Life Stories - A Journeyman’s Joy

Since retiring, the former head teacher has written and illustrated around a dozen hiking guides and trekked solo across the UK.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - The Health Crusader

At 19, as a recruit in Churchill’s secret army, Helen Taylor Thompson sent coded messages to agents in France and Germany. She went on to co-ordinate the opening of the first AIDS hospice in Europe and co-founded Community Action Network (CAN) and Thare Machi Education, charities which reach out to vulnerable people all over the world today.

Cera

Auriens Ventures made an investment in Cera.

Auriens Ventures made its first significant investment by taking a minority stake into Cera.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Road Runner

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile Charles Eugster, the 97 year old athlete. Since his life affirming story we are sad to learn of the loss of Charles and pass condolences to his family

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Model

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile Daphne Selfe, the 88 year old supermodel.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Comedienne

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 83 years old Lynn Ruth Miller.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Entrepreneur

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 69 years old Linda Rodin.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Alpinist

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 84 years old Yuichiro Miura.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Triathlete

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 86 years old Sister Madonna Buder.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Sailor

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 78 years old Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – Artisan On Song

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile Gio-Batta Morassi.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Cowboy

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 85 years old Bob Holder.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Philanthropist

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 83 years old Dame Stephanie Shirley

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Diver

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 84 years old Hideko Umeno.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – The Cyclist

Auriens, in association with the Financial Times, are profiling individuals who redefine later life. This week we profile 105 years old Robert Marchand.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – Animal Advocate

Virginia McKenna began her career as an actress and found fame playing Joy Adamson in the 1966 film Born Free. Making the movie fired a passionate desire to protect animals; that still drives her work with the Born Free Foundation, which she co-founded in 1984.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – Speed Queen

After three decades as a celebrity speed queen, Dubliner Rosemary Smith retired from rally driving. But then, a few months before her 80th birthday, she received an offer she couldn’t refuse – a drive in a Formula One car.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories – Star Man

At 75, his curiosity and enthusiasm undimmed, this Nasa research scientist has no plans to scale down his search for extraterrestrial life. As far as he’s concerned, he’s just getting started.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Witness to History

Japan’s first female photojournalist fought discrimination to chronicle her nation’s postwar devastation. Now into her second century, she is still working despite breaking her legs and hand in a fall.

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Later Life Stories - A Taste for Life

Madhur Jaffrey may be best known for having revolutionised the way we see Indian food globally, but the polymath chef, writer and actor has many more strings to her bow. Now 84, her hunger for all that the world has to offer is far from sated.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Father of String Theory

The son of a hard-working plumber from The Bronx became the ‘father of string theory’ and one of the world’s most eminent physicists. He is now a best-selling author who is not afraid of a challenge.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Maestro of Venice

The Venetian glass master’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. But his inspiration both in art and life comes from simple pleasures close to home.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Living Art

One evening she suddenly decided to give up her career as an acclaimed culinary author to become an outsider artist.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - An Artist’s Impression

Fresh from high school, Floyd Norman began his career as an in-betweener at Walt Disney studios. The first African-American artist to work at Disney, he has successfully spanned the worlds of hand-drawn and computer animation. Floyd Norman was the subject of the 2016 documentary, “An Animated Life.”

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - The Bard's Bluestocking

Retired journalist and author of six books, Joy has completed five degrees and is putting the finishing touches to her PHD on Elizabethan literature at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Not content with scholarship alone, she has directed several plays for the Institute’s theatre group.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Social Media Champion

After a career in marketing in the beauty industry, Angela Laws came out of retirement to become social media manager for TrustedHousesitters, a global digital business that matches house and pet-sitters, and learned how to create online content and manage digital communities

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Restless Creative

Arthur Taussig has a master’s degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in biophysics from UCLA. In the early 1960s, he went on to teach film and photography at Orange Coast College, a community college in California. When he retired in 2001, at the age of 60, his life’s work really began.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Broadcaster to Baroness

After a broadcasting career spanning several decades, Joan Bakewell was made a working peer and the voice of older people in the House of Lords

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - The Serial Entrepreneur

With several successful ventures behind him, Bob Gould doesn’t need to endure the blood, sweat and tears of building up a new business, but he can’t think of anything he’d rather do.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Helping Others

Jeffrey works tirelessly for charitable causes. It doesn’t matter if you’re 4 or 104, Jeffrey’s efforts show that everyone can do something to help.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - Owning your age

Retired at 65 in the wake of a life-changing family event, Tricia Cusden asked herself what she wanted from the rest of her life. Five years on, the phenomenal success of her online makeup brand, Look Fabulous Forever, has given her the answer.

Financial Times

Later Life Stories - From Motorbikes to Monkeys

The former motorbike racer and entrepreneur runs Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire and The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, together with his family

Property Week

Kensington Scheme Greenlit

Luxury senior living developer Auriens has received planning permission by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for its 142-unit scheme in Kensington.

BIM Awards 2020

Auriens Chelsea wins ‘Project of the Year’ at BIM Awards 2020

Auriens Chelsea has won the coveted ‘Project of the Year’ accolade in the over £50 million category at this year’s BIM Awards in partnership with construction firm Multiplex.

Case studies

Auriens Care Case Studies

Care costs at Auriens are significantly lower than the equivalent in-home service. This is due to the efficiencies of having a permanent team on-site, together with the option of shorter care visits and residents not usually requiring a carer to live-in.

Case studies

Financial Case Study

Patricia is aged 82 and lives alone in a 3,250 sqft 5-bedroom family home in Chelsea.

The Sunday Times

Gold Age Pensioners

Pool and spa, not pipe and slippers: inside the capital’s £12m retirement pads

Property Week

We should aim to meet growing demand for high-tech, collaborative retirement living

Much has been written about the housing needs and desires of millennials, but I would argue that, with our ageing population, the sector should also be paying attention to how innovation in technology and design can be applied to providing better housing options for seniors.