Platinum Magazine – June 2022- A lovely article about homesharing
and in the I newspaper
Friday 4th March 2022
Delighted to read about out Homeshare couple yesterday in The Sunday Times 27th February 2022
What happened when a 35-year-old and 85-year-old shared a house?
When Ben Aitken rented a room from recently-widowed Winnie neither had an inkling they would end up the best of friends.
The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple. 
By Ben Aitken
Ben is a writer and has been one of our Sharers since October 2020. He’s written a hilarious book based on his home-share experience during the Covid lockdowns of 2020 The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple will be published in March 2022, can be pre-ordered now, and has been described by the novelist Jenny Colgan as ‘charming, warming, and very, very funny’.
Share and Care Homeshare’s director Caroline Cooke reviewed the book: “This is a truly laugh-out-loud read. Very loud, frequent laughter, much to my husband’s annoyance! Highlighting anecdotes from a year living in a homeshare arrangement during lock-down (no easy feat for anyone), The Marmalade Diaries is a well-observed and insightful account of two people living together and growing a genuine, caring friendship, despite coming from different generations. Ben’s writing is empathetic and his stories really resonated… many were very, very recognisable… especially from people I know who grew up during the war! I highly recommend this. I read it in one sitting as I couldn’t put it down! And I was in tears at the end. The wonderful warmth and humour between Ben and ‘W…’ is palpable; theirs is a genuine friendship that will last for life.” Definitely *****
December 2021 – Metro Newspaper – Moving in with an 84-year old stranger
October 2021 – Dementia together magazine- How homesharing can give people with dementia support and friendship
by Gareth Bracken. 
Our Founder Caroline Cooke speaking to Riverside radio about intergenerational living. The piece starts at 15.07 mins into the news bulletin.
February 2021- Sunday Times
Robin, Jill and Olivia a lovely Share and Care Homeshare match talk to about their Homeshare expereince.
February 2021 – Housing Lin blog 
by Caroline Cooke
Founder of Share and Care Homeshare
January 2021 that’s life! magazine
Sunday Times November 22nd 2020
Would you find a flatmate to avoid lockdown loneliness? | Home | The Sunday Times (thetimes.co.uk)
October 2020 Yours Issue 361
Every evening, Iris and Johanna head into the kitchen to cook their evening meal together. They may not eat the same food and they may be decades apart in age, but in this moment, they find a lovely opportunity to chat about their days and enjoy one another’s company.
July 2020 Count your blessings – Lark Music client Louise Kaye personifies caring but during lockdown sharing her home with a musician through the Share and Care Homeshare has brought her ‘complete joy’, she tells Private Client Director Julie Webb
April 2020 Time and Leisure P 18/19 Spread a little happiness- Wimbledon is at the forefront in tackling loneliness
1st January 2020 Radio 4 -Positive Thinking programme. All under one roof? Listen to one of our Householders talking about his experience of having a Sharer.
2nd December 2019 Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ Caroline Cooke speaks about Homeshare https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bx1p
The Observer 17th February 2019 Share and Care Sharer Tina GotlaAluri tells The Observer how homesharing helped her when she was struggling to cope with sky- high London rents.
Share & Care clients Poppy and John as featured in the Daily Mail 31st January 2018 Talking about home sharing and being Britain’s most unlikely flatmates.
Read about Share & Care clients Jennifer and Judith
Loneliness: Home share that can be a lifeline to the isolate
Time Out-March 2017
My Weekly-February 2016
Women and Home- June 2014
We featured in the Guardian in 2012.
