Campaigners fighting to save a supported-accommodation home in Aberystwyth have met with a co-operative centre to get advice on their battle.

Members of the Friends of Jasper House, including chair Dr Lucy Gough, met with advisers from the Wales Co-operative Centre’s co-operative and community-led housing team as they put together plans to try to take over the accommodation.

Dr Gough and Friends of Jasper House committee member Anthony Burgess ran through a range of options with the WCC representatives, saying they hoped they would be able to reach an agreement with the Abbeyfield Wales Society, which operates the private supported accommodation at Jasper House.

Dr Gough said: “We are keen to see a return to the principles of Jasper House being somewhere which combats loneliness and which is situated within the community. In this, Jasper House is currently unique in the area.”

WCC programme manager Jocelle Lovell said the group would be keen to support the Friends of Jasper House.

She said: “This is just the sort of project we are happy to support, promoting as it does older people as part of the community.”

During the meeting, Dr Gough said Abbeyfield Society Wales had been working with the Friends to set out terms for the possible purchase of the property.

After the meeting Dr Gough said: “We know that the task is a difficult one, but after today’s meeting I think that we are gaining the tools to allow us to carve a path through the various regulatory requirements and keep up the current high standards at Jasper House.”