This is a copy of the press release and announcement we released in March 2025.

LUBERON LIFE EVOLVES

Dear Members,

Luberon Life, was founded on 23rd March 2020 and is celebrating its 5th birthday in 2025.  We started as Luberon Lockdown when the first Covid wave hit, and began with 20 members.  Our goal was to support members of the International Community in the Luberon who lived remotely and alone and whose French was insufficient to follow all the government requirements and news about the pandemic.  

Optimistically, after the first wave, we thought it would all be over.  We took a vote to continue, but to change the name to Luberon Life.  

Our growth has been consistent and who would have thought that we would now have more than 600 members from 27 Nationalities. We have grown by over 50% in the last year alone.

Our goals remain the same:  To support our community with useful, value-added information.

As we have grown and expanded into organizing events for our members, it became necessary for Luberon Life to evolve into a legal French entity in the form of an Association.  We are no longer just a WhatsApp group with a supporting website, we are now officially Association Luberon Life.  

This change became effective on 1st January 2025. As a member, you do not need to do anything.

Some changes

Expenses

Up until now, Laurie, Lovonne and Simon have been paying our annual expenses for the domain name and the hosting function for tribalknowledgeluberon.com.

If we organize events, we need to conform to French law and form an Association and have insurance, a bank account and be audited.  This has necessitated additional costs.

However, we do not wish to change the ethos of Luberon Life: providing the community with useful information and providing a platform for small commercial opportunities.

We do not wish to retreat behind a paywall.

In December 2024, we were approached by Maison Victoire, an Estate Agent based in Cabrieres d’Avignon to sponsor Luberon Life. We have accepted this offer and this will allow us to cover our additional expenses.

Our Association is non-profit, and any monies left over at the end of the year will either contribute to our next event or be donated to charity. 

Membership

Each member is still at liberty to nominate new member/s. This nomination must please be forwarded to either Laurie or Simon (as it is today) but one of the administrators will call the new member and brief him/her about our philosophy and collect any missing details, such as commune or nationality.

Thank you for your continued support.

Laurie ROTH 

Présidente, Association Luberon Life

Simon BURROW 

Vice-Président, Association Luberon Life

• The notice of our registration in the Journal Officiel and our statutes are displayed on tribalknowledgeluberon.com/association..
• If you wish to contribute to the expenses of the Association, please go to tribalknowledgeluberon.com  and click on ‘association Luberon Life’.