08/06/2020
We’ve recently joined other housing associations across Greater Manchester (GM) in signing the GM Care Leavers Covenant Pledge. The pledge focuses on three themes: Offering choice to young people Often, social housing organisations are the first landlord care leavers experience when they leave...
04/06/2020
Kay Powell, Repairs Planner in Property Care, usually spends her days working with the team on our Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) programme. But when lockdown was enforced, she answered the call for volunteers to help support the local Covid-19 response and became a personal shop...
03/06/2020
“I had an incredible time at First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) on placement and my experience will undoubtedly help me with my career. Thank you to the Neighbourhoods Team that helped me.” says customer Simon Duffy who volunteered with us to get back on the road to employment. Now he’s on track fo...
02/06/2020
Coronavirus hasn’t stopped our Community Impact Advisor Annarosa from improving lives in Oldham as she’s recently helped one of our customers erase nearly £3,000 worth of debt! Our customer, who is a single parent originally from Zimbabwe, now lives in Oldham with her two children. She works as a...
02/06/2020
We’re delighted to see that the kindness and generosity of volunteers Emma Cafferky, Stronger Communities Manager and Zerg Raja, Stronger Communities Officer has been captured for generations to come in Oldham’s Lockdown Museum. Run by Gallery Oldham, the museum is a new digital project to collec...
01/06/2020
“It’s brilliant that not only are we supporting our customers, but we’re making a difference to people across Oldham and the region - and I’m loving every minute of it,” says Zerg Raja, one of our Stronger Communities Officers who has been volunteering with various local organisations throughout...
25/05/2020
Update - the winners! Thank you to everyone who entered our lockdown competition! We had some fabulous entries; so much so, we couldn't pick just one winner. All our budding Van Gogh's received an amazing art set to create some more fantastic masterpieces! Take a look at the entries below: Wel...
20/05/2020
Today across social media, organisations are coming together to say a Big Housing Thank You to our frontline housing workers who’ve helped to kept things running during these uncertain times. We’re joining in with the messages of thanks by sharing a video of some of our fantastic frontline staff....
20/05/2020
From Wednesday 20 May we restarted our grass cutting service. Thanks to you all for hanging in there while we had to postpone our service due to coronavirus. We know some of our areas are looking overgrown and a bit unloved at the moment. We take pride in keeping our neighbourhoods neat and tidy...
19/05/2020
This week the Housing Minister has written a letter to all social housing tenants in England to update them on the steps regarding coronavirus that the government is taking to prepare to reopen society and support social housing tenants to move on with their lives. As your landlord, our priority...