17/03/2025
We're asking local residents who want to look after the natural world in their communities to come forward and become a Tree Guardian. We've linked up with Manchester charity, City of Trees, and so far planted 76 new trees in eight neighbourhoods across Oldham. These are: Egerton Street, Eldon...
17/03/2025
A new local community garden was officially opened by our chief executive, Mark Gifford on Saturday (17 March) after we allowed the land to be used for a re development project. The area at Eden Street - next to Barker St Community Centre - has been re-generated by local community group OL1 with...
10/03/2025
Our latest senior leadership appointment is now in post as Jayne Lawson takes up the role of Executive Director of Customer Experience. Jayne started in her new position at the beginning of this month as our chief executive, Mark Gifford, continues to strengthen his senior team. This latest annou...
10/03/2025
International Women’s Day was marked at First Choice Homes Oldham’s (FCHO) Alt Community Centre with a series of special events. We invited from Oldham College's beauty therapy students to give residents free beauty treatments such as manicures to help them develop their experience in their chose...
04/03/2025
As part of our on-going plan to improve the energy efficiency of our homes, we will invest £31.4 million over the next five years as a third wave of work is set to start this spring. The investment, at no cost to our customers, aims to bring a third of our housing stock up to Energy Performance C...
04/03/2025
It’s National Careers Week and a perfect time to remind customers that our Directions employment service is here to support you with finding work, training or volunteering, if you need a hand. The week is all about celebrating careers guidance for young people and our specialist team can offer ta...
04/03/2025
As part of our commitment to make our business more sustainable and support the government’s net zero targets, we are encouraging all companies in our Assets and Delivery supply chain to complete essential learning and gain accreditations via the Supply Chain Sustainability School – an online pla...
13/02/2025
Schoolchildren who named a new play park next to our West Vale development were guests of honour when it was officially opened. We asked pupils from Richmond Academy, The Harmony Trust to think of suitable names for the much-needed 150 square metre park at Broome Street we have funded. Onyx class...
12/02/2025
It’s National Apprenticeship Week and we are celebrating the hard work and dedication of our 11 talented apprentices who are gaining hands-on experience in a range of job roles, from joinery to ICT. To reinforce our ongoing commitment to providing valuable training and employment opportunities in...
03/02/2025
The winners of our ‘Budding Neighbourhoods’ 2024 gardening competition have been announced. The online event encourages our customers to enter three categories to showcase their horticultural skills and win vouchers. The categories were: A Brew and My View, to show off planting efforts while enj...