About Riverside

The Riverside Group is one of the largest and most experienced housing association groups in the country, with national coverage and roots dating back to the early 20th century.

A diverse Group with a charitable housing association at the centre

At the heart of the Group is a not-for-profit charitable housing association, The Riverside Group Ltd (Riverside) – a Private Registered Provider of Social Housing registered with the Regulator of Social Housing. The Group has a separately regulated housing association subsidiary operating in Scotland, and commercial subsidiaries. We have entered a number of joint ventures to deliver large scale development and regeneration schemes.

Well run by an experienced non-executive Board with significant customer influence

Riverside is led by a skilled Group Board comprising non-executive members and the Chief Executive. Customers play a vital role in our governance, and we provide opportunities for them to engage at every level of the organisation, with a member and an observer on Group Board, as well as customers on all of our key service committees. There is a range of other ways customers help shape our priorities, through formal engagement structures such as Tenant & Resident Influence Partnership (TRIP), Resident Panels in London, scrutiny panels and digital engagement through our burgeoning iCommunity.

An organisation with a clear social purpose

“Homes for the life you want to live.”

Our mission is to build partnerships and trust with our customers by delivering excellence in services, safe homes and communities, with engaged colleagues who are committed to creating places where people can feel proud.

Our purpose is to provide a range of homes and services for those who cannot meet their housing needs through the market, because of their incomes or other barriers associated with age, homelessness, disability or health. We are not just a ‘bricks and mortar’ organisation, and have adopted a wider vision where we seek to support the livelihoods of our customers and the communities they live in. We are also a campaigning organisation, working through our networks to bring about positive change to national policy.

Our values

We Care

We are Inclusive

We are Trusted

To fulfil our social purpose, we have adopted a set of values which flow through the organisation and influence the way we behave. Our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion is central to this and we have recently reviewed our organisational values to make this more explicit.

What we do

Riverside provide a range of homes and services for a diverse group of customers.

Around seven in 10 of our homes are let at either social or affordable rents.

We also have a significant low-cost home ownership offer – predominantly shared ownership – and build homes for outright sale to help people get on the housing ladder, with profits gift-aided back to the charity.

We are an active developer of new homes and provide property management services to leaseholders who own their apartments. Find out more:

We are now one of the country’s largest providers of supported housing, providing support services to client groups ranging from those who are homeless – often with multiple complex needs – through to older customers requiring ‘extra care’. This is a commitment we will retain. We also offer additional services to support livelihoods and sustain tenancies across all customer groups as they face an unprecedented cost of living crisis. This includes financial support by way of small grants, money and affordable warmth advice, and help for tenants seeking employment. In this way our work to tackle homelessness is truly cross-cutting.