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Our new tracking service for repairs

Similar to services like Amazon, Deliveroo and Uber, we’ve launched a new tracking feature for our repairs service. It’s part of our Customer Plan and our commitment to improving our services based on your feedback. This new feature will come in an additional SMS message on the day of your appointment, with an accurate arrival
Read moreWant to have your say on housing in Greater Manchester – fill in this survey now

Do you live in Greater Manchester? Do you think tenants should have their say on the priorities landlords focus on? Do you want your landlord to champion causes that tenants care about to our political leaders? Do you want housing in the region to improve? If this is you, then fill in the Greater Manchester
Read moreHealth and well-being blossoms across generations at Willow Brook

Young gardeners have been springing into action planting seeds and singing songs, bringing smiles to the faces of older residents at Riverside’s extra care scheme near Sunderland. To mark Intergenerational Week (March 8 to 14), the relationship continues to blossom between the Little Onions Club, which provides gardening activities and workshops to engage children and
Read moreNational Intergenerational Week – Riverside’s Health and Wellbeing service

Kelli Melloy manages Riverside’s National Health & Wellbeing service which supports our customers to age healthily, remain independent and maintain physical and mental wellness. Of all the activities our Health & Wellbeing Service organise in our Extra Care and Retirement Living schemes, intergenerational events are my favourite. Across the country we have developed links with
Read moreRough sleeping snapshot in England: Autumn 2020 – Riverside’s response

John Glenton reflects on the latest rough sleeper figures which show a reduction of 37% year on year. We have proven how well homelessness services can be funded and run during a national health emergency – now it is time to treat homelessness itself as a national health emergency. John Glenton, Executive Director of Care
Read moreHelp available to tenants to change careers after losing jobs during pandemic

Tenants who have lost their jobs through Covid-19 lockdown have been given the opportunity to retrain so they can get back into work. As unemployment continues to surge, the Ladders of Aspiration programme is providing hope to tenants who have lost their jobs or been furloughed during the pandemic. The programme is run by social
Read moreNew initiative helps entrenched rough sleepers in to their own home

A man who has spent six years living on the streets now has a place to call home thanks to new funding to convert much-needed properties in Liverpool. Peter, 40, intermittently slept rough for more than six years but has now moved into a one-bedroom terrace in the city. Under Next Steps Accommodation Programme (NSAP)
Read moreNational Apprenticeship Week 2021 – Maya’s success story

For National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we profile Maya Joseph who achieved her Level 4 Data Analyst Apprentice at Riverside. Why did you apply to be an apprentice? I’ve always enjoyed problem solving and using data to find solutions that can benefit people so I was excited when I found out that I could complete a
Read moreNational Apprenticeship Week 2021: Young customer joins Evolve on an apprenticeship through the support of Riverside’s Employment and Training service.

Riverside’s Employment and Training team help a young customer get an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator with their repairs and maintenance partners Evolve. Aidan Pitcher aged 18 from South Shields, Tyneside, was one of two young people to apply for the apprenticeship vacancy with Evolve. He previously had an apprenticeship with a local tiling
Read moreFamily evicted after causing two-year misery to neighbourhood

A family who terrorised a North Tyneside neighbourhood, making residents lives a misery over a two-year period have been evicted from their home. Tenant David Ellis, 57, and his two adult children were evicted after continually breaching their tenancy agreement with anti-social behaviour, criminal activity and carrying out threats towards neighbours who lived in fear.
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