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Meet Jade – National Apprenticeship Week
It’s National Apprenticeship Week! Apprentices across Riverside are telling their own stories about how working with Riverside is transforming their lives. Today we meet Jade who is working with Evolve Facilities, part of Riverside Group delivering our repairs and maintenance service . “I started working for Evolve as an apprentice in Business Administration in February 2015. Before starting
Read moreLGBT through different eyes
Riverside is proud to say it welcomes employees from a wide range of backgrounds. Here two BME colleagues share their very different experiences of the LGBT community. By Kelvin O’Mard, Care and Support Area Manager Being born to parents who came to England from the Caribbean, where attitudes toward the LGBT community are politically
Read moreInternational Women’s Day: ‘Barriers only made me more determined to succeed’
Before she worked in housing, Riverside’s Leann Hearne blazed a trail in a man’s world. On International Women’s Day 2017, she offers a personal reflection ‘Be Bold for Change’ is this year’s theme for International Women’s Day, and Leann has certainly managed to be that over the last 30 years. Throughout her career, she’s overcome
Read moreInternational Day of Older Persons
International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
By Antoinette Turner, co-chair of Spectrum, Riverside’s lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) staff group
Read moreIntensive intervention case study
When Nat was referred to Riverside’s Intensive Intervention project via her housing officer, she had given up hope. Nat was victimised for years, living as male to female trans, but was too scared to report it. The final straw came when she was broken into and had death threats painted on her walls. She phoned
Read moreHousebuilding should be a key role in government’s plans
Carol Matthews, Riverside’s Chief Executive, looks at how building more affordable homes in the North will help retain talent and rebalance the economy. The government has rightly identified the lack of available and affordable good quality homes as potentially the biggest social policy challenge facing this country. I understand that the much-anticipated Housing White Paper will shortly
Read moreHealth and housing: Together we can change lives and help the NHS
As hundreds of health professionals gather in Liverpool for NHS Confed, Riverside’s Head of Health and Care, Boaz Elieli, reflects on ambitious plans we have to develop new models of care… How can housing solutions help tackle some of the key issues facing NHS providers? At a fringe session this morning, on a panel with
Read moreEvolve apprenticeship has given my life focus, says Charlie
As National Apprenticeship Week 2017 continues, Charlie Ralston explains why the chance to earn and learn is making such a difference to him. Charlie, aged 19, is an apprentice electrician at Evolve Facilities, which repairs and maintains our homes, and is part of the Riverside Group. “I chose to do an apprenticeship because after going
Read moreEnvironmental CSR – Public transport
Sue Powell, Head of Service Improvement recently decided to have a go commuting to work on public transport. Here is her story: I would probably describe myself as a half-hearted user of public transport, committed in theory to the concept of greener travel but sometimes the lure of the door to door car journey from
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