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Jeremy Corbyn meets veterans at supported housing service to mark Armed Forces Day
Veterans at a supported housing service in Teesside met with Jeremy Corbyn and shared their experiences of being homeless to mark Armed Forces Day. The Labour leader toured Hardwick House, a supported housing service run by housing association Riverside which has 20 self-contained apartments for ex-service personnel who are homeless or at risk of sleeping
Read moreRiverside calls for an end to the five week wait after survey shows two fifths of UC claimants are forced to use foodbanks
Survey finds that two-fifths of Riverside’s UC claimants (41%) have had to rely on help from food banks More than 80% said the wait for their first Universal Credit payment had caused them financial hardship Arrears for Riverside’s UC claimants are more than three and a half times higher than those who are not claiming – average arrears
Read moreEat Together: Benefits of social eating
Riverside’s Eat Together campaign is promoting the many benefits of social eating and to highlight this, John Glenton, Riverside’s Executive Director of Care and Support, shares his experiences of eating together and how it can have a positive effect on mental health and wellbeing and social inclusion. There are so many benefits from eating with
Read moreDementia is about making sense of their world
Ken Johnson, Riverside’s Care and Support Quality Officer, shares his experience of how he has learnt to live with his 89-year-old mum, Grace, who has dementia.
Read moreAn apprenticeship helped Karren find the perfect balance between learning and earning
I was at a cross road in my career and needed to do something very different. I had been a volunteer for Mungo’s – working with rough sleepers in Waterloo delivering cookery workshops for 12 months and decided to apply for a support worker post at King George’s. My first impressions of the scheme were
Read moreCelebrating Trans Day of Visibility
By Michael Gill, Care and Support Service Manager and Co-chair of our LGBT staff network At Riverside we truly champion diversity and inclusion. As Co-chair of Spectrum, the LGBT staff group I believe I have particular focus – to create the fairest and most welcoming environment for our LGBT colleagues from start to finish. That,
Read moreRiverside Sign Up to Homes for Cathy Commitments
Riverside are delighted to announce that ahead of the Homes for Cathy conference, we have signed up to the Homes for Cathy commitments. Homes for Cathy is a national group of housing associations working together to end homelessness. There are nine commitments around preventing and ending homelessness which members sign up to and these have
Read moreUnacceptable numbers of people sleeping rough in new figures
We are disappointed not to see a greater decrease in the number of rough sleepers in England as we are working so hard to tackle and prevent homelessness across the country. Although it is encouraging that the rate of increase has clearly slowed year on year. Everyone is moved to see people who sleep rough
Read moreUniversal Credit – putting the customer first
By Rachael Robinson, Universal Credit Manager We have joined forces with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to encourage landlords to support their customers as they transition to the full service of Universal Credit. While a lot of the responsibility in both applying for Universal Credit and managing their finances lies with the customers
Read moreInternational Volunteering Day 2018
At Riverside, our commitment is to create meaningful volunteer opportunities that benefit our customers, the communities where they live and the services we provide. On International Volunteering Day, our National Volunteering Manager, Lee Bailey, looks back at the way the service has developed over the last 12 months. In April, after months of working with
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