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Impact and Riverside progress negotiations and consultation with tenants
Impact Housing Association and Riverside are finalising arrangements to consult with tenants, shareholders and other interested parties over proposals for the Cumbria-based landlord to join the Riverside Group. Tenants will be given advanced notice of a formal six week period of tenant consultation, likely to begin at the end of March. This will lead to
Read moreHow the sector can make a Big Change on homelessness
We simply cannot allow the rise in rough sleeping to carry on, writes Riverside’s Chief Executive Carol Matthews. With the recent cold snap, it just makes you think how dreadful it must be to spend a night on the streets and sadly, more people have to. Homelessness remains a massive problem for our country. Just walk down
Read moreYour Retirement Living
Get fit, get safe, get savvy – get together! Since its launch in May, thousands of Retirement Living customers up and down the country have benefited from our new Health and Wellbeing Service. It’s aimed at older customers and offers a range of themed, monthly activities to help you to remain independent and feel
Read moreYour new housing services go live
More housing officers are now working in neighbourhoods like yours after a major revamp of the way we provide services to you. They’re working more flexible hours so they can support you when it better suits you, as promised in the last edition of Your Riverside. It comes after we reorganised and made savings behind
Read moreConsultation on changing the way we serve customers
Changes to our frontline service mean customers will see us out and about in their neighbourhoods more than ever. And if they’re not around, there are plenty of other ways to access services online and over the phone. So we are consulting with customers and others about proposals to close the reception desk at offices
Read moreRiverside’s response to the Government’s consultation on housing costs for sheltered housing and extra care accommodation
Riverside is one of the largest charitable housing association groups in the country, owning and managing over 53,000 homes across England and Scotland. We are a significant provider of supported housing, delivering homes and services to over 10,000 customers across 872 schemes. Of these 223 schemes are sheltered housing and 15 are extra care. We
Read moreHomelessness: Funding for short-term supported housing must remain in the main welfare system – Riverside’s response to Government consultation
Riverside is one of the largest charitable housing association groups in the country, owning and managing over 53,000 homes across England and Scotland. We are a large provider of supported housing, delivering homes and services to over 10,000 customers across 872 services. We are England’s third largest provider of homelessness services. We welcome the Government’s
Read more“Now I can see how far I’ve come”
Four years ago, Ian James was reading mathematics at university and enjoying all the trappings of student life. But a car accident was set to change things forever. Struggling to cope and at risk of becoming homeless, Ian (25) found help at Cangle Foyer. “Within the space of a year, my life had changed beyond
Read moreEvolve in the Community – Climbing every mountain…
One of our Evolve plumbers took on the challenge of a lifetime; climbing Africa’s highest mountain to raise money for charity. Tim Jones, 32, was part of a team of 40 climbers taking part in the Mount Kilimanjaro challenge to raise money for the Steve Prescott Foundation, a charity that supports The Christie Hospital in
Read moreInternational Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Lyn Bowker, Equality and Diversity Manager Today is international Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). People across the globe have used 20 November to remember those who have died because of transphobia every year since 1998. The day remembers people who have been killed that year, by murder or suicide, as a result of their
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