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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
Read moreRiverside’s homeless veterans campaign scoops prestigious Northern Marketing Award
Riverside’s Corporate Marketing team picked up the award for Best Not-For-Profit Campaign at the annual Northern Marketing Awards last night. More than 400 people attended the event in Manchester to celebrate and reward marketing excellence in the region. The award was for the Hardwick House digital marketing campaign, which used targeted Facebook and Twitter adverts
Read moreExtreme 400km charity bike ride from Leicester to Carlisle in two days!
A cycling duo took on an extreme Tour de France-style cycling challenge to help people fight cancer. David Taylor and Simon Allcock cycled over 400km (255 miles) from Leicester to Carlisle in two days, staying overnight in Liverpool, to raise money for Cancer Research UK. It is the longest ride they have ever embarked on,
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