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Riverside volunteers step up to tackle COVID-19

Grace Connor, who works with Riverside’s Business Development team covering the Midlands and South West, immediately stepped up to make calls from her home in Northamptonshire. Riverside contacted 7,500 customers, including 99.5% of Retirement Living residents aged over 55, with Grace making contact herself with more than 250 people.

More than 210 frontline and back office colleagues have stepped up to volunteer to provide extra support for Riverside’s customers to combat the impact of COVID-19. Riverside has developed its Volunteer Support Scheme to assist its frontline teams to respond to the threat of COVID-19, with a focus on additional help for vulnerable customers such

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Sisters first Christmas together in nearly 70 years

Riverside...Sisters living together at Riverside's Ivy Court St. Helens. From left. Jean Cook, age88 Irene O'Donnell age86 and Annie Walker age 83.

This festive season is a magical time for three sisters in St Helens who will be spending their first Christmas under one roof after nearly 70 years!   It’s been a while since sisters Jean Cook, Irene O’Donnell and Annie Walker have lived together – 67 years in fact when Jean moved out of the

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Riverside supports Merseyside-based LGBT football team

Colleagues from our in-house repairs team Evolve played a friendly match against a Merseyside-based LGBT football team last Sunday (4 August), showing our ongoing commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. We played our first football match as part of our corporate sponsorship of the Mersey Marauders inclusive football team. As a Stonewall Diversity Champion, this

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Meet the Chair of our BAME staff group

During Black History Month, Housing Manager Allison Cuddy talks about her role as Chair of Origin, Riverside’s BAME (Black Asian and Minority Ethnic) staff group. I started working for a housing association in 1998 through a positive action training initiative in Liverpool. My first role was as a trainee finance assistant. The project targeted the

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Do you want to be part of positively changing people’s lives? Housing First Worker may be the role for you.

Every rough sleeper has a unique set of life experiences and support needs. Within Guildford, we are ensuring our support services are appropriate, timely and accessible alongside our housing being suitable, affordable and available. To do this, Guildford Borough Council (GBC) have been developing new and existing services, including the Indigo service (Mental health support),

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Riverside breaks new ground with sector first £100m SONIA revolving loan facility

The Riverside Group Limited (Riverside) has completed what is thought to be the housing sector’s first loan facility using the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) interest benchmark. The deal, which sees the restatement of Riverside’s existing facility with Lloyds Banking Group, includes a £100m revolving credit facility indexed exclusively on a SONIA basis. It is

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Number Five night shelter becomes Guildford’s new rough sleeper Hub

Riverside takes over the No5 Project in Guildford on 1 April 2020.

Number Five night shelter in York Road is modernising and enhancing its service so rough sleepers can get the help they need to turn their lives around. The night shelter has been a much valued resource in Guildford for 30 years, fully supported by churches, local organisations and the community at large. However, over the

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