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#SongsforSmiles at Newbury House

Colette Cronshaw, Riverside Project Assistant, shows how positive activities at our supported housing services such as Newbury House in Manchester are helping customers stay safe and well during the pandemic and help prevent social isolation during the lockdown. I received an invite to join the GMHAN Donation Distribution Panel (catchy eh!). It would enable me

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Riverside launches new volunteer Buddies service to support customers

Grace Connor

Riverside has launched a new initiative coinciding with national Volunteers’ Week for colleagues to offer bespoke volunteering support services to further engage with vulnerable customers across the country. The new Scheme Buddy service offers additional support for Riverside’s frontline teams across its communities who are facing up to the challenges and additional pressures presented by

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Anton volunteers to work on the frontline in ICU with coronavirus patients

Anton Newcombe from Mike Jackson House volunteered to work in the ICU ward with coronavirus patients at his local hospital.

Camaraderie shown in communities across the country during the Covid-19 outbreak has been tremendous, and one Riverside resident is no exception as he has put himself on the frontline to work in dangerous circumstances. When the pandemic took hold in this country earlier this year, Anton Newcombe wanted to do something worthwhile to support his

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Friends of Duffield supports Riverside customers to self-isolate in Derby

Riverside customer Sharmaine with her new TV at Centenary House which has been donated by the Friends of Duffield Homeless Group to help them self-isolate.

Customers at Riverside’s supported service for people affected by homelessness in Derby are being helped to manage their social distancing with the donation of eight TVs from a local church group. Centenary House in Derby city centre offers supported accommodation to people with complex needs and addictions, as well as those customers accessing Riverside’s further

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Riverside joins partners to set out principles preventing people returning to the streets after COVID pandemic

Riverside has put their name to a letter signed by housing providers, homelessness organisations and sector leaders sent to Dame Louise Casey, who will be spearheading the Government’s taskforce into rough sleeping during the COVID pandemic. The letter commends the government for leadership shown in the first phase of the pandemic to bring rough sleepers

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Neston High School support our Powerhouse team with crucial PPE

Staff at a school in Cheshire have been supporting our frontline teams by making and assembling face visors. James Burns, acting Service Delivery Manager at the Powerhouse, manages the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment to our frontline teams in his region. After noticing a short supply of face visors, a colleague suggested he get in

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VE DAY at Mike Jackson House

Residents and staff at Mike Jackson House, our homeless veterans’ accommodation in Aldershot, Hampshire organised a day of activities to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe. Jane McClintock MBE, Service Manager at Mike Jackson House, gives an account on how they commemorated the day while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.  On Friday,

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Paul pens commemorative poem to mark 75th anniversary of VE Day

Paul Chadwick from The Beacon in North Yorkshire.

To mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), Paul Chadwick, 62, gives an insight into his military career and discovering his love of writing. The talented poet has written a commemorate VE Day poem called Victory in Europe; The Beacon Remembers. Paul is from The Beacon, our homeless Veterans accommodation in

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Supported services in Surrey adapt to continue to operate during lockdown

Donations given to Vaughan House during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Riverside’s Ketan Patel, Surrey’s Regional Operations Manager, gives an insight into how we’re helping people who are homeless and keeping them safe during the coronavirus pandemic. The national housing association runs a number of homeless supported housing services in Surrey including Vaughan House and the Number Five Hub in Guildford, and Mike Jackson House, our

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