Health and Wellbeing Highlights…  The last few months have seen more and more tenants accessing our health and wellbeing service and a range of interesting and intriguing activities taking place in Retirement Living schemes across the country. Some highlights include: Dogs Trust – Pet Therapy October saw the Pet Therapy dogs visiting schemes nationally delivering

Following the recent allocation of the Government’s Life Chances Fund to tackle social issues, Ali Clintworth, Riverside’s Impact Fund Manager, highlights how organisations can apply for Riverside’s £1m investment fund to run new services to prevent homelessness. The Government recently announced details about the 22 projects who will benefit from the £48 million The Life

Fran Stulberg, Chair of Riverside’s disability staff group Enable, encourages people to ‘ask twice’ on World Mental Health Day.

To celebrate Get Online Week Andrew Cave, Project Officer looking after Riverside’s Digital Inclusion roll out, gives an insight into what we are doing so our customers’ in Care and Support can become digital savvy.   In the technical age of having all kinds of information at your fingertips, it’s surprising to learn that more

Riverside’s John Glenton has been elected Chair of the National Housing Federation’s newly formed Homelessness Steering Group. The Group aims to bring housing associations together to share best practice and lobby the Government to help end homelessness.   Mr Glenton, Riverside’s Executive Director for Care and Support, said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be elected Chair

Residents on a Newcastle estate had the chance to get rid of unwanted items free of charge when an autumn clean-up day was held to make a difference in the community. Local housing association Riverside teamed up with contractors Evolve and Building Futures East (BFE) to give tenants in the Church Walk estate a helping

By Mark Cook, Care and Support Area Manager Pride in Hull is an annual event, aiming to offer a platform to Hull and East Yorkshire’s LGBT community and to raise awareness of LGBT issues. It’s always a special event, but this year it’s even more so as Hull hosts the first ever national UK Pride,

On Friday 8th September, a fault with the Allpay payment service meant that duplicate payments were taken from some customers’ bank accounts. This was a system-wide fault with Allpay and has affected other housing providers and organisations who also use this payment service. This incident affects customers who have signed up to direct debit and