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Impact Housing Association joins The Riverside Group

Carol Matthews Riverside Group CEO with Impact team Mark Costello Chair and Bryonie Shaw Interim Managing Director.

Impact Housing Association officially became a subsidiary of The Riverside Group on Monday 20 August 2018, following an overwhelmingly positive vote by the association’s shareholders on 4th June and subsequent completion of the legal processes required by the Regulator of Social Housing. The news was welcomed positively by the 120 employees at Impact, whose jobs

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Your 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

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Riverside’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

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Your 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

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Evolve 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

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Riverside joins national campaign to tackle domestic abuse

Riverside has signed up to a new national campaign to help it tackle domestic abuse in communities that they deliver services in. The Make a Stand campaign centres around a pledge which has been developed by the Chartered Institute of Housing in partnership with Women’s Aid and the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA). It consists

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Residents shape new homes and improvements in Lewisham

Consultation

Tenants are having their say on multi-million pound proposals to build new housing and improve existing homes in Lewisham. Riverside is looking to help tackle the capital’s housing shortage and improve properties for current tenants. Customers at Gillan Court, in Grove Park, have shared their views on proposals to build additional homes on the car

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National Apprenticeship Week: Tom’s story

Tom NAW2018

Meet Tom, 23, who works as an accounts payable assistant at Riverside in Liverpool. After leaving school he studied art and design at college and then didn’t know what he wanted to do next. He worked in a shop for a year and decided to do a business administration apprenticeship with a courier company. Tom

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National Apprenticeship Week 2018: Lee’s quick guide

Lee NAW2018

Meet Lee, 32, our professional development manager at Riverside. Lee is responsible for supporting you on your career and development journey. He works with our diverse and skilled colleagues and is looking to create more development opportunities for colleagues and our communities. If you want to get in touch and have a chat with Lee

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National Apprenticeship Week 2018: Eden’s story

Eden NAW2018

Meet Eden, 18, a customer service apprentice at the charity run Botcherby community centre in Carlisle. Our employment and training service which provides support to local people at the centre, helped her through the process and successfully secure the position when she was shortlisted by Carlisle College for this opportunity. Before starting work at the

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