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Contacting us on Friday 19 January, 2018

We’re experiencing an unusually high number of calls to the Customer Service Centre this morning, Friday 19 January. To avoid a lengthy wait, if you have an enquiry that isn’t an emergency, you might be better calling us this afternoon. Don’t forget our phone lines are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Read moreEmergency shelter available to rough sleepers in freezing weather

Rough sleepers across the country can access emergency shelter in freezing weather this winter. Riverside Care and Support is offering places to stay so people sleeping on the streets have a place to go that’s warm and dry when temperatures plummet. Emergency shelter is available when what’s known as Severe Weather Emergency Provision (SWEP) comes
Read moreJoin us and be at the heart of what we do

We are still looking for tenants, residents and customers to help us shape the service you receive. We want you to tell us what you’re thinking and be the voice of your community. We recently held taster sessions for you to find out how to get involved but don’t worry if you missed them. Next, we are
Read moreRiverside volunteers are rebuilding lives

To mark International Volunteering Day on December 5 Lee Bailey, Riverside’s National Volunteering Manager for Riverside Care and Support, explains why helping others is so important and the volunteering schemes we have in place thanks to volunteers. I joined Riverside in August, and have worked in the housing and volunteer sectors for 20 years.
Read moreSilver status verifies Riverside’s commitment to armed forces community

Riverside has been awarded Silver status by the Ministry of Defence for supporting the armed forces community. The national housing association was one of 12 organisations that attended the Defence Employee Recognition Scheme presentation in Manchester on 23 November. Silver status recognises the commitment given by organisations for those who serve for their country, and
Read moreRemembrance Sunday: Challenges of those who serve the country

Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, Simon Ketteridge, Riverside Care and Support’s Director of Business Development, reflects on the challenges of those who serve the country. There are 2.8 million veterans in the UK and research has shown that working-age veterans are more likely to be economically inactive (neither in work nor seeking employment) and have physical
Read moreDreadlocks grown for dad get chopped off for charity

A former homeless man who grew dreadlocks for 25 years in memory of his dad has chopped them off to help people fight cancer. Graham Barrington Taylor’s father William passed away from lung cancer in 1992 and a shocked Graham stopped getting his hair cut. In the following years, his curly locks became dreadlocks –
Read moreStreet Buddies wins volunteer award by the Mayor of London!

A Riverside project that supports homeless people has won a prestigious award from London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Street Buddies scooped the Supporting and Inspiring accolade at the Team London Awards 2017. The annual ceremony took place last night (November 6) at City Hall, recognising volunteers and volunteering projects that do great things for the capital.
Read moreRiverside gives cautious welcome to Government’s proposed funding for supported housing

As a major provider of housing with care and support, Riverside has cautiously welcomed yesterday’s Ministerial statement (October 31), setting out proposals for a new funding system for supported housing. The 52,500-home housing association is pleased that the Government has moved a long way from its original plan to restrict housing benefit to Local Housing
Read moreRiverside reaction to Government announcement that LHA cap for supported and social housing to be scrapped

Riverside – one of the country’s leading providers of housing, care and support – today welcomed the Government’s decision to drop the LHA cap for all social housing. The not-for-profit, charitable housing association group has been a leading voice in a sector-wide campaign to halt plans to cap housing benefit to the Local Housing Allowance
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