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Health and wellbeing top of the list for Retirement Living

Riverside are continuing to improve services for Retirement Living tenants – putting health and wellbeing at the top of the agenda.

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National fraud initiative

As part of our duty to protect public money, Riverside takes part in the National Fraud Initiative data matching exercise along with other housing associations. Data matching involves comparing data with other housing associations to identify and prevent things like illegal sub-letting and benefit fraud. This is being done in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Riverside’s Privacy

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Helping young people

A project helping young people avoid losing their homes has delivered amazing results, saving Riverside almost £350,000 in tenancy turnover costs. In 2015/16, the Intensive Intervention team engaged with 147 people aged between 16 and 30 and referred many to money advice, affordable warmth and employment and training services as well as to external support services like mental health agencies. They

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Back to work support

Riverside’s employment and training team helped 624 people nationwide into work this year. With Punjabi her first language, and having recently relocated from India, Gurpreet had no idea how to apply for jobs in this country.  After being referred to Riverside, she secured a place on a four-day employability course we ran with Asda. Employment and Training Officer Radthika Kathrani said: “It was great to see her

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Garden competition open

Once again, Riverside is supporting this year’s Liverpool Garden Competition, which now includes Sefton. With many different categories to choose from, there’s no excuse for those who love their gardening not to enter. The categories are: best container garden best communal garden best community project garden best garden over 60s age group best garden under 60s age group best

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