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02/06/2026
Kids Love Yoga – a growing club in Richmond Park
Our Community Investment Team are committed to building healthy communities in our neighbourhoods. This has seen a real shake up in Richmond Park, with Healthwatch Sheffield consulting with local residents to find out what provisions they’d most like to see, as well as hosting drop-in wellbeing events. One key theme that kept coming up was […]
27/05/2026
Article by: Great Places
The Bread and Butter Thing comes to The Welcome
The Bread and Butter Thing has relocated to The Welcome Café in Knutsford, bringing its service to even more local families.
26/05/2026
Work set to begin on 65 new affordable homes in Wigan
Work is set to begin on a new development of 65 affordable homes in Wigan, as Great Places and Stonebond move forward with plans for the Christopher Street site. Following planning approval, Great Places and Stonebond are preparing to start on site in the coming weeks, bringing a long-vacant brownfield site back into use. Located […]
Great Places Housing Group
Social purpose is at the heart of Great Places Housing Group. A not-for-profit organisation, Great Places owns over 26,000 affordable homes in more than 30 local authority areas across the North West and South Yorkshire. In 2024/25 Great Places delivered 726 new affordable homes and sold 196 homes for shared ownership. It invested over £230 million into building new homes as well as running a wide range of projects and initiatives to help our customers and their communities. It currently has over 2,300 homes on site.
