News & Blog

Every April, rents change across the country. We set our rents using Government guidance and to calculate the increase, we use the September 2024 Consumer Price Index plus 1%.  This means that rents usually go up by slightly more than the rate of inflation.  This year, for most of Great Places’ Neighbourhoods and Independence and […]

We start this new year tying up some loose ends for our last scrutiny review which explored Employment and Skills support for customers. Firstly and most importantly, we would like to thank all customers who spoke with us about their experience of the support provided. Your feedback genuinely helped us understand more about the service […]

Announcing the organisations receiving funding from us this year… Back in September, we opened the call to bids for our next round of our Greater Together Resilience Fund. This year’s £100,000 fund, distributed on a commissioning bases to various organisations working in our regions, is focused on building Healthy Communities. Hopeful organisations had to clearly demonstrate and […]

Great Places just hosted an inspiring careers visit for Year 5 pupils from Manor Park Primary School, aiming to ignite their aspirations.

Great Places has provided £5,000 funding to an Accrington charity to help its customers access counselling services. The money has been given to Maundy Relief, based on Abbey Street, where it offers a range of services including: adult and young people’s mental health therapy including anger management, one-to-one counselling, group work and CBT wrap around […]

We are reviewing our Repairs Service after you told us that this was one of your priorities in our Corporate Priorities consultation last year. Before we do that, we want to understand what is most important to you. Your views are really important to us and we will use the information you share with us […]

A generous £800 donation brought early Christmas joy to the residents of Great Places supported living scheme in Bolton.

Great Places has been selected as one of the development partners for Peel Land’s Mosley Common project in Wigan. This transformational scheme, granted planning permission earlier this year, will see 1,044 new family and affordable homes created, alongside substantial investments in transport infrastructure, ecological enhancements and community facilities. Great Places in partnership with homebuilder Kellen […]

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