News & Blog

Building on the previous success of our grants to organisations offering support to Great Places customers and the local community with the cost-of-living crisis, we are pleased to launch our Resilience Fund for 2023. £100k in grants will be available through this year’s Greater Together Foundation Resilience Fund. These will be distributed on a commissioning […]

Our joint venture, Forge New Homes has been granted planning permission for its fourth development in Sheffield City Region and completed the purchase of the site from Harworth Group plc. Its latest venture is at the heart of Harworth Group’s Olive Lane mixed-use development at Waverley, which aims to transform the area into a new […]

We continue to take our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments seriously, and our ESG Report for 2022/23 is now live. Published as part of our commitments to the Sustainability Reporting Standard for social housing providers, our latest annual update outlines how we’re doing as an organisation in relation to the standard’s 48 criteria, covering […]

Great Places has appointed Mike Gerrard as our new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) joining us in the new year. Mike is currently Chief Financial Officer at Onward Homes Limited and extensive experience in the not for profit and private sectors. Over the past 15 years he has held a number of senior finance roles in […]

Great Places Housing Group’s customers are among the thousands of customers set to benefit from government support to upgrade old, inefficient heat networks announced last week (Tuesday 26 September). The Housing Group’s heat network that serves 299 of its customers in the Richmond Park area of Sheffield, is one of the projects set to receive […]

Customers at Great Places’ Cornish Close scheme in Manchester are benefiting from an additional £32k worth of improvement works that will help make the scheme more accessible and allow vulnerable customers to remain in their homes for longer. The scheme is owned by Great Places with on-site support provided by our Partner Agency “Turning Point”, […]

New exhibition celebrates 10th anniversary of Gateways to Oldham PFI initiative The Mayor of Oldham, Councillor Zahid Chauhan, was one of the guests to attend an event hosted by Great Places and award-winning local history charity Manchester Histories at Gallery Oldham on 16 September to mark the launch of an exhibition to commemorate the tenth […]

Our dedicated Money Advice Team is on hand to provide a range of support and advice for customers who may be struggling with the rising cost of living, trying to navigate what benefits they may be entitled to, or just needing general budgeting advice. Cara Chisholm from the Team shares some of the recent stories […]

Regrettably, the planned merger between Great Places and MSV is no longer going ahead and the two organisations have ended discussions about coming together to form a new business. Matt Harrison will stay on as Chief Executive of Great Places, and Charlie Norman will remain at MSV. The joint statement from Tony Davison, Chair of […]