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Great Places’ Crossley Community Centre in Oldham has recently received funding from award-winning environmental organisation Hubbub to set up a Community Fridge. A site where local people can share food, including surplus from supermarkets, local food businesses, producers, households and gardens, a Community Fridge helps prevent food waste. The Fridge locations also create a space […]

A Burnley organisation which helps disadvantaged communities and vulnerable people in one of the country’s most deprived wards has been given a helping hand by Great Places Housing Group. Ehabits, based on Abel Street, has been given £10,000 from Great Places’ Financial Resilience Fund to support and empower disadvantaged communities in the Danehouse and Stoneyholme […]

Shadow Minister for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Paula Barker MP visited Great Places Housing Group head office to talk about the Greater Manchester Housing First partnership and the approach to delivering Housing First across the region.    The Liverpool Wavertree MP met with Programme Lead Emily Cole, Great Places CEO Matt Harrison, Salford City Mayor […]

Great Places is urging customers to be aware of the potential dangers posed by lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters, following a rise in the number of related incidents in Greater Manchester.

Great Places has donated £3,500 to a Bolton-based project that serves as a hub for struggling families to buy school essentials for their children without breaking the bank. The community shop offers reduced or free school supplies, items sold include most of what children need at school, including uniforms, shoes, coats, trainers, PE kits, maths […]

The Young Creatives is a group of three young artists – Katie, Laura and Millie – working with Great Places Housing Group and Manchester Histories to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Gateways to Oldham PFI project. They are exploring the history of the local area and, along with a historian, are recording residents’ memories […]

On Friday, 19 May, Great Places hosted the Greater Manchester Regional Hoarding Conference, organised by the local group Hoarders Helping Hoarders (HHH). The conference that took place at the West Didsbury Head Office, was part of National Hoarding Awareness Week which aims to combat the stigma associated with hoarding. The event was attended by organisations […]

Great Places is supporting National Hoarding Awareness Week by hosting the Greater Manchester Regional Hoarding Conference 2023.

Hive Homes, our profit for purpose joint venture has won the Newcomer of the Year category at this year’s prestigious RESI Awards. The joint venture with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and nine other ten of Manchester’s leading Housing Associations, including Great Places and MSV, fought off stiff competition to win the award, announced at […]