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Arts, Sports, and Carer Support Young people in Knutsford would like to see more provision for youth activities and support for young carers according to the findings of a survey organised by our Community Investment Team. The survey of young people between 5 and 19 ran earlier this year in collaboration with Knutsford Town Council […]

Great Places donated £6,000 to Rochdale-based charity Become United through our Greater Together Foundation. Become United is a charity, led by Black Minority Ethnic (BME) people. Their advisory team members have a broad range of skills, experience, and knowledge, which they have gained from working with the South Asian and BME communities across Greater Manchester […]

As part of her regional tours, our new CEO Alison Dean and Chief Financial Officer Mike Gerrard visited our Park Hill Office and met our colleagues and customers around our neighbourhoods and schemes, getting a deeper sense of the key projects, issues and priorities in the region.

Our joint venture company Forge New Homes, has completed the purchase of a seven-acre greenfield site from Wildgoose Homes Limited. The deal enables Forge to acquire the site in Beckingham, an attractive commuter village on the Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire border. Having worked on the site prior to its acquisition, Forge New Homes has already secured planning permission, […]

On the latest leg of her regional tour, our new CEO, Alison Dean, visited colleagues and customers in Preston, Leyland and Blackburn, accompanied by Chief Financial Officer Mike Gerrard. The tour was expertly hosted by colleagues Fee, Julie, Jeff, Nosh, Jake and Suzi, and took in a wide range of our homes and communities, shining […]

We will soon be writing our new Customer Voice Strategy, this is the document that sets out how customers will have a strong voice in the design, delivery, and scrutiny of the services Great Places offer. It is important to us that we continue to listen to the views of our customers and so we’d […]

How one organisation we’re supporting is thriving in its delivery of language lessons across Sheffield.

In Ordsall, our Neighbourhood team celebrated a significant achievement by assisting one of our customers to transform his living conditions.

Great Places has submitted plans for its ‘first of a kind’ purpose-built majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care housing scheme in Whalley Range, south Manchester. Our Affordable Development Team has submitted proposals planned for the site of the former Spire Hospital on Russell Road, Whalley Range, which was demolished in 2019. The brownfield site has since remained […]