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The 14th annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, taking place across England from 8th February, will showcase the impact apprenticeships can have on communities, local businesses and regional economies and how they all benefit from investing into apprenticeships. Our Community Investment Team are committed to working with customers who are seeking to access employment, training, education and […]

Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower individuals and encourage organisations to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. This year, we are promoting the idea of “Own Your Privacy” by learning more about how to help protect your valuable data that is online. One simple thing you can do is to update your […]

A film featuring Bill Moss, a customer from our Openshaw Court scheme, was aired as part of a series of short films screened by HOME Manchester to coincide with LGBT History Month. The series “˜Real to Real – Personal Tales from the LGBT Community’ was shown on Thursday 25 February. The film “˜Lifesolation’ was produced […]

Most rents are changing from April 2021. Look out for your rent notification letter over the next few days. Get answers to your questions about rent changes. Rents will generally go up by 1.5% from April 2021 which works out at £1.38pw on a weekly rent of £92. We have set new rents based on government […]

Last year we launched our Community Resilience Fund, aimed at providing much needed financial support to charities, community groups and social enterprises to implement their COVID-19 recovery strategies to enable them to become more resilient to future economic setbacks. 13 community groups and charitable organisations have already received a share of the initial £100,000 fund. […]

Great Places Housing Group has issued the final £70m retained portion of its existing £345M bond due in 2042. Following a day of group and individual Investor presentations, the sale was priced at a spread of 120 bps and an all-in cost of 1.998 per cent. Great Places were supported by NatWest Markets, Savills and […]

A NEW £2.3million “˜age friendly’ development for the over-55s is to be built in Bolton. Great Places Housing Group will build 18 one-bedroom cottage-style apartments in Horace Street, Halliwell, as part of its extensive development plan across the north. The new development will replace the former St Joseph’s parish centre after planning permission was received. […]

Hong Kong-based developer Far East Consortium (FEC) has selected Great Places as one of three housing associations to help deliver the first 800 new affordable homes as part of its new 15,000-home Northern Gateway project in Manchester. Great Places Housing Group, The Guinness Partnership and Trafford Housing Trust, now owned by L&Q, have all been […]

Since our merger took place on 1 April with Equity Housing Group, we have been working to bring the two customer scrutiny groups from the legacy organisations together under the “˜Insight’ banner and we’re pleased to say this has now been achieved. The “˜Insight‘ group provides a real opportunity for customers to help shape our […]