16/06/2020
Great news! Our customers in Holts and surrounding areas are set to benefit from an enhanced affordable food service, now we’ve started supporting The Bread and Butter Thing hub at ROC ‘n’ Rolls Holts Community Café.
The Holts hub means more of our customers can access the TBBT service, which pro...
15/06/2020
New roofs and windows for 500 of our homes; refurbishing tower blocks; and installing fire safety measures are among some of the areas we will be investing in over the next 12 months, we’re pleased to announce.
Continually improving our customers’ homes to make sure we provide high quality, safe...
15/06/2020
Thanks to all our customers for bearing with us while we had to postpone our grass cutting service due to coronavirus - we know that some of our areas looked a bit overgrown and unloved.
Our Grounds Maintenance team has been working hard for the last three and a half weeks in all our neighbourhoo...
12/06/2020
A generous donation of plants and pots means a community garden in Littlemoor, Oldham is blooming again, just days after it was targeted by heartless thieves.
Cordylines in glazed pots, and containers of lobelia and bedding plants were among the items stolen from the garden, which green fingered...
11/06/2020
Our plans to build 38 new homes for affordable rent in Alt were unanimously approved by Oldham Council's Planning Committee members at their meeting on 3 June.The £6 million development on a brownfield site off Cherry Avenue, Alt will comprise of ten two bedroom and 28 three bedroom family homes,...
10/06/2020
Our Directions team is still here for you and are offering online training sessions. The sessions available this month are below.
How does it work?
You will need a device that connects to the internet and ideally you would have a camera so you can fully join in, but this isn’t essential and yo...
08/06/2020
We’ve recently joined other housing associations across Greater Manchester (GM) in signing the GM Care Leavers Covenant Pledge.
The pledge focuses on three themes:
Offering choice to young people
Often, social housing organisations are the first landlord care leavers experience when they leave...
04/06/2020
Kay Powell, Repairs Planner in Property Care, usually spends her days working with the team on our Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) programme. But when lockdown was enforced, she answered the call for volunteers to help support the local Covid-19 response and became a personal shop...
03/06/2020
“I had an incredible time at First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) on placement and my experience will undoubtedly help me with my career. Thank you to the Neighbourhoods Team that helped me.” says customer Simon Duffy who volunteered with us to get back on the road to employment. Now he’s on track fo...
02/06/2020
Coronavirus hasn’t stopped our Community Impact Advisor Annarosa from improving lives in Oldham as she’s recently helped one of our customers erase nearly £3,000 worth of debt!
Our customer, who is a single parent originally from Zimbabwe, now lives in Oldham with her two children. She works as a...