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A Blackpool community garden is blooming thanks to some green-fingered customers and a little help from Great Places.

When Victoria lost her partner, her life spiralled out of control. But when she entered Blackburn's InPartnership Project (IPP), a couple of years ago, things began to change.

Six months into the Pat Midgley Community Hub Foundation running as an independent organisation, it's thriving under local management.

Customers at Meadow Heights in Ramsbottom, Bury, are enjoying newly refreshed communal areas following a five-week programme of improvement works to internal hallways and shared spaces across two leasehold-managed blocks.  The scheme, which covers 15 homes, included internal decoration and replacement flooring, delivered as part of Plumlife Management’s lease obligation to carry out communal cyclical […]

Our Employability Programme, Wybourn Works, has funded the mobile youth club, 'Always an Alternative' to set up each week in Wybourn.

Great Places and Northstone are celebrating the completion of their first two developments delivered in partnership – Breacla in Lancaster and Abri in Wigan. The schemes mark an important milestone in our collaboration focused on delivering high-quality, affordable and sustainable homes that meet the needs of local communities. At Breacla, on Scotforth Road in Lancaster, […]

We want our services to work for you, and that starts with understanding your needs and what matters most to you.

For more than ten years, Paul, a Great Places customer from Primrose Bank, has been at the heart of the Primrose Centre. Since becoming a volunteer in 2015, Paul has supported the centre every single day – opening up first thing in the morning, setting up and clearing away for groups, keeping the building clean […]

Allpay has launched a new all-in-one payment app and web portal designed to make managing your payments easier than ever. Here’s what you’ll find in the new allpayments: 📱📱 Easy navigation 🔁🔁 Quick repeat payments with ‘Pay again’ 🔔🔔 Real-time push notifications 🧾🧾 View and download payment receipts 🔐🔐 Secure login with Face ID (app […]