News & Blog

Introducing Multiply Adult Numeracy Programme, a ground-breaking initiative designed to improve numeracy skills across the UK.

Great Places helps Colne social enterprise create £343,000 community gym High Sherriff of Lancashire Helen Bingley OBE helped to officially open a new £343,000 community gym in Colne – thanks to a little help from Great Places. Elisha House, on Burnley Road in Colne, helps people with a history of substance misuse and features supported […]

Funding to look at improvements to the John Atkinson Court heat network Great Places has been fully funded to carry out an optimisation study to review the performance of its heat network at our independent living scheme at John Atkinson Court in Salford as part of the sixth round of funding awarded under the Government’s […]

In Partnership with InCommon we were delighted to run our first ever intergenerational workshop in Manchester last month as part of the Empower programme. Children from Prospect House Primary Specialist Support School visited their neighbours at our Extra Care scheme, The Byrons (just a one-minute walk away!). The children and residents will be meeting on […]

This International Day of Older People, we are celebrating the positive impact that our older customers have on our schemes and communities. Moving into an Independent Living scheme is just another chapter to help you live your life as freely as anyone else with a helping hand should you need it. Your front door is […]

Great Places and Citu launch shared ownership for low-carbon family homes at Kelham Island, Sheffield Great Places has partnered with Yorkshire based property developer Citu to deliver 16 new, zero-carbon homes for shared ownership in Kelham Central, located in Sheffield’s Kelham Island neighbourhood. The new homes, part funded by Homes England, are a mix of […]

Plans approved for UK’s ‘first of a kind’ majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care scheme Plans have been approved for the UK’s ‘first of a kind’ purpose-built majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care social rent housing scheme in Whalley Range, south Manchester. Our proposals for the site of the former Spire Hospital on Russell Road, Whalley Range were approved […]

We know how important it is for our customers to be able to contact us easily in a range of ways and to do this its important we have the right technology to make this possible. Over the next few weeks, we are moving our Customer Hub onto some new systems that will in the […]

Insight has just finished a scrutiny that looked at customers’ experience of a moving into a Great Places home. Customer feedback about the lettings process and new homes was used to find out whether customers had been satisfied and what things mattered most to them about this service. All the scrutiny information collected helped Insight […]