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Kickstart your career in the housing sector with a free jobs fair this summer and discover a profession with a purpose. Housing 2024 at Manchester Central on June 26 will bring together the largest recruiters in the region and anyone looking for opportunities to join a long-term career in a sector that supports local communities. Open […]

Great Places has donated £2,000 to the Burnley FC in the Community Foodbank to help meet its ever-increasing demands. The foodbank is part of the Burnley Together Down Town facility based in Market Square, which helps hundreds of people across Burnley and Padiham each week. Also in the facility, is the Down Town café and […]

Great Places has given more than £4,500 to a mental health charity to help Blackburn customers to manage their money better before any issues escalate. Lancashire Mind will work with 50 people, on a one-to-one basis, in community settings with a Health Care Coordinator and 30 people will access four, one-hour group sessions to understand […]

The latest welfare benefits news and updates from our Money Matters Team. New Regulations for ‘Protected’ Mixed Aged Couples (MAC) Effective from 8 June 2024 New Regulations are coming into effect on 8 June 2024 for all ‘protected’ Mixed Aged Couples (MAC) to retain their ‘protection’ even if they claim Universal Credit (UC) after receiving […]

Happy 10th Birthday to Insight, our customer scrutiny group who’ve been looking and examining areas of service, since 2014. The group volunteer time to support scrutiny of services to make a difference for all customers, providing critical challenge of service performance and holding Great Places accountable. Last year, Insight scrutinised three areas of service which […]

When your expectations aren’t met, it can be frustrating.  We work hard to provide you with an excellent service. Sometimes, things may not go as planned. When services fall below our agreed standards, we do everything we can to put things right by being transparent, fair and appropriate and making sure we listen and learn.  […]

Great Places has appointed a new Chief Executive to replace Matt Harrison who is standing down after more than 10 years in the job and over 30 years with the organisation. Alison Dean, currently Deputy Chief Executive, has accepted the position and will take over from Matt on 1 July 2024. Alison joined Great Places […]

The Housing Ombudsman has launched a consultation for social housing landlords and is looking for feedback on its principles of good practice and proposed approach to delivering good practice. The overall aim of Good Practice is to drive improvements for social housing customers through learning from complaints. The new proposed approach is to encourage landlords […]

Work is progressing in preparation for submission of plans for Russell Road towards to the end of next month. Thanks to everyone who shared their views on our plans as part of the consultation. Following the consultation and further discussions with the planning team at Manchester City Council, we’ve been working with the project architects […]