News & Blog

Great Places and Stockport County Community Trust have provided another successful free half term holiday club at St Mary’s Primary School in Stockport.

Chatty Café are a not-for-profit organisation that tackles loneliness and social isolation across the UK, and we've been working with them to address this issue in our communities.

Great Places has teamed up with Premier League side Burnley and UK Youth to help vulnerable young people in to work via the Hatch programme. Hatch is an employability programme, run in partnership with KFC, which provides workshops and paid work experience placements for young people aged 16-25 who are not in education employment or […]

Great Places’ Crossley Community Centre in Oldham has recently received funding from award-winning environmental organisation Hubbub to set up a Community Fridge. A site where local people can share food, including surplus from supermarkets, local food businesses, producers, households and gardens, a Community Fridge helps prevent food waste. The Fridge locations also create a space […]

A Burnley organisation which helps disadvantaged communities and vulnerable people in one of the country’s most deprived wards has been given a helping hand by Great Places Housing Group. Ehabits, based on Abel Street, has been given £10,000 from Great Places’ Financial Resilience Fund to support and empower disadvantaged communities in the Danehouse and Stoneyholme […]

Shadow Minister for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Paula Barker MP visited Great Places Housing Group head office to talk about the Greater Manchester Housing First partnership and the approach to delivering Housing First across the region.    The Liverpool Wavertree MP met with Programme Lead Emily Cole, Great Places CEO Matt Harrison, Salford City Mayor […]

Great Places is urging customers to be aware of the potential dangers posed by lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters, following a rise in the number of related incidents in Greater Manchester.

Great Places has donated £3,500 to a Bolton-based project that serves as a hub for struggling families to buy school essentials for their children without breaking the bank. The community shop offers reduced or free school supplies, items sold include most of what children need at school, including uniforms, shoes, coats, trainers, PE kits, maths […]

The Young Creatives is a group of three young artists – Katie, Laura and Millie – working with Great Places Housing Group and Manchester Histories to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Gateways to Oldham PFI project. They are exploring the history of the local area and, along with a historian, are recording residents’ memories […]