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A church that is helping some of the most vulnerable people in Blackburn has been financially backed by Great Places. The Christ Apostolic Church Mount Zion International on Johnston Street in Blackburn has been given £5,000 to help fund a free weekly tea and coffee morning, which includes sandwiches, to ensure people have a chance […]

Great Places Housing Group has donated £11,000 to a Blackburn project helping vulnerable women. The money from the social landlord has been used to fund the Billy Project’s Community Fridge Project, which helps provide food, healthy eating tips and budgeting advice to women who are at risk. The food initiative is based in Albert Street, […]

Great Places’ helps Merosworld Foundation secure £7,700 to combat knife crime Great Places’ Community Investment Team has helped a local knife crime charity secure £7,700 to support its work in tackling knife crime in Greater Manchester. With the support of Great Places’ the Merosworld Foundation a charity created by the family of schoolboy Rhamero West, […]

Great Places Affordable Development Team has completed its £2.3m development in Rotherham, its first fully completed scheme as part of its second Strategic Partnership agreement with Homes England. The 52-week project at Kilnhurst Rd in Rawmarsh has transformed the former derelict brownfield site into 20 homes for affordable rent. Delivered in partnership with Allert Building […]

Great Places submits plans for 144 affordable apartments in Stockport’s regeneration district Great Places has submitted plans to build 144 high-quality affordable homes in the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation Town Centre West regeneration area on a site called Chestergate. Our proposals for the £34 million development will be our second site in the regeneration area […]

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Manchester-based social enterprise, Youth Elements CIC, has recently celebrated the opening of its first youth hub at the  Cooperative building in our Northmoor Anchor Neighbourhood. Guests at event to mark the launch of its first One Drop Youth Stop in Longsight were given a flavour of some of activities that will be taking place at […]

James Grundy, MP for Leigh, has joined us on a visit to the site of our recently completed £9.8m development at North Leigh Park. Mr Grundy, and local Councillors joined our Executive Director of Growth, Helen Spencer and Countryside Partnerships’ Managing Director for the Manchester and Cheshire East region, Joe Turner for a tour of […]

Customers at Meadow Lodge, our specialist homeless supported housing project in Trafford, now have a new space to relax and socialise, thanks to the transformation of a former storage space into a communal lounge. Thanks to funding from Great Places’ residents’ well-being fund, the Meadow Lodge team has been able to convert a former storage […]