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We granted Athelstan Primary School in Richmond Park, Sheffield, £4,000 to go towards the purchasing of online learning tools, used by Pupil Premium children in their popular Breakfast Club. Over six months, this has had a significant impact on pupils' learning and engagement.

We work extensively with Greater Manchester Housing First and the Rough Sleepers Accommodation Programme (RSAP) to help tackle homelessness and rough sleeping across our regions, and to support our customers into permanent accommodation. Today is World Homeless Day, and our Independence and Wellbeing Teams have marked the day by hosting sessions with colleagues and customers to increase understanding around the issue and to provide assistance to customers seeking support.

Great Places Housing Group has submitted plans for 43 new affordable homes on a site off Belford Drive in Great Lever, Bolton. Our planned £11 million development will consist of six one-bed and four two-bed cottage style apartments, nine two-bed houses,12 three-bed and 12 four- bed houses, all available for affordable rent and designed by […]

Great Places recently hosted the MP for Stalybridge & Hyde and local councillors on a visit to its recently completed £2.5 million specialist housing development in Stalybridge. Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP, councillors and council officials joined our Chief Executive, Alison Dean and members of the project team on a tour of the development in […]

Great Places Housing Group has helped a Burnley social enterprise gain £180,000 in National Lottery funding to help people in two of the town’s most deprived wards. Enterprising Habits, based on Abel Street, will use the money to help 150 people who are either economically inactive, unemployed or people in low paid jobs over the […]

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

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 accommodation, a community café and now a community gym to […]

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 Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) to 33 heat networks across England and […]

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 […]