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Paying your rent by Direct Debit six months, a £10 Love to Shop is the easiest way for you pay. voucher. It’s fast, it’s secure and now it To switch to Direct Debit, simply can even earn you an extra £10! phone us on 0300 373 3000 and Welcome We’re offering everyone who our Customer Service Team will set Welcome to the new look Neighbourhood Life and our new switches to Direct Debit and it up for you over the phone. Network Homes branding. maintains payments for the first The first half of 2016 has been a time of major change. At the end of April, we completed the process of bringing together Network Homes’ new the different housing associations within Network Housing Group (Network Stadium, Riversmead, Community Trust Housing buildings win awards and London Strategic Housing) to become a single, charitable Three of our newer developments housing association called Network Homes. have been named among the best in the industry.

Simplifying our organisational An update on our Board The current Chair of Network At the Evening Standard New “These awards really structure means that we are Homes, Andy Watson, will be Homes Awards in May, Lime Walk showcase the diversity I am also delighted to announce able to work more efficiently and retiring after seven successful in Park was named of the work we do at that we have appointed a new effectively, providing you with a years in the role. ‘Best Affordable Development’, Network Homes.” Chair of the Network Homes Board, better service. We intend to make The Junction in Stockwell was Bernadette Conroy. She will be Andy has played an enormous Network Homes one of the best Highly Commended for ‘Best taking over from our current Chair, part in the progress that Network performing housing associations in First Time Buyer Home’ and Andy Watson on 28 July. Homes has made London and the Home Counties. Stockwell Park was named ‘Best over the last seven Bernadette brings Regeneration Project’. Group Panel years and we are with her over 20 Stockwell Park has transformed We have made great strides in grateful for the Vicky Savage, Executive Director years of experience over the last 10 years. The £200m ensuring that our decision-making input and guidance of Development, said: “These working in senior regeneration project is due to structure remains strong and clear. that he has offered awards really showcase roles in both the be complete in 2018/19, and is over that time. the diversity of the work we In May I was pleased to see the public and private delivering 638 new homes and do at Network Homes. In first meeting of the Group Panel. sectors. We went 571 refurbished homes. every development project The residents participating in the through a rigorous process to make Lime Walk is just five minutes from we undertake, whether for Group Panel will play a key role sure we found the right person to Station and built regeneration or new build, we take in the way that we run Network become the new Chair of Network on the site of a former car park. enormous care with our designs Homes, as they feed information Homes. It was clear to us that It is made up of 111 homes of and keep people at the very centre from our local panels through to Bernadette’s track record, values different tenures including shared of what we do. the Board. I’m looking forward very and ambitions are a great fit for ownership, shared equity, private much to working with them. Network Homes and that she is the Helen Evans “From supporting strong local sale and affordable rent. right person for the job. Chief Executive communities to thrive, to building The Junction in Stockwell includes new homes that meet a variety Audio, Braille, large print and translation services 52 one and two bed apartments of needs, we firmly believe that We can provide any section of this document to you on audio tape, CD, in Braille or in large print. We can also for outright sale and five providing good homes opens up translate this document into other languages. If you require these services please contact Customer Services 1 bed apartments for shared new possibilities for people to on 0300 373 3000. ownership sale. meet their aspirations in life.”

2 www.networkhomes.org.uk 3 Neighbourhood Life Summer 2016 Your Community Your Community Good homes make everything possible Hertfordshire residents celebrate Tackling youth Queen’s birthday in style homelessness in Hackney As 2016 is the year of HRH Queen If you are interested in joining We’re pleased to announce that and individuals will be able to live Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday, our one of the Residents’ Associations we’ve entered an agreement with in the properties for a maximum of Hertfordshire residents have been or you would like to find out more youth homelessness charity New 12 months. taking the opportunity to throw a about setting up a Residents’ Horizon to provide temporary party. And we were only too happy Associations in your area, email us on During their stay, New Horizon accommodation in Homerton, to help out! [email protected] will provide each young person Hackney, for the next three years. with a variety of support, On Saturday 11 June, Tower Road We will be renting out eight including life skills and access to accommodation at the end of the Residents’ Association in Ware brought en-suite rooms in shared employment training. They will be 12 month period, allowing the around 300 people together to mark accommodation to New Horizon, expected to move into permanent rooms to be offered to new people. the occasion with an afternoon tea, hog roast, children’s entertainer, pony rides, live swing band and face painting. On Sunday 12 June, the residents of Sevenacres, Tewin came together with food, music, face painting New homes offer fresh and a bouncy castle. start for Syrian refugees We’re proud to be supporting St to provide the families with the Albans District Council in their support they need to begin their efforts to provide Syrian refugee new lives in the UK. families with a fresh start. We are providing two homes to St Albans District Council is two families. working with the Refugee Council

London schools visit Churchill’s bunker Did you know that we own a secret Only one War Cabinet meeting World War Two bunker in Dollis was held there during the war as Hill? Codenamed ‘’, the Churchill felt that the conditions bunker was built in 1940 as an inside the bunker weren’t suitable. alternative to the Cabinet War In June two London primary schools, Rooms at Whitehall. Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School and Pardes House Primary School, took the opportunity to visit. They were joined on their Britannica. The next open day will tours by a very special guest – be in September and we will be Winston Churchill’s lookalike! taking bookings from August. We open the site to tours twice To book, go to our website – a year and the tours are run by www.networkhomes.org.uk/ volunteer members of Subterranea Paddock

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Winners at Tower Thinking about downsizing? We can help! School bring the jungle If you’re living in a home with each spare bedroom after that. bedrooms that you no longer need, We will also help you with the moving to a smaller home could removal cost and the cost of buying to Cozens Road, Ware be just the thing. And we can help. curtains and carpets. For each bedroom that you no A group of children from Tower Alan Camp Architects (ACA), Officer in Hertfordshire, said: If you’re thinking about moving longer need, we will offer you a to a smaller home, please contact School in Ware, Hertfordshire, organised the event and helped “We are absolutely delighted for financial reward when you move us on 0300 373 3000 or at www. have turned our Cozens Road the school children to bring out the children and for the school. out. We’ll offer you £1,000 for the networkhomes.org.uk/contact-us development site into a colourful their wild side with the jungle This is a brilliant competition first spare bedroom and £500 for jungle and scooped a prize at the themed hoardings. and a great opportunity to bring same time! some colourful creativity to Pupils were asked to produce the hoardings. The results look The children were taking part pictures of animals and jungles, Safeguarding: we take it seriously fantastic and if you’re in the area, in the nationwide Ivor Goodsite and ACA and Bugler transformed We have recently updated our about a neighbour’s safety. For more information, I’d recommend stopping by to safeguarding policy following visit our website – Hoarding Competition which them into a montage to be Every member of our staff will take a look!” recent changes in legislation. www.networkhomes.org.uk/ encourages local communities, projected and traced onto the receive training in safeguarding, safeguarding supported by the site developers, hoarding. Our Cozens Road development The changes to our policy mean so that you can report an issue or to help design and decorate will bring 34 new one or two Tower School is local to our that it is now easier for you to report concern to any one of them. development site hoardings. And bed homes for affordable rent any concerns that you might have development and Simon Camp their efforts were rewarded with to Ware. The development is due from Alan Camp Architects is a second prize. to complete towards the end parent governor. of 2016. Welfare Advisors claim extra Bugler, our development Steven Rothwell, Neighbourhood contractor at Cozens Road, and £800,000 for residents Pay your Claiming benefits can often be Welfare Advisor Paul Wallis, said: a daunting task. That’s why our “Claiming the support that rent online Welfare Advisors are on hand they’re entitled to can make a Network Homes has launched to help guide you through the huge difference to the lives of our a new online Self Service Portal, process. residents. I’m so pleased that we’ve where you can pay your rent, been able to help so many people.” Over the last year, our Advisors have check your statements going helped our customers to claim an If you would like to speak to a back up to six years, request extra £800,000 in benefits. Welfare Advisor, please phone us a repair to your home, log on 0300 373 3000. a communal repair in your building, and monitor the Worksmart progress of your repairs. The portal is simple to Are you out of work or wanting to The free programme is tailored understand, easy to use, and increase the hours that you work? to your needs and starts with a will take a fraction of the time Our Worksmart programme could one-to-one meeting to help us currently spent making a be just the ticket! find out more about you. After payment either on the phone that, we’ll agree a programme and If you’re a Network Homes resident or at your local Post Office. A a pathway to get you started on and you’d like help with preparing user guide is also available on your journey into work. a CV, practising your interview our website. technique, filling in applications, Your Neighbourhood Officer will be basic computer skills, job matching nominating people but you can also Visit www.networkhomes. and lots of other tips, support and refer yourself onto this programme. org.uk/living-in-your-home/ advice to help you get physically self-service-portal/ for more To register your interest email and mentally in the work zone, information. [email protected] Worksmart is for you.

6 www.networkhomes.org.uk 7 Neighbourhood Life Summer 2016 Supporting you Supporting you Good homes make everything possible Home contents insurance: Make sure the sizzle stays are you covered? in your sausages this summer

We’re offering a new, affordable Contents insurance can also cover home contents insurance scheme the replacement of external locks to all our customers. if your keys are lost or stolen, and even the contents of your freezer! While we hope that nothing will happen to our belongings, We’re pleased to recommend sometimes things can go wrong the My Home Contents Insurance, unexpectedly. which is provided by Thistle Insurance and offers a range Home contents insurance will of cover. cover any damage or loss caused to your household goods and My Home Contents Insurance contents by fire, theft, water, is available to all Network Homes vandalism or floods. and SW9 Community Housing customers. As the summer arrives and the ✔ Make sure the barbecue is ✔ Where possible, keep a bucket weather improves, many of us positioned in a safe location, of water, sand or a garden How much does it cost? like to get the barbecue out where kids and pets won’t touch hose nearby for emergencies. and enjoy time with our friends or bump into it. Remember, For standard cover: ✔ Avoid wearing loose clothing To find out more: and family. By following the grills stay hot after you finish that might catch fire while • Outer London and Hertfordshire properties – tips below, you will keep your cooking. • Phone 0345 450 7288 you’re cooking. £1.61 per fortnight for over 60s and £2.18 per home, family, visitors and ✔ Never leave the barbecue fortnight for under 60s. • Email [email protected] neighbours safe. ✔ Keep alcoholic beverages away unattended. from the barbecue - they are • London properties - £2 per fortnight for over 60s • Visit www.thistlemyhome.co.uk ✔ You should never use a ✔ Ensure that the barbecue is flammable. and £2.78 per fortnight for under 60s. barbecue in an enclosed area Remember: although we insure the building completely cooled before moving, such as a balcony. If you would like any further There is no excess which means the insurer will pay you live in, it is your responsibility to insure disposing or placing it back in information about keeping out for the smallest claim. your personal possessions. ✔ Always follow the storage. Empty the cold ash onto you and your household safe manufacturers guidance. bare garden soil – never put it in when having a barbecue, the dustbin. Be aware that it can ✔ Make sure barbecues are placed please contact the Fire Safety often take a few hours for Making improvements to your home on level ground where they will Team on 0300 373 3000. a barbecue to cool completely. We recognise that your home is (as your landlord) for, before you For more information about the not tip over. your castle and that you want start making improvements to improvements you can make to to make it as comfortable and your home. Fitting kitchens or your home, please check your personal to you as possible. bathrooms, heating systems, tenancy agreement and speak Fan heater recall You might want to paint all your new windows, conservatories to our Customer Service team interior walls purple, put shelves and turning front gardens into on 0300 373 3000 for advice. A number of fan heaters have with one of these heaters by If you have previously been issued up everywhere, or turn your driveways – and many other been recalled following the our gas maintenance contractors with and continue to use a Center lounge into a library. We like major improvements - need our discovery of a technical fault. before 13 April, please don’t FH-06A 2kW portable electric fan seeing properties that are loved written permission before you The Center FH-06A 2kW portable use it. heater, please phone us on electric fan heater may overheat 0300 373 3000. and really lived in – it tells us that begin. This means you should Any heaters issued to you by PH and cause a fire hazard. you’re proud to be there and that avoid buying expensive materials or Jones, Oakray Heating or T Brown There is no need to contact us you’re taking care of it just as making commitments to building The manufacturer has recalled Group after 13 April will not have or to be concerned if you have you would if you owned it. contractors before you have this product and all of our been this model, so please do not already disposed of your heater. spoken to us and checked that There are some things that you contractors have returned their be concerned if you received a your improvement plans meet do need to seek our permission current stocks. If you were issued heater after this time. our criteria.

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The Government’s Help to Buy scheme is available to first-time buyers who want to buy a new-build Singh family home with a purchase price up to £600,000. Couple Gurpritam Singh and Using part of their savings to put “Shared ownership has made the Through the scheme, you will only need a 5% Jasbir Kaur (both 37) were keen down a 25% deposit, the family world of difference to our family,” bought a 35% share (valued at he adds. “It’s such a relief to be deposit. The Government will then provide an equity to get on the property ladder and purchase a bigger home for £156,000) of a three-bedroom, in our own place - it’s brought loan of up to 40% of the purchase price, interest-free their two children. But with high two-bathroom apartment. The full stability to our lives. Now that for the first five years. house prices, they didn’t want all market value was £445,714. we’ve decorated and made it our their money going on mortgage own, it really feels like home. We And, unlike shared ownership, you will own 100% Whereas their previous monthly repayments. Nor did they want to are very happy.” of your new home! outgoings were £1,350 per month, keep throwing their money ‘down they now pay £1,307, comprising To find out more about Help to Buy, go to the drain’ on monthly rent. £575 mortgage repayment, £600 www.networkhomes.org.uk/homes-to-buy “We wanted to get onto the subsidised rent and £132 service Help to Buy is available on some of our new homes at property ladder and have charges. Importantly, it’s their Kilburn Quarter. somewhere we could call home, home. but we couldn’t find a solution “The apartment is lovely and that worked for us as a family,” bright with lots of storage,” says says Gurpritam. Shared ownership: Update your Gurpritam. “We didn’t want a Then they came across the home that was entirely open plan. information family-sized apartments available We wanted a separate kitchen as is it right for you? to purchase through shared we do a lot of home cooking, Shared ownership is designed In London and enter a ownership at Lime Walk in as well as entertaining to help you buy a home with Wembley Park. friends and family. • You must have a gross a smaller deposit and lower prize draw household income of up monthly housing costs than to £90,000 per annum. if you were to buy on the open Having up-to-date, accurate market. • You must be a first-time information about our residents buyer or be unable to buy With shared ownership, you buy is important to us. It means that a home now if you owned between a 25-75% share of the we can plan and provide services one in the past. full market value of the home that are relevant to you. and pay rent on the remaining Outside London We are currently updating the portion. When you can afford • You must have a gross information we hold on our to, you can increase the share household income of up to residents and are asking you to you own gradually until you £80,000. help. Over the summer we will reach full ownership. We call this be sending out links via SMS and ‘staircasing’. • You must be a first-time buyer email so you can update your or be unable to buy a home Buying with shared ownership information yourself. As an added now if you owned one in the from Network Homes means incentive, if you fill in the form past. that you won’t have a chain and online you’ll be entered into a you will be able to buy a brand If it sounds like shared ownership prize draw. You could win one of new home that’s ready for you to might be right for you, check out ten prizes including a weekend move straight in to. the homes to buy section of away in the UK or £250 in our website, To be able to buy through shared shopping vouchers. So watch www.networkhomes.org.uk/ ownership, there are some out for that email or text! homes-to-buy criteria that you have to meet.

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Regeneration update The Ridgeway Stockwell Park We believe in the possibilities that regeneration estate, Hertford Wayland House welcomes Thrayle House receives planning residents permission can bring to communities. In April, our regeneration plans for the Ridgeway estate received We were thrilled to welcome Thrayle House is the latest phase planning permission. Later this both the residents of the original of our Stockwell Park regeneration Relocation of year we will begin work on site, Wayland House and new programme and received planning demolishing the five existing homeowners as they moved permission in April. We will be Ridgeway tree blocks and starting the build of into their brand new homes on building 177 new homes and 120 new homes on the site. Robsart Street in March. The new two community facilities on the helps memory building, called Park Heights, existing site. Residents of Thrayle to live on is a 20 storey tower with two House will be able to move back fantastic communal roof gardens into the new homes and there will Regeneration is as much and incredible views from the also be homes in the landmark about the community as it is balconies. tower available for sale. about the bricks and mortar that go into the buildings. Our plans at the Ridgeway estate in Hertfordshire include building Spotlight on: Rectory Park over an area that was previously grassed. A commemorative tree was Our work with Ealing Council received planning permission planted there in memory of a young boy who was tragically killed in a South Kilburn to regenerate Rectory Park in for the remaining phases of the road accident. Resident Liaison Officer, Emma White, says: “The tree is We have nearly completed the Northolt began four years ago in programme. important to the community here and we were keen to ensure that it first of the new blocks at South 2012. The homes on the estate was safely relocated. We worked with Garden Barber to dig up the tree Kilburn and residents of the In May we began work on were in need of major renovation without damaging it and we have replanted it near the soon to be built old tower block will be moving Phase 3a, demolishing numbers and modernisation and, in children’s play area on the estate. I’m really pleased that we were able back into their brand new 166-259 Rectory Park to make December 2012, we began work to help Heath’s memory to live on.” homes later this year. way for 137 new homes. We are on Phase 1 of the regeneration. aiming to complete Phase 3a in Fast forward to 2016 and we March 2018. have completed Phases 1 and 2 Phases 3b and 4 will be the Building confidence, developing a career of the programme, building 160 final chapter of Rectory Park’s new homes for local people at a transformation. Work will begin for Providing apprenticeship Finchley College when she took an difference. She now works with mixture of social rent, affordable phase 3b in June 2017 and phase opportunities is an important part apprenticeship on our South Kilburn Beverley - a mature apprentice, rent, affordable home ownership 4 in November 2017. of our regeneration work. Here development. painter and decorator. Beverley has and private sale. We have also we take a closer look at one of been mentoring and supporting Titch says she is inspired to do those apprenticeships and talk to Titch – and both of them have been creative things as her father is a Nomsa from South Kilburn. benefiting from this relationship. famous artist in South Africa and she feels certain this creativity to Although she is still quite shy, Demolition: work with paint - in any form - is in Titch has a quiet determination her blood. But she wasn’t always so about her and says she hopes what happens to the debris? sure of herself. An early dabble with one day to run her own painting Performance and Drama at college and decorating business. But for When we demolish a building to gets crushed on site and sorted left her lacking in confidence and now she’s happy to build on the make way for a shiny new one, into different British Standard feeling unsure of finding a career basic skills she has learnt and her there’s a lot of debris to clear grades which means that that suited her. confidence is growing daily - having away from the old building. So the rubble can be re-used for already gained her Level 2 Diploma. When she joined the project, what happens to it? temporary car parks, footpaths, she was working on a site in She says: “I’ve really learned a lot roads and to backfill trenches. Senior Construction Project Contractors Hill sorting through Brent and although her skills being an apprentice. I’m building Nomsa - or Titch as she is better Manager, Abi Jacobs explains: “Our “We try to re-use as much as we the recyclable materials. known - is a 26 year old painter were growing, she was suffering up my skills daily and I know it contractors sort through all of the can in the building process. So and decorator. from her lack of confidence, will help me get the qualifications materials on site, separating out for example, we use the stones is a key part of the demolition despite encouragement from her I need to do something different bricks, metals, glass, plastics and and brick fragments to create the process and less than 0.5% of She had already achieved her managers. However, a move to with my life and hopefully start my anything else that can be recycled. foundations for the scaffolding.” Level 1 in the trade at Barnet and South Kilburn has made all the own business one day.” the materials created in the “The rubble from the demolition Reusing and recycling materials demolition end up in landfill!

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London residents celebrated at awards Group Panel gets started Residents from across London Group Panel to meet and get a Your Group Panel members are: residents who have gone the important contribution that our In May, we celebrated our and Hertfordshire came together taste of what they can achieve • Helen Barnard involved residents at our London extra mile, driving forward service involved residents make, both in together. The Panel will use service at the first ever Network • Teresa Burrows region Resident Involvement improvement for the benefit of all their local communities and in the Homes Group Panel meeting on information to commission scrutiny • Jacqui Coleman and Celebration Awards (RICA) residents. way that we run our services. Wednesday 15 June. reviews and mystery shopping ceremony in Wembley. • Peter Fiddeman Sarah Tickner, Community “We are always keen to work The Panel is made up of projects across Network Homes. This Attended by over 100 residents Engagement and Investment with our residents and these representatives from each existing will give them a great ability to bring • Satish Jassal and staff, the awards ceremony Manager, said: “These awards awards showcase just some of the local group. They will play a key about service improvements.” • Julia Jennings-Hatt enabled us to thank those are our way of recognising the opportunities that are available.” role in making sure that services If you would like to know more • Andrew Lee are as good as they can be, about how the local panel in your • Nick Sharman wherever you live. area will make a difference, contact Ian Lamerton, Co-regulation the Resident Engagement team on Representatives from SW9 Manager for Herts and Out of [email protected]. Community Housing will join This year’s awards winners London, explains: “This was the uk or call 0300 373 3000. the Panel at a later date. first chance for members of the Arm Chair Involvement Award Scheme Representative of the Contribution to Service Sujatha Jothi Year Award Improvement Award Residents Working Together Lawrence Johnson • Abiodun Adeyemi Award Community Spirit of the Year • Dee Alapafuja Resident Involvement Framework: 243 Ealing Road Residents’ Award • Emma Grant we want your views Group • Jeanette Cain • Geraldine Kwokori • Kathryn Andrews • Dennis Payne • Gerod Harris We are starting to form a our statutory requirement, home ownership - to comment on • Achi Ejikeme • Evelyn Gruber • Helen Oriot framework for our resident so you’ll be helping us to lay the draft strategy and to give us down the foundations of our feedback. • Lycia Lobo • Jeanine Margurite • Kate Elliot involvement and we’d like your help. resident engagement agenda - • Samia Moktar • Lycia Lobo • Mohamed Abubaker The comments we receive from an important piece of work that The result will be guidelines that you will inform the framework that Kingsley Court Social Club Improving the Customer • Sujatha Jothi lies at the very core of what Experience Award explain how we will seek your will go to our Board for approval • Lawrence Johnson Older Person of the Year Network Homes is about. involvement in services and in early 2017. • Harold Lisk Resident Quality Inspectors Anna Viero (Community improvements to ensure that we We’ll be consulting with all our • Martin Pover If you would like to take part in • Brenda Harris Champion) are giving you a choice in the way residents towards the end of the consultation, please contact • Ken Evans • Lawrence Johnson Involved Resident of the Year we work with you, and a structure September 2016 and we want to Ian Lamerton at our Hertford • Darcy Alkins for listening to your comments hear from you if you would like to Community Champion of the Dianne Larrington office on 01992 800629, or and receiving feedback. It will also take part in the process. Year Award by email at ian.lamerton@ provide a framework for how you Patricia Hafez We’ll be working closely with our networkhomes.org.uk by 5pm can work with your neighbours to local and group panels but we also on Wednesday 31 August 2016. directly improve your community. want residents generally – across For more information about ways that you can get involved, visit our website www.networkhomes.org.uk This framework is a core part of all areas and type of tenancy or

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You’re invited!

Network Homes Residents’ Day 2016 Saturday 24 September 11am-3:30pm The Drum, Brent Civic Centre, Wembley Park

Interested in housing hot topics? Come and meet the team from Network Homes. Want to know more about welfare reform and how it will Find out more about who we are affect you? and our promises to you. Looking for employment and Tell us how we can make your training advice? homes even better. And get advice from our experts.

We will provide: To register your interest • Light buffet lunch call us on: 0300 373 3000 or • Advice clinics on money email [email protected] management, welfare and look out for your reform and employment invitation in the post. • A chance to enter our prize draw!

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0300 373 3000 Network Homes Residents’ Day 2016 [email protected] Saturday 24 September www.networkhomes.org.uk 11am-3:30pm @networkhomesuk The Drum, Brent Civic Centre, Wembley Park www.facebook.com/networkhomesuk

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Come and meet the team from Network Homes. Find out more about who we are and our promises to you. Tell us how we can make your homes even better. And get advice from our experts.

We will provide: · Light buffet lunch · Advice clinics on money management, welfare reform and employment · A chance to enter our prize draw!

To register your interest call us on 0300 373 3000 and look out for your invitation in the post.