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Sponsored walk raises funds to end homelessness

May 16, 2022

Sponsored walk raises funds to end homelessness

The Executive Teams of Independent East took part in a sponsored charity walk from Dunwich to Walberswick in Suffolk last week. They were walking to support Homeful, the social housing campaign to end homelessness. There is still time to contribute to the campaign.

Independent East housing association executives on sponsored walk of east coast, May 2022
Broadland Housing executives Louise Archer (1st left), Andrew Savage (4th left), Michael Newey (centre), Catherine Little (3rd right)

Michael Newey, Chief Executive, said:

The walk is for a brilliant cause and we’re really pleased to support CIH President Jo Richardson’s campaign to help end homelessness. Although we work separately as Independent East colleagues, we share a similar vision and values. We want a fairer society and an end to youth homelessness, and so this cause is close to our hearts.

Independent East is an informal alliance of five community‐focused housing associations in the East of England. The group’s purpose is to share ideas and best practice to continually improve services and better the lives of their tenants.

PCC visits Foundations project for prison leavers

May 12, 2022

PCC visits Foundations project for prison leavers

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PPC) for Norfolk, Giles Orpen-Smellie, recently visited St Martins’ Foundations project. As a project partner, Broadland provides high-quality properties and the Probation Service makes the referrals.

Foundations helps prison leavers to reintegrate back into Norfolk’s communities, reducing the likelihood they will reoffend or become homeless.

Supported housing for prison leavers

Foundation project workers make sure that everything is ready as soon as clients move in, including all white goods and furnishings. The properties are finished to a high standard, with crockery, bedding and other items purchased to make the house a home. It is a new experience for the clients to take pride in their home. This is the first time they have been valued enough to be trusted with a property and this empowers them to take control of their lives.

Built into the project is support from a health navigator who works alongside the clients to help them to attend appointments. Often long-term health conditions are masked by a chaotic lifestyle. Once a person becomes settled in their accommodation, it is not uncommon for health problems come to the fore so it is crucial that people are supported into getting the treatment they need.

Set up at the start of the pandemic, is part Foundations is part of wider project with Norwich City council to provide decent homes for people so they are no longer on the street.

Offending has reduced

Foundation statistics show that offending has reduced. The project has attracted national recognition and was highly commended in the Homeless Link ‘prevention into action’ awards 2021.

Data identified a ‘revolving door’ cohort of clients who bounced between prison, the streets, hostel accommodation and back to prison. These are people at a high risk of reoffending and becoming trapped in a cycle of homelessness. Complex issues might include past trauma, addiction and abuse. Their histories make them too risky and services are reluctant to engage with them.

Case study – Justin

Foundations client Justin is 37 and has been a prolific offender throughout his life. The St Martins team first met Justin when he was homeless in 2014, following the breakdown of an 18-year relationship with his partner. He left his family home and reverted back to offending behaviour that was instilled during his childhood, resulting in numerous small offences, usually to fund his drug use.  For years, Justin bounced between hostels and short prison stays, with increasing paranoia and mental distress. This cycle was broken when Justin moved into a one-bedroom flat within the Foundations project. His illicit drug use appears to have stopped now he is on a maintenance prescription, and he is engaging positively with services. He budgets well, shops independently and his flat is clean and tidy. Whereas previously Justin lived from day to day – sometimes hour by hour – he now cares for his son, and has a long-term intention to get custody of him.

The Police and Crime Commissioner commended the Foundations project as:

a prime example of intuitive and formative thinking’

Foundations give people the potential to achieve a place in the community, whereas they were perceived as a burden to society before in terms of court costs, policing and community safety.

Tenants raise £900 for Ukraine

March 29, 2022

Tenants raise £900 for Ukraine

Generous tenants at our Woodcote sheltered housing scheme have raised £900 for the Red Cross. The fundraising will help support children and elderly people caught up in the conflict in Ukraine.

The 60 residents at Woodcote in Hethersett held a special coffee morning, where they watched 2 films about the background to the conflict. One film was presented by Red Cross workers on the ground in Ukraine.

Stephen Baxter, scheme manager (far right in picture), said:

Lots of residents had been asking what they could do to help. They were moved by images of families and elderly people suffering terrible conditions as a result of the conflict,

Also, one of the carers who works here has a Ukrainian husband, so that has also brought the crisis closer to home.

Woodcote tenant Richard Headicar said:

The suffering of elderly people and children and families caught up in what is going on in Ukraine has tugged on all of our heartstrings.  We all wanted to do what we could to help mitigate their plight.

Fellow tenant Molly Allison added:

I have cried every morning when I see what is happening on the television.

Humanitarian aid

Red Cross teams are working both in Ukraine itself and in neighbouring countries, where they are providing humanitarian aid to the influx of refugees. This includes food and water, first aid and medicines, warm clothes and shelter.

The charity has distributed over 90,000 food and hygiene parcels and provided food, warm clothes and other aid to around 7,000 people sheltering in metro stations in Kyiv. It has also delivered first aid training to over 12,000 people in Ukraine.

World-leading construction industry body visits Canary Quay, Norwich

March 24, 2022

CIOB visit to Canary Quay, Norwich, 17 March 2022

World-leading construction industry body visits Canary Quay

Caroline Gumble with Andrew Savage, Executive Development Director, and James Carter of RG Carter

We recently welcomed Caroline Gumble, Chief Executive Officer at the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), to Canary Quay. The CIOB is the world’s largest and most influential professional body for construction management and leadership.

Now in its final phase, Canary Quay will provide 323 mixed tenure apartments when complete.

Caroline noted the close working and collaborative approach between Broadland Housing Association, Broadland St Benedicts and our construction partners RG Carter. The Canary Quay project has turned an industrial warehouse and car park into a new residential area in the heart of the city.

Caroline was in Norwich promoting the launch of the new CIOB equality, diversity and inclusion charter for the construction industry.

Broadland celebrates Sustainable Housing Label success

March 14, 2022

Broadland Housing has received a Sustainable Housing Label from international consultants Ritterwald. We are the first medium-sized housing association to receive the award, which recognises our strong ESG (environmental, social and governance) performance.

The Sustainable Housing Label looks at more than 40 ESG criteria that are aligned to the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing, and scrutinises sustainability across the operations of an organisation.

Broadland scored highly on tenant engagement, “ethical” considerations, and “high-quality sustainable housing, staff and tenant wellbeing and tenant representation”.

  • Broadland Housing Association Chief Executive Michael Newey receiving the SUstainable Housing Label award from Austen Reid of Ritterwald
    Michael Newey, Chief Executive (right) receiving the award from Austen Reid, UK Director, Ritterwald
  • Ritterwald Sustainable Housing Label, achieved by Broadland Housing Group in December 2021

High score for tenant engagement

Iain Grieve, Executive Finance Director, said:

There were some really positive things from the label application process around how we engage with our tenants, and around the communities and the surroundings of our development schemes, how we obtain feedback from our staff, and how we focus on staff wellbeing.

There’s a lot of focus on the environmental side and net zero decarbonisation, but actually it’s the wider view of ESG and sustainability that funders are interested in.

Ritterwald said that Broadland can “lead the way for other medium-sized social landlords looking to obtain an externally verified ESG accreditation”:

…A sustainability strategy has to have a strong element of engagement with residents, and Broadland was able to demonstrate it.

Austen Reid, UK director, Ritterwald

Benefits for the whole housing sector

Iain said the Sustainable Housing Label has knock-on effects for the whole sector if more housing associations apply:

There’s no need to be intimidated by something like an ESG accreditation, despite the fact that most of the holders are larger housing associations with more resources.

What we found is that, going through the process, it looks at our operation and the things we would do on a day-to-day basis anyway. It’s allowed us to benchmark our performance against other housing associations, which has been another benefit.

Ultimately, we’re all trying to achieve the same thing. It’s a really good thing to do, I think, to help us move forward together as a sector.

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