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YH Business Analyst creates a solar-powered home office!
While we’ve been busy setting Yorkshire Housing’s company goals to lower carbon emissions, our team are getting in on the action too! Our Business Analyst Emma Bremner has set her own environmental off grid plans for the future. And as the heat wave continues, Emma is...
Launch of South Yorkshire Housing Partnership
A new partnership aiming to raise the profile and combined contribution of housing associations across South Yorkshire has been launched. The 11 main housing associations working across the region have to come together as the South Yorkshire Housing Partnership...
£1.3 million upgrade project to improve energy efficiency of homes in Staxton
We’re investing £1.3 million in upgrading 15 of our homes in Staxton, North Yorkshire to make them more energy efficient. £190,000 of the £1.3 million is coming from the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund which provides funding to improve the energy...
Our fight against climate change as Net Zero Week 2022 continues
Net Zero Week 2022 is officially in full swing! Businesses and consumers around the world are urged to take action in the fight against climate change. With Net Zero Week, from Sunday 2 July to Friday 8 July, serving as a push in this much needed momentum. This...
Yorkshire Housing complete £250,000 retrofit project
Work to retrofit thirty houses and flats with heat pumps and solar panels in the Craven area has been completed. Work started on properties in Skipton, Burton-In-Lonsdale, Clapham and Horton-In-Ribblesdale in March. As part of the project solar panels have been...
Nick Atkin heralds’ new era as colleagues are welcomed into new workspace
Our sector leading flexible approach to working is transforming services for customers The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on how and where we work. The latest figures show that a quarter of workers are now hybrid working. At Yorkshire Housing we’d always...
Yorkshire Housing apprentice wins top award
Yorkshire Housing apprentice Muhammad Uddin has scooped a top prize at the inaugural WY Apprenticeship Awards held in Bradford on Thursday 9 June. The awards celebrated the work of apprentices throughout the county and was hosted by The Yorkshire Evening Post, in...
Yorkshire Housing customer shortlisted for Women in Housing Award
An inspirational Yorkshire Housing customer has been shortlisted for a prestigious industry award. Tracey Tucker, who lives in Barnsley, has been a Yorkshire Housing customer for eight years and will be among the nominees for Committee Member of the Year at the...
Yorkshire Housing Visits Aico Headquarters for a Product Development Day
We recently visited Aico headquarters, the European Market Leader in Home Life Safety, following our Inside Housing Innovation Week award win. Part of the prize for winning the award was £10,000 and support from Aico to help develop our innovation idea, with Aico...
Kirklees crisis intervention charity receives £2,000 donation from Yorkshire Housing
Yorkshire Housing has donated £2,000 to The Welcome Centre in South Kirklees to assist with its work in helping people in crisis in the local community. The Welcome Centre is a charity that provides a range of practical support including food and personal care packs...
Yorkshire Housing publish annual Gender and Ethnicity Pay Report
We've published our ethnicity pay gap for the first time as we continue to make progress towards becoming a truly inclusive employer. Our annual Gender and Ethnicity Pay Report has shown that we have maintained a positive mean gender pay gap of 1.62%. We have also...
First affordable homes handed over at £8.6 million York development
From left to right: Jonathan Sizer (Managing Director Lindum York), Keith Willert (Site Manager) Sian Webster (Director of Development Yorkshire Housing) and Freddie Chambers (Managing Director Lindum Group) York based construction contractor, Lindum Group have...
European Regional Development Fund to help retrofit North Yorkshire homes
We’re working with Craven District Council on an ambitious carbon reduction project, to reduce energy bills for customers and deliver a significant reduction in carbon emissions. In total around £250,000 will be spent over the next few months upgrading 30 houses and...
A very Yorkshire partnership takes off
Yorkshire Air Ambulance has been named as our Charity of the Year for 2022 following a vote by 700 colleagues. Business analyst Mo Rahman put forward Yorkshire Air Ambulance after he witnessed the brilliant work they do. The charity rescued his friend when he fell...
Prospectus launched to bring new homes to South Yorkshire
A group of housing associations, including Yorkshire Housing, have launched a Prospectus to put the housing needs of South Yorkshire at the heart of devolution and improve lives across the region. The South Yorkshire Housing Prospectus has been produced by 12 housing...
Chameleon Business Interiors appointed to deliver ‘futuristic’ new hub
We're delighted to announce that we've appointed Hull based Chameleon Business Interiors to lead the fit-out of The Place, our new city centre hub in Leeds that'll help transform how we deliver services to customers. We signed a 10-year lease for The Place in...
125 affordable homes given approval for site in Huddersfield
A major project in Linthwaite, Huddersfield, to build 125 high quality, eco-friendly affordable homes has been given the go-ahead by planners. Casey have been granted permission to build on the site at the former Broad Oak Farm. The £22 million project is being...
Yorkshire Housing co-funds Sheffield’s first black mental-health friendly salon
Our customer Ursula Myrie is the founder and managing director of survivor led mental health and wellbeing service, Adira. Adira recently opened Sheffield’s first mental health friendly black hair and beauty salon - Tyrah's Touch. We’re proudly co-funding it alongside...
Local MP visits £24 million housing scheme in Boroughbridge
We welcomed the Member of Parliament for Harrogate and Knaresborough, Andrew Jones MP, to our £24 million development at Castle Locke, Knaresborough on Friday 4th February. Mr Jones was joined by Yorkshire Housing Chief Executive Nick Atkin, Executive Director...
Yorkshire Housing to increase investment in apprenticeships by 60%
To mark National Apprenticeship Week, we've committed to increasing our investment in apprenticeships by 60% in a boost to local jobs. The additional £140k in funding will allow us to employ a total of 30 apprentices across a variety of roles in areas such as...
‘Its the future’: Work starts to install Heat pumps in twenty Ryedale homes
We're working with Communitas Energy CIC to use the Warm Homes Fund to install Air Source Heat Pumps in twenty homes in Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Funding was secured by Ryedale District Council along with North Yorkshire County Council via The Warm Homes Fund, set up...
West Yorkshire Housing Partnership reaches major milestone
The Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, met with Yorkshire Housing and other members of the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership today as they published their first annual report. The report highlights the important work being done to put housing front and...
Yorkshire Housing celebrates 1,500 new home milestone
We’re “well chuffed” to announce we’ve finished building our 1,500th new home since we pledged to build 8,000 affordable homes by 2030. That’s despite challenges across the sector caused by the pandemic. We hit the milestone at our Long Lee development in Keighley,...
Money coaching team hit jackpot with community centre and mosque visit
Our hub, home and roam approach means team meetings can take place anywhere! The Money Coaching team met up at Indian Muslim Welfare Society and had a tour of the Masjid Noor-ul-Islam mosque in Batley. They also enjoyed a delicious biryani and samosa lunch from a...
Christmas period
Our customer experience centre will be closed over the Christmas period. To report emergency repairs 24/7 or make a payment to your rent account you can call 0345 366 4404. For all non-emergencies and online home enquiries reported over the festive period, we'll get...
We’ve changed our repairs policy
We‘ve made some changes to our repairs policy. This means that some repairs will take longer than before. Here’s an overview of what has changed and why. Emergency repairs These are repairs that we complete within 4 hours. Emergency repairs include urgent issues...
Money coaches save customer almost £35,000
Our fabulous money coaches have helped one customer claim almost £35,000 in backdated payments from the Department of Work and Pensions. Our money and tenancy coaching service helps to support customers who are finding it hard to manage their money, find work...
Smart homes pilot secures funding after Inside Housing award win
We’re delighted to announce that our smart homes pilot has won the first ever Inside Housing Innovation Award following a public vote. The win will see us awarded £10,000 to install smart technology to customers’ homes. The award was set up to recognise social...
Yorkshire Housing customers come together to speak out on tackling climate change
Yorkshire Housing customers have teamed up with housing associations across the north to publish new advice on tackling climate change in their homes and neighbourhoods. The first of its kind, the Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury saw 30 social housing...
Yorkshire Housing net-zero standard to ‘go beyond’ government targets
We’ve created our own standard for newly built homes that will exceed the Future Homes Standard recently set out by the government. Our plans will start to see us phase out gas in new homes commissioned from next year, three years ahead of government targets. Sunday...
Customer annual report 2020/21
Everything we do is about making it possible for our customers to have a place they’re proud to call home. Our customer annual report looks at an all-round view of how we’re doing. From repairs stats and how many customer visits our help at hand service did, right...
Watch out for the fraudsters!
Would you know how to spot and stop a potential scam? During lockdown the numbers of people being scammed increased dramatically, sadly with older and vulnerable people are being deliberately targeted. Fraudsters use a wide range of scams and trickery to con people,...
Building more homes in Ripon Road
Yorkshire Housing, along with Space Homes are working with Vistry to deliver the £8.7m Ripon Road development, which will have 73 homes in total, consisting of 37 affordable homes and 36 for sale. The new development has been created to boost the area’s affordable...
Work starts on over a hundred new homes in Menston
Work's started on 113 new affordable homes in popular Wharfedale village Menston. Yorkshire-based contractor Tolent was awarded a £17.7m contract back in June. The team is now on site to deliver a mix of two, three and four-bedroom homes. Supported by Homes...
Customers join day of action at Concorde Mews
Yesterday, Yorkshire Housing colleagues joined forces with customers at Concorde Mews in Doncaster to improve the area and make it a better place to live. Earlier this year customers living at Concorde Mews got in touch to let us know they weren’t happy with a...
Yorkshire Housing shortlisted for Innovation Award
Our wonderful innovation team have been shortlisted for the first ever Inside Housing Innovation Award. Our proposed smart homes pilot scheme will remotely monitor boilers, so engineers know exactly what's wrong before they arrive. This means fewer visits, less...
Yorkshire Housing appoints new Chair to oversee ambitious investment plans
Yorkshire Housing is delighted to announce the appointment of Ingrid Fife as its next Chair. She succeeds outgoing Chair Will Lifford, when he steps down at the AGM in September following the end of his term. She is joined by three other new board members who bring a...
New housing sector report looks at equality and diversity in Yorkshire
Equality, diversity and inclusion is important to us at Yorkshire Housing. One of our values is ‘be yourself’ and we want all customers and colleagues to feel accepted and included. This is why we’ve taken part in an equality and diversity survey along with 21 other...
Flexing the YH way: Delivering a better customer experience by providing colleagues with more flexibility, by Nina Evison
Working from home isn’t flexible working if it’s the only choice you have. The past eighteen months have been hard for everyone. Overnight we were forced to work from home, abandoning our offices and desks. The challenge of remote working during a global pandemic...
Our community independence grant is back
We’ve loved reopening our community centres over the past few weeks. We know a lot of you have missed taking part in community activities so it’s great to see you reunited and back in action. We also understand that getting back up and running again isn’t simple for...
Yorkshire Housing to support Government’s resettlement plan
We’re saddened by the ongoing situation in Afghanistan. We’re working closely with local councils right across Yorkshire as part of a co-ordinated effort to provide support to families affected by the ongoing events in Afghanistan. We are in close conversation...
Yorkshire Housing joins new anti-racism movement
We’ve pledged our full support to a new anti-racism movement being launched today by the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit. The movement has been created to proactively challenge racism across all...
Topping Out ceremony marks major milestone
A ‘topping out’ ceremony organised by local housebuilder, Barratt Developments Yorkshire East and Yorkshire Housing, has marked the final brick being laid at Orange House - a new collection of affordable homes at David Wilson Homes’ The Chocolate Works development....
West Yorkshire’s first Mayor chats to Yorkshire Housing
The election of Tracy Brabin as the first West Yorkshire mayor marks a new chapter for the region. She’s joined us for a special bonus episode of our Raising the roof podcast alongside Helen Lennon, Chair of the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership, and our Chief...
Exciting news: We’re set to open a new ‘hub’ in the region’s first zero carbon office building
We’re excited to announce we’ve signed a 10-year lease that will see us move into the region’s first zero carbon office building, developed by Citu. It’s the next step for our ‘hub, home and roam’ working approach, which enables colleagues to work from...
Green living at Titan Works
Residents of a new affordable housing development on the site of a former iron works in Boothtown, Halifax, are settling into their new homes. Yorkshire Housing has partnered with EQUANS to create the 46-home Titan Works development on the land on Claremount Road,...
Building new affordable homes in York
The construction of 69 affordable homes in York is almost complete. Planning permission was granted in 2019 and we began building work last summer on the scheme at Hull Road, York. The development will provide a mix of Rent to Buy, Shared Ownership and Affordable Rent...
Pen pal scheme connects residents
In celebration of World Friendship Day 2021 (30 July) we’re sharing news about our new pen pal scheme which has been connecting older residents and helping them beat isolation. Customers from Sheffield, York, Bradford and Barnsley have formed new friendships...
First of its kind Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury meets today
We’re excited to be involved in the north of England’s first tenants’ climate jury which hosts its inaugural session today. The Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury is made up of 30 tenants from project partners including Yorkshire Housing, First Choice Homes Oldham,...
ASB Awareness Week: How we’re tackling noise nuisance through mediation
This week marks the start of the UK's first ever antisocial behaviour awareness week (19 - 25 July). With over 18,000 properties across Yorkshire, we’re the largest developing housing association in the area. But, managing so many properties isn’t...
