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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...
Community news
Say hi to our new Customer Voice and Review Committee
Our Customer Voice and Review Committee is growing! Six customers recently joined the committee as new members and this month we held our first official meeting. The committee is here to make sure the customer voice is always heard and at all levels in Yorkshire...
Ridge Close day of action
We’ve been busy working with customers at Ridge Close in Huddersfield to improve the area and make it a better place to live. Earlier this year customers living at Ridge Close got in touch to let us know they weren’t happy with a few things. So, we sent a survey to...
Yorkshire Housing scheme benefitting vulnerable customers
Yorkshire Housing’s Customer Assistance Scheme is making a real difference to people’s lives at this difficult time – with befriending calls earning rave reviews. Staff have made 2,685 calls to 721 customers plus a further 5,723 welfare calls to date. And they are...
Customer stories
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...
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Yorkshire Housing scheme benefitting vulnerable customers
Yorkshire Housing’s Customer Assistance Scheme is making a real difference to people’s lives at this difficult time – with befriending calls earning rave reviews. Staff have made 2,685 calls to 721 customers plus a further 5,723 welfare calls to date. And they are...
Yorkshire Housing’s grass cutting services resume
Yorkshire Housing is due to restart grass cutting services from this week. The service will be provided in a way that is safe for both colleagues and customers under the current COVID-19 lockdown. This will be a grass cutting service only at first. This is because...
Yorkshire Housing helps sufferers of domestic abuse
Yorkshire Housing is helping victims of domestic violence with measures that protect those in danger during the coronavirus pandemic. Support from the Leeds-based housing association includes vacant homes being made available to customers who need alternative...
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship Week at Yorkshire Housing
It’s great that the 14th annual National Apprenticeship Week is taking place from 8 to 14 February 2021, this year the theme is #BuildTheFuture. Because of Covid-19 much of it will take place on line, we want to use the week as a platform to come together and...
Welcome to our new apprentices!
Welcome to our new apprentices! Following our highly successful apprenticeship recruitment campaign in the summer, we are delighted to welcome our new apprentices.Charlotte Thristan (Digital Content Producer Apprentice) "In my first week at YH I have been stuck...
Apprentice Neil wins basketball gold
Yorkshire Housing apprentice Neil Hartley won gold with Team GB at the Special Olympics last month.Neil, 21, was part of the squad that beat the USA 26-20 in the basketball final in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.The Bradford-born defensive ace is a...
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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...
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...
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...