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Do you want to make a real difference in your community? Are you keen to shape how we do things at Yorkshire Housing? If the answer is yes, you might just be the perfect person to join our Customer Voice and Review Committee. Our Customer Voice and Review Committee is...
Key development site acquired in Knaresborough
Yorkshire Housing has acquired an 18-acre development site on Boroughbridge Road in Knaresborough, where it now plans to build 120 homes that will be available through a wide range of ownership options. Dacre, Son & Hartley’s specialist agricultural and...
Esh Construction Completes £11m New Affordable Homes in Yorkshire
Esh Construction has worked in partnership with Yorkshire Housing to deliver more than 80 affordable homes across two developments totalling £11.4 million in Yorkshire. The first to complete was Bodmin Road, marking the first land-led development Esh Construction has...
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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 makes foodbank campaign donation
Yorkshire Housing has donated £25,000 to kick-start a fundraising drive will help foodbanks supply much-needed essentials to people hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The cash is for the More than Homes campaign – which launched today (Tue) and aims to raise an initial...
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Yorkshire Housing selected as a ambassador for #SaferHomes4All campaign
Yorkshire Housing selected as a ambassador for #SaferHomes4All campaign As part of it's ongoing Resident Safety Campaign, Inside Housing has appointed Yorkshire Housing, and 11 other housing associations, as its Safer Homes Ambassador. Representing Yorkshire...
Coronavirus: What we learned
As most news pieces about coronavirus begin, we have to start with saying how suddenly lockdown came upon us. It was unbelievable in a way, with none of us ever having experienced this before. At Yorkshire Housing, we went full steam ahead to respond to the lockdown...
Domestic abuse resources now available in 17 languages
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, we’re still seeing a high level of domestic abuse across the UK. Domestic Abuse charity Refuge has reported a 25 per cent increase in the number of calls as many of those affected continue to be trapped at home with their...
Services
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
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...
Apprenticeships at Yorkshire Housing… now that’s a bright idea!
National Apprenticeship Week runs from 5 to 9 March and, to support the week, Yorkshire Housing is celebrating the success of their apprenticeship programme by showcasing apprenticeships as a pathway to a great career. Under the hashtag #NAW2018, and the theme...
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Key development site acquired in Knaresborough
Yorkshire Housing has acquired an 18-acre development site on Boroughbridge Road in Knaresborough, where it now plans to build 120 homes that will be available through a wide range of ownership options. Dacre, Son & Hartley’s specialist agricultural and...
Esh Construction Completes £11m New Affordable Homes in Yorkshire
Esh Construction has worked in partnership with Yorkshire Housing to deliver more than 80 affordable homes across two developments totalling £11.4 million in Yorkshire. The first to complete was Bodmin Road, marking the first land-led development Esh Construction has...
Text messages for help at hand customers
We’re starting to send text messages to our Help@Hand customers from 7 September. It’s part of improvements we’re making to our systems to modernise and give a better customer experience. We hope this addition of text messages will make things much easier with...
Coronavirus: What we learned
As most news pieces about coronavirus begin, we have to start with saying how suddenly lockdown came upon us. It was unbelievable in a way, with none of us ever having experienced this before. At Yorkshire Housing, we went full steam ahead to respond to the lockdown...
Yorkshire Housing COVID-19 service update
For our customers in Calderdale, Kirklees and Bradford please note that all repairs will go ahead as normal from Monday 10th August. This means that all customers are now back to normal repair services. As we continue to put the safety of our customers and...
Our repair work
It has been a few weeks since we restarted our non-emergency repairs service for customers following the lockdown measures introduced to keep colleagues and customers safe from coronavirus. Not being able to deliver general repairs meant we had approximately 3,515...
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