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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...
Community news
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...
Yorkshire Housing bring cheer to NHS workers
Pictured above is a small selection of the items donated by Yorkshire Housing residents to frontline NHS workers Yorkshire Housing staff helped vulnerable older people present food hampers packed with essentials plus a cash donation to frontline NHS workers. Residents...
Customer stories
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...
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...
Services
Yorkshire Housing pioneering Together with Tenants
Together with Tenants is a great opportunity for Yorkshire Housing as we look to achieve our vision. A key part of this strategy is the following: “Everyone should have the opportunity to live in a quality home they can afford.” We are committed to delivering a great...
New technology to speed up repairs
New technology will help Yorkshire Housing improve the customer experience of repairs and renovations. The housing association’s asset management system is to be streamlined later this year – bringing with it improvements in service delivery. Asset management is a key...
Committee helps keep Yorkshire Housing on track
Yorkshire Housing makes itself available for scrutiny from the people we serve – our customers. In this blog, Customer Service Committee member Amy Green (pictured below) details the work she and her colleagues do to make sure we keep our services on track.My name’s...
Apprenticeships
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...
Apprentice vacancies at Yorkshire Housing
Our apprenticeship vacancies are open now. Come and work for a top 100 apprentice employer – we need you!
National recognition for Yorkshire Housing apprenticeship programme
Yorkshire Housing has been highly commended in the large employer of the year category at the government-backed National Apprenticeship Awards – after winning the Yorkshire, Humber and North East regional category.
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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...