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We have made a £5,000 donation to Halton Haven Hospice, after colleagues from across Halton Housing celebrated reaching Halton, in Ontario, Canada, as part of the Big Team Challenge. 

Learning at Work Week 2022 kicked off today with this year’s theme ‘Learning Uncovered’ shining a spotlight on the importance and benefits of continual learning and development.  

We're supporting this year's Mental Health Awareness week and its theme of loneliness.  We encourage all our customers to seek help if or when they need it.

The Platinum Jubilee is the 70th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the first time a British monarch has reached this milestone. 

Taking place from 16th – 22nd May 2022, The Big Plastic Count is the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste.

Two of our Apprentices, Molly Case and Olivia Royle, have been shortlisted for Apprentice of the Year 2022 at the Halton Business Awards.

The Northern Housing Consortium's 'Unlocking Success' bursary scheme is open again for applications from customers.  

We've been shortlisted in not one but two categories in this year’s Women in Housing and Housing Heroes Awards; Team of the Year and ‘Woman of the Year’.

This May, we’re supporting Plantlife’s ‘No Mow May’ campaign and we’ll be leaving some areas of grass to grow. 

Our Gas Team have been shortlisted for another award, less than 12 months since the team won the 'Team of the Year' award at the Direct Works Awards 2021. 

We will close for the Easter Bank Holiday from 5pm on Thursday 14th April until 9am on Tuesday 19th April. 

We will sponsor the ‘Commitment to the Community Award’ at the Halton Business Awards, hosted by Halton Chamber of Commerce later this year.

Thanks to our Destination Halton Lodge programme, we have provided £1,386.00 to the school to purchase a new laptop charging station.

The award means we have shown we are serious about maintaining a ‘low carbon culture’ by becoming one of 70 carbon literate organisations in the UK and Ireland.

We’re proud to receive a SHIFT Silver Award for the second year running.  

The items will help those fleeing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Take a look at this update on how plans have changed for us moving forward with our Three Sails Point Development.

Working as part of a consortium bid led by Liverpool City Region, we have been successful in a bid for grant funding to support the decarbonisation of homes.

We are working with a partner organisation called Warmfront Limited to carry out energy efficiency surveys of our homes. 

We rounded off an action-packed week, with an Awards ceremony to celebrate our fabulous crop of apprentices.

Liz Haworth will be retiring from her role as Group Chief Executive of Halton Housing in the Autumn.

Throughout the week we will be sharing stories, experiences and insights from our current apprentices highlighting the range of roles they are doing, and the rich talent and enthusiasm they bring.

The money was raised through the raffling of gifts and items donated by our partners and suppliers during the course of 2021. 

We're taking on a virtual walking challenge from Halton, UK to Halton in Ontario, Canada for our 'Halton2Halton' 2022 challenge.  

We have recently joined PIN (Proptech Innovation Network)’s advisory board, as part of our innovation strategy to drive change in the sector.

We are recruiting for an ambitious person to be our first ever IT Digital Technology Solutions Degree apprentice.

Take a look at our highlights of the past year and some of the standout achievements at Halton Housing.

Find out our Christmas and New Year arrangements including what to do in an emergency. 

A paper written by our Innovation Team has been featured as a chapter in the book Climate Emergency – Managing, Building, and Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals.  

We’re helping turn up the heat on Fuel Poverty for Fuel Poverty Awareness Day 2021.

We're delighted to have been shortlisted in Housing Digital's Innovation Awards, for "Most Innovative Housing Provider".

Young people have been getting active in Ditton thanks to a programme of free sports activities.

School children from Woodside Primary School recently joined us to help plant daffodil bulbs in Halton Lodge.

The additional funding will help provide new uniforms and trophies for the club's players.

The new Wellbeing Champions, recruited from all areas across the organisation, will help create opportunities for colleagues to access support, and raise awareness of health & wellbeing issues, to bring more people into the conversation. 

The donation comes following our Homes Team receiving a moving talk from global inspirational health, safety, wellbeing, and resilience speaker, Jason Anker MBE as part of our activities in support of European Week for Safety and Health at Work. 

Halton Housing has today retained a top G1/V1 governance and viability rating from the Regulator of Social Housing

Halton Lodge residents recently attended a Keep Warm, Keep Well event at Halton Lodge Community Centre.

Our Autumn edition of Reach magazine and Annual Report is out now. 

An inspirational talk on workplace safety to maintenance technicians, from Jason Anker MBE. 

We have partnered with Positive Footprints to inspire hundreds of children and young people living in Ditton, as part of our Destination Ditton programme.

We want to hear from you regarding our garage sites across the borough!

We're joining organisations across Europe to highlight the importance of workplace safety this week to mark ‘European Week for Safety and Health at Work’.

Read our ESG report which we have developed as an early adopter of the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing.

Are you a resident of Halton Lodge? Have you received a flyer telling you all about our brand new app just for you?

We're launching a ‘Keep Warm, Keep Well’ campaign with a week of activities in November.

We're supporting a new Youth Hub in Widnes, by providing premises, as part of the government’s commitment to open over 110 new Youth Hubs to offer job help.

Our Gas Team has won the 'Team of the Year' award at the Direct Works Awards 2021 in recognition of going the extra mile in delivering services to customers during the COVID-19.

Our Okell Street development in Runcorn is now complete bringing nine much-needed new homes to a former brownfield site.

Last month, we appointed a new Decarbonisation Strategic Lead, Georgina Patel – demonstrating a continued commitment and investment in this area. 

We're proud to be supporting National Scrutiny Week hosted by the tenant engagement specialist Tpas.

The annual Halton Housing Garden Competition has yet again failed to disappoint by creating another beautiful selection of gardens

Another innovative technology trial to improve the way boilers are managed and fixed.

We're getting involved in Great Big Green Week to encourage and celebrate action taking place across the UK to tackle climate change.  Get involved with us!

We've made it onto the shortlist for the IIP Awards (UK Employer of the Year: Gold) following our assessment earlier this year. 

Our Gas Team has been selected as a finalist for ‘Team of the Year’ at the Direct Work (DW) Awards 2021.

Construction works are well underway and progressing with pace at our ‘Hazlehurst’ development – a new 100-home independent living scheme. 

Ridsdale in Ditton, Widnes has received some much-needed rejuvenation as part of Halton Housing’s Destination Ditton programme. 

Our newly-refurbished visitor reception area is now open at Waterfront Point, our Head Office in Widnes.

Our Innovation Team have scooped the Leeds Beckett University RISE star award in the digital innovation category, for outstanding contribution.

Gas Engineers at Halton Housing have begun installing an innovative push button ‘combi’ boiler-filling valve – the ‘Jepp Valve’ that prevents over pressurising the system and stops gallons of fresh water from being wasted. 

Our Group Chief Executive Liz Haworth will be speaking at this year's CIH Housing Conference in Manchester on 9th Sept.

Changes are coming to the Post Office card account and DWP benefit payments, so we are offering support and advice to customers. 

One of our customers Paul Tunstall, has been successful in obtaining a £500 bursary in the latest round of the Northern Housing Consortium’s ‘Unlocking Success’ scheme!  

If you're a customer or resident of Halton, please complete the Liverpool City Region's Climate Survey to help shape the Net Zero action plan

In response to their fundraising appeal, we have made a £5,000 donation to Citizens Advice Halton to support the relocation of their purpose-built advice centre.

Customers and residents of Halton Lodge joined us for a clean-up day. 

We are thrilled to announce that our ICT Team have gone one step further by achieving Cyber Essentials Plus Certification - the highest level of security certification within the Cyber Essentials programme.

Housing associations across Liverpool City Region including Halton Housing are calling for the £20 uplift on Universal Credit to remain. 

Share your stories, anecdotes, videos, photos, tell us your story for our autumn edition of Reach magazine. 

Condensate Pro will provide maximum protection from frozen condensate pipes during the winter months preventing unexpected boiler breakdowns. 

The Women in Housing Awards celebrates the leaders, innovators and changemakers across the housing sector.

Running from 19th to 25th July, ASB Awareness Week – “Making Communities Safer” aims to highlight the options available to those experiencing ASB, and the work being done to make communities safer.

Halton Housing will welcome highly experienced finance individuals Jennifer Halliday and Leigh Wylie to its board in September.

The closure order was granted to an apartment on Dean Close in Widnes which was ‘plagued’ by anti-social behaviour and drug-related offences.

'Thrive' - a colleague career development programme for aspiring leaders at Halton Housing has launched this week - part of our firm commitment to investing in our people. 

All three are settling well into their roles and are enjoying an opportunity to gain valuable work experience and earn a salary during these difficult times.

This annual event is dedicated to shining a spotlight on safety and compliance at all levels within Social Housing.

Thank you to our customers, friends, and partners who joined us to make the cleanup a success. 

Registered users need to be aware so they don’t miss out on the opportunity to bid on a home.

After achieving Investors in People gold in May, we are delighted to be recognised in the top 20 Investors in People gold organisations.

Sessions are free of charge and enable children in Ditton (aged between 5 - 11) to try sports, arts and develop life skills. 

The award aims to recognise the extra efforts made by all those in the advice sector during the coronavirus pandemic.

Help us on this new exciting project to improve areas near you. Apply now to forward your area. 

We are pleased to announce that the next Destination programme will focus on Halton Lodge, Runcorn and we want you to have your say. 

The laptops will support students with online learning and forms part of our Destination Ditton programme. 

Entries for our popular garden competition for 2021 are now open. 

We will be closed on Monday 31st May for the Bank Holiday, and back open from 9am on Tuesday 1st June. 

We're working in conjunction with Cheshire Police to seek the views of Ditton residents on Neighbourhood Watch schemes.

16-year-old Cameron is living more independently thanks to the installation of a purpose-built through floor lift in his home. 

This year, we celebrate ten years of building homes in Halton and further afield.  This development milestone has seen us deliver almost 1,000 much-needed homes, with a commitment to build a further 1,000 by 2025.

Having the Cyber Essentials certification clearly presents how measures are being taken to protect our organisation.

'Silver Bells and Cocktails' tells the lockdown story of residents of Meadowlands Court, a sheltered scheme who miss their families and friends and are fed up with coronavirus restrictions.

Budding young DJs are enjoying taking part in DJ workshops funded by our Destination Ditton programme. 

10-16 May marks Mental Health Awareness Week, with this year's theme being 'Connect with Nature'. We're encouraging all our customers and colleagues to get involved.  

We're delighted to have retained our Gold Investors in People accreditation following a recent rigorous assessment.

Part of the Homes Directorate, the roles include Planning and Programming Manager, Asset Data Analyst, Compliance Planning Manager and Asset Surveyor.

With the coronavirus lockdown slowly lifting and restrictions being eased, we’re delighted to unveil our new estate  walkabout programme for 2021/2022. 

Two Electrical Maintenance Technicians identified and installed specialist smoke alarms for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

We're working with Michael Page to recruit a Decarbonisation - Strategic Lead. 

Customers receiving Universal Credit are reminded to update their online journal with new housing costs following a change in rent which took effect from Monday 5th April. 

We're recruiting for a Business Admin Apprentice who will play an active role in working alongside and supporting the Health and Safety Team.

We're delighted to launch our first neighbourhood-focussed programme for the Ditton neighbourhood of Widnes. 

We've launched our brand-new website, part of an improved and refreshed digital offer for customers - allowing them to manage their tenancy, access services and interact online with their landlord.

We're delighted that Halton Housing is a finalist in four award categories at this year’s Northern Housing Awards.

We've donated £5,000 to Halton Haven Hospice through a virtual trek to our namesake in Australia. 

Following a change in rules, some state pension age households will now need to claim Universal Credit instead of Pension Credit. 

Customers can now book their own repairs online, via MyHaltonHome and customer app. With increased repair categories to select from and self-help videos available, the experience is much improved for customers.

Estate Services Lead Operative, Keiron Gordon scooped the ‘Young Adult Award’ at Age UK Mid Mersey's Community Kindness Awards 2020.

Don't get caught by a Coronavirus scam

If you're moving home find out what you need to do to ensure you continue to receive your Housing Benefit claim. 

Money Manager tool is designed just for anybody claiming Universal Credit to help them manage their money. 

HELP & SUPPORT: A non-dependent deduction Universal Credit or ‘Housing Costs contribution’ can be deducted from the Housing Costs element of your Universal Credit claim if you have someone aged 21 or over living with you.

Find out how to check if you're entitled to any extra help with welfare and benefits. 

HELP & SUPPORT: We have put together some useful help and support options available if you are experiencing problems paying your rent and worrying about money due to coronavirus.

This International Women's Day 2021 we choose to challenge the fact that so few women are in cyber security roles.

We're proud that two thirds of our Executive Team are female.  This IWD2021, we celebrate our female leaders and share their advice to aspiring female leaders.

We’ve signed up to the National Housing Federation’s “Together with Tenants" Charter.

Help shape the future of your community by getting involved in the 2021 census.

The appointment of a new Director of Customer Experience supports our ambitions to develop a truly customer focused experience for all of our customers.

We're social housing partners in Lancaster University's Future Places Centre (FPC) research on creating sustainable urban environments.

We have been judged the Number 1 digital housing provider by Housing Digital.

We're making welfare calls to our vulnerable customers during February.

We have joined together with the leading funders to the sector to launch the first sustainability reporting standard for social housing.

We have awarded £6,000 to ‘Helping Halton Kids’ to help launch its new mobile community shop concept.

With all three sisters now living at Naughton Fields, they plan to spend even more time together.

From April 2021, customers’ rent will increase by 1.5% (1.6% for shared ownership) – in accordance with government rent setting policies.

We are delighted to have this week received accreditation as a Living Wage Employer. 

We will be presenting as part of a high profile line-up at this year’s Housing Technology conference.

‘Halton2Halton’ launched yesterday at Halton Housing – part of the Big Team Challenge, which will see us taking on the virtual walking challenge of a lifetime – from Halton UK, to Halton in New South Wales, Australia!

This month marks the end of our single largest regeneration of one area in our history. A £29m investment, building 350 new homes over six years.

We have an exciting vacancy for a Digital Marketing Apprentice within our Communications Team

Repairs is one area of our work that gets lots of customers talking!  So, why not share your opinions and suggestions at our newly formed Repairs Forum? 

Repairs is one area of our work that gets lots of customers talking!  So, why not share your opinions and suggestions at our newly formed Repairs Forum? 

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can help you with some of the extra costs if you have a long term ill-health or disability.

Find out what to do if you're in employment and ill or affected by coronavirus. 

We're a Board member of ‘Building Better’, a consortium of innovative housing associations.

Our customers enjoy four non-charging rent weeks per year. In some cases, you'll not be eligible for them either because you're in arrears, you pay rent monthly or by direct debit so you already benefit from this discount.

HELP & SUPPORT: Benefits have changed for those who have a child who is leaving home to study at university or college. 

What you need to know about Carbon Monoxide poisoning

Condensation is the biggest cause of all damp and mould problems reported to us.

Pets in your home - what you need to know.

Keep warm, Keep well - Cold Weather Advice

Reporting rent changes on your Universal Credit journal  

HELP & SUPPORT: Universal Credit gives you complete control of your money – the main difference being that your rent will no longer be paid directly to your landlord. Find out more about Universal Credit and how to make a claim. 

HELP & SUPPORT: Carers Allowance is given to those who spend at least 35 hours per week providing regular care for someone with a disability. Find out more about how Universal Credit affects those claiming Carers Allowance.

Legionnaire's Disease - What you need to know

Cuckooing - What it is, and what to do

How to fix some common problems with your boiler

Don't get taken in by loan sharks

A proof of concept BIM system, bringing together offline assets, rich mapping and data layers to older buildings.

Warm Home Discount Scheme

HELP & SUPPORT: We always encourage customers to tell us straight away if they are experiencing problems paying their rent and there is a range of help available. 

Wood burners and stoves - what you need to know.

Mobility Scooters in Common Parts of Flatted Blocks

We have published our gender pay gap review for 2020, for the third year.

A customer has been successful in obtaining a £500 bursary from the Northern Housing Consortium to help towards the cost of a new laptop.

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We have joined the Board of ‘Building Better’, a consortium of housing associations working together to realise the benefits of modern methods of construction (MMC).