In this edition of Contact magazine We’re on the move – we’ll soon be relocating from Devon place to… The big lunch – Imagine a summer’s day on which millions of us, throughout the UK, sit down to have lunch together Come dine with Charter – Are you a keen cook or would you like [...]
Charter is always looking for ways to interact and build close relationships with tenants so what better way than to prepare, cook and finally eat a meal together! Over the next couple of months Charter has come up with its own version of the popular TV series, ‘Come Dine With Me’. Eight lucky tenants have [...]
Recently, Charter held an older person’s Independence Day at Cefn Glas extra care scheme in Blackwood. The event, themed around the environment, money matters, community safety, health, well being and diversity saw organisations such as Age Cymru, RNIB Cymru and the Pension Service offering advice and information to tenants and representatives from four local authority [...]
The Guarantee for Housing Association Residents has been developed by the Welsh Assembly Government in consultation with Community Housing Cymru and the Welsh Tenants Federation. Its purpose is to advise you about : What your landlord must do to comply with the Regulatory Code. This code was developed by the Assembly in its role as [...]
If you live in Newport we would like to invite you to attend one of the five Community Engagement Workshops the Newport Public Health Team are conducting in partnership with One Newport Local Service Board during the first week of August to consult on the Health, Social Care and Community Needs of Newport residents. The [...]
The Institute of Money Savers (IMA) recently held its Performance Awards ceremony in Harrogate. Although unsuccessful in the ‘Best New Initiative’ category, Charter’s Money Savers Project did receive a ‘special mention’ from the Chief Executive of the IMA who praised the project for having a large impact within a short period of time. The Project faced massive [...]
The group behind the initiative Moneyline Cymru has scooped an award for ‘Ground breaking service team of the year’ at an awards ceremony hosted by trade magazine Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing. They fought off stiff competition from entries from all over the UK and scooped the award for their innovation and [...]
A joint Charter-Warm Wales bid for £1.6m ‘Arbed’ grant funding to carry out energy efficiency improvements to properties in Markham village has been approved by the Welsh Assembly Government. The £1.6m Arbed grant will help to fund a £2.3m programme of energy efficiency improvements to both Charter’s 124 homes and other private/public sector housing in [...]
Charter has secured part of £100,000 from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), a Government initiative, designed to significantly reduce energy use and carbon emissions through the retrofit of an existing house. The house, based at The Turnstiles in Newport was built in the 1980′s is one of 87 social housing units across the UK that [...]
Residents living in Fairview, near Blackwood, will benefit from a community drop in service being launched as a joint initiative between Councillor David Poole of Caerphilly County Borough Council, the local Neighbourhood Policing Team and Newport based Charter Housing, part of the Seren Group. Every three months Fairview community house will host a drop-in coffee [...]
