From maintenance and paying your rent to nuisance prevention, our new tenant sign-up DVD is packed with useful information on living in a Charter home. Learn about our services, see our teams and find out about our communities in this handy guide. We are premiering the film at The Riverfront Theatre & Arts Centre, Newport [...]
This month Charter’s tenant partnership group enjoyed a packed summer meeting at our main office. The Forward Together Panel, (FTP), a group made up of staff and tenants which manages how we involve our tenants, met at Exchange House on 13th July. The packed agenda, which included presentations on time banking, Charter’s Youth Team and [...]
Over 250 tons of unwanted medicines are returned each year in Wales at an estimated cost of £50 million to the NHS. You can help reduce this and allow the money to be used more effectively by following the advice below: Always understand what your medicine is for and how to use it correctly, ask [...]
Do you have a great idea on how we can do things differently? Have you had a brainwave about how we can provide better services to you and to other tenants? If so, why not tell us! We want to hear your suggestions, ideas or brainwaves. It couldn’t be easier to tell us; Tell a [...]
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 [...]
Tenants were recently invited to sit down and watch the award winning film ‘The Age of Stupid‘, starring Pete Postlethwaite. The story tells of a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage of seven real people from the present day and asking ‘Why didn’t we stop climate change when [...]
Winter fuel bills will soon be hitting the doormat and are forecast to have increased by up to 50% following the recent cold snap. This can only lead to an even tighter financial start to the New Year for households. One Newport based housing and support provider, the Seren Group, are aiming to resolve this [...]
Staff members from Charter’s Neighbourhood team and Community Initiatives team joined forces with Communities First and Tidy Wales to co-ordinate a “Community Clean Up Day” at our Grosvenor Road Estate in Abergavenny on 27 February 2010. Following an office briefing session, the team descended onto Grosvenor Road with litter picks, high viz jackets, tea making [...]
Who hasn’t sat at home and thought “I wonder who is cheapest for that?” or “How can I save money on this?” or “I should really look into that, but don’t know where to start?”. Charter now offers a new Money Savers advice service to tenants, saving them thousands of pounds. Andrew Desmond and Michael [...]
