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 [...]
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 [...]
Representatives from Charter’s Tenant Participation and Moneysavers teams were out in force at The Priory Centre, Abergavenny, recently taking part in the launch of the Monmouthshire Financial Inclusion Partnership. The partnership consists of Charter, Melin, Monmouthshire Housing, the Citizen’s Advice Bureau, Gateway Credit Union as well as a number of other organisations, who work across [...]
Builders, Leadbitter, organised a series of site visits for children from two local primary schools in Pill. 240 children have visited the site to date, with more visits planned in March 2010. Leadbitter has also set up ‘construction corners’ at both schools. The children learned about construction work and were educated about the dangers of [...]
In November 2009, local people had the opportunity to meet members of the Mariner’s Quay project team to find out more about this exciting new development being built on their doorstep. Held at the Pill Millennium Centre, people could view development plans and artist’s impressions. Staff from Charter and Fairlake were on hand to explain [...]
A Youth Foundation pilot scheme was launched in February, involving eight teenagers who had been excluded from school. The teenagers all showed an interest in construction and the aim of the pilot was to find them work in the community, such as painting over graffiti, repairing fences etc, they will then cost the project, tender [...]
