Mariners Quay wins prestigious UK Sustainable Housing Award At a special environmentally friendly awards ceremony held in London last week, Mariner’s Quay in Newport scooped the UK Sustainable Large Housing Project of the Year award, sponsored by United House. The Sustainable Housing Awards were organised by Inside Housing magazine and its sister publication, Sustainable Housing. [...]
People across the Gwent Police area (Monmouthshire, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Newport) can now use the 101 non emergency reporting service on Looking Local, making it easier for you to report incidences through your TV (Sky and Virgin) and smartphones. To take advance of this free and simple service, see below… Access the Looking [...]
The Forward Together Panel (FTP) is never shy of shouting about its success and this month the group had the opportunity to share its experiences with tenants from across the border. The Panel welcomed tenants and staff from Westward Housing’s Strategic Overview Group (SOG) to Charter’s head office in Newport. Westward Housing, which has homes [...]
Where would you be without access to the internet? It’s estimated that 30% of people in Wales are digitally excluded, having no access to a home computer, broadband, and do not know how to use the facilities generally available. Charter encourages tenants to make the most of the internet, and this year Digital Inclusion Officer [...]
Newport City Council along with Charter Housing and other registered social landlord partners in Newport are pleased to announce work towards a common housing register and policy in Newport is moving ahead very well. We have planned an extensive programme of training for staff, residents and partners in the early part of 2012. This will [...]
Young people from a community in Newport have been treated by Charter to a sports event to warm them up for half-term fun, with help from Newport’s Sports Development team, who provided referees. Last weekend Charter’s Youth Team put on a football tournament for youngsters from Harlequin Drive and Barrackswood, Newport in the estate’s multi-use [...]
Without listening to our tenants’ views, we can’t improve our service. Ensuring that tenants get involved in what we do is important to us at Charter, and that’s why we have the Forward Together Panel, our staff and tenant partnership group. The Forward Together Panel meets every two months to review how Charter works with [...]
This autumn, Charter is running a programme from the Active Learning for Residents course; Community in Action level 2. This course is for tenants who want to learn more about housing and the communities that they live in. The qualification they earn can then build towards a NVQ. Five Forward Together Panel members are taking [...]
There are 10 2-bedroom apartments being developed above the new library in Abercarn. Apartments are on the first, second and third floor with level access showers in all bathrooms. There will also be a secure door entry system and lift, with off road parking. Weekly rent starts from £61.00 plus service charge. To be eligible [...]
Charter‘s Forward Together Panel have won an award, helped organise a tenant fun day and fast-tracked their IT skills! It’s been a busy year for Forward Together Panel (FTP) – and this month they were able to spill the beans on their success. At September’s Welsh Tenant Federation conference in Llandridnod Wells, four FTP members [...]
