These 15 stories demonstrate the impact of PlaceShapers’ work to support skills, employment and enterprise.
They’re living proof that believing in and investing in people and their communities pays back – over and over again. PlaceShapers build homes and better lives.
Multi-Skilled Building Apprentice
Newton Aycliffe, County Durham
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Cleaning Business Owner
Swanley, Kent
West Kent Housing Association
Community Investment Manager
Bracknell, Berkshire
Bracknell Forest Homes
Product Operative
Penrith, Cumbria
Impact Housing Association
Construction Trainee
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Red Kite Community Housing
Waste and Recycling Business Owner
Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Grand Union Housing Group
Internal Operative
Preston, Lancashire
Progress Housing Group
Chef
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Cross Keys Homes
School Cleaner
South East London
Phoenix Community Housing
School Caretaker
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Aspire Housing
Community Caretaker
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Ongo
Community Support Worker
Bishop Auckland, County Durham
North Star
Nursery Practioner
Manchester
One Manchester
Customer Service Officer
West London
Shepherds Bush Housing Group
Street Cleansing Worker
Manchester
Wythenshawe Community Housing Group
Placeshapers retweeted Nathaniel Barker
Look at this extraordinary graph. It shows levels of housing overcrowding plotted against COVID-19 mortality rates. https://t.co/EbeLSbjYID
29 May 2020
We are so proud to be working with fab sector partners and the inspiring @CarersUK to launch Harry's Pledge campaign. Webinar TODAY and look out for heaps more in coming weeks about how you can get involved #ClapForCarers #WeCare https://t.co/l1kAPGGh2o
29 May 2020
The first thing we saw people needing was food. But the 'second wave' what people needed was human contact. Social isolation is huge @Issy_taylor77 from @OneMcr
27 May 2020
.@ProgressHG talking about their response, with calls to residents and additional support. Recognising that as anchor organisations we can link people in to other support in the community
27 May 2020
What is the role of community investment in our social recovery from #COVID__19 ? How will we deliver it in a more integrated way? What areas should we focus on? Great questions @AndrewvanDoorn Answers coming up....
27 May 2020
Community investment is so central to our work but so many people don't know about the work we do. It's for us to change that says @AndrewvanDoorn #placeshapersroundtable
27 May 2020
Hear hear: “Instead of a transactional relationship, which sees tenants primarily as a source of income, this crisis has revealed that our sector offers a vital lifeline for people and support for communities,” writes @KateNHF #ukhousing https://t.co/KAFzEWcTPA
27 May 2020
Placeshapers retweeted Anne Duffield
Just watching @BBCNewsnight about Domestic Abuse and the lack of refuge places...one of the reasons in Manchester we have been assisting women that need to move on to permanent homes to free up specialist accommodation. @MWomensAidCEO
26 May 2020
Placeshapers retweeted whg
Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give and whg is giving bags of it to vulnerable children and young people, at a time they need it most. 💛
Read the full story here: https://t.co/nWgB6ZAgA9
#WeCare #WalsallTogether #BeKind https://t.co/XfjwLUQLZv
26 May 2020
TODAY, 10am our roundtable with @HACThousing on the future of community investment. Still time to join us - drop us a tweet or email and we will sign you up https://t.co/lkBP5wqHKB
27 May 2020
Winter 2020 star builders
PlaceShapers Winter Star Builders are the West Midlands, building 9,375 more homes by 2023. more...
PlaceShapers have joined HACT and a number of other organisations in endorsing a set of nine impact measurements that the Centre for Excellence in Community Investment is asking social housing organisations to collect during the Covid-19 crisis.
13 May 2020 more...
PlaceShapers Director Rachael Orr was pleased to be able to contribute to a collection of essays collated by Oxfam UK titled ‘Our Other National Debt: Repaying the people we owe the most after coronavirus’.
7 May 2020 more...
We welcome the opportunity to submit evidence to this enquiry. Our members are key partners for local authorities across the country in providing housing for homeless households and rough sleepers. We offer a broad range of support, including tenancy sustainment. Many are involved in delivering Housing First services across the country.
5 May 2020 more...
Housing associations are beginning to think about life beyond the coronavirus crisis. Our Chair, Sinéad Butters looks at what that might look like.
15 April 2020 more...
We realise that you are all busy dealing with the consequences for staff, tenants and customers of the coronavirus pandemic, however this consultation is still due to finish on 3rd April, 2020.
19 March 2020 more...