STRATEGIC REPORT

Building great partnerships

We’re committed to improving our customers’ lives, but we know we can’t do it alone. We work with many brilliant organisations in the communities we serve to enhance the support we give our customers and the opportunities available to them.

 WATCH Fallon Warren, our Head of Environment and Sustainability, and Mustafa Mustafa from Morgan Sindall, discuss how our partnership approach is bringing the SHDF programme to fruition.

We’re committed to improving our customers’ lives, but we know we can’t do it alone. We work with many brilliant organisations in the communities we serve to enhance the support we give our customers and the opportunities available to them.

 WATCH Dan Sly, a single parent whose dream of getting onto the property ladder was made possible thanks to one of our Rent to Buy homes.

By building new and enhancing existing strong partnerships, we can do even more to improve the lives of our customers, the homes in which they live, and the communities we serve. Voluntary groups and community organisations do some brilliant work, while our more formal partnerships with developers, contractors and local authorities are critical to helping us deliver our strategic development aims.

In the last year, our partnerships with various housebuilders and organisations have gone from strength to strength with contracts being agreed on a number of new developments including adding to our successful partnerships with Allison Homes, which will see more than 120 new, affordable homes being delivered across Lincolnshire. Our partnerships with the National Digital Inclusion Network and others continue, meaning we’ve carried on supporting customers who are unable to afford simple things such as broadband and mobile phone data.

While we want to do things the Longhurst Group way, we’re always looking to find new partnership opportunities which will benefit our customers and their communities.

Working with our contractors, we’ve also delivered additional social value to our communities, with educational programmes, labour and engagement activities all part of our offer to our customers. While we want to do things the Longhurst Group way, we’re always looking to find new partnership opportunities which will benefit our customers and their communities.

By building new and enhancing existing strong partnerships, we can do even more to improve the lives of our customers, the homes in which they live, and the communities we serve.

Voluntary groups and community organisations do some brilliant work, while our more formal partnerships with developers, contractors and local authorities are critical to helping us deliver our strategic development aims.

In the last year, our partnerships with various housebuilders and organisations have gone from strength to strength with contracts being agreed on a number of new developments including adding to our successful partnerships with Allison Homes, which will see more than 120 new, affordable homes being delivered across Lincolnshire.

While we want to do things the Longhurst Group way, we’re always looking to find new partnership opportunities which will benefit our customers and their communities.

Our partnerships with the National Digital Inclusion Network and others continue, meaning we’ve carried on supporting customers who are unable to afford simple things such as broadband and mobile phone data.

Working with our contractors, we’ve also delivered additional social value to our communities, with educational programmes, labour and engagement activities all part of our offer to our customers.

While we want to do things the Longhurst Group way, we’re always looking to find new partnership opportunities which will benefit our customers and their communities.

Keeping customers connected

A successful funding bid to Good Things Foundation has meant we’ve been able to continue our vital work and keep our customers connected. The latest funding partnership has allowed us to process and distribute even more data in the form of pre-loaded SIM cards and WIFI-enabled items to those customers who can’t afford expensive phone and broadband contracts or top-ups. Without this crucial digital access, these customers would have been prevented from accessing essential services or educational courses. In addition to data gifting, we’ve also continued to donate devices to our most in-need customers, which has meant they’ve been able to complete coursework, job applications or essential household tasks online. Thanks to these partnerships, dozens of customers in digital poverty have been given a helping hand. Over the last 12 months, we donated 131 devices or data packages to our customers. These included laptops, mobile phones and tablets and pre-loaded SIM cards. In total, 178 people benefited from these donations. In one home, three members of the household benefited, from an adult who found better-paid part-time work, to another adult who was helped with their self-employment and an older child who was able to complete online schoolwork.

ABOVE We’ve been able to donate more than 130 devices and data packages to customers in need thanks to our various partnerships.

Keeping customers connected

A successful funding bid to Good Things Foundation has meant we’ve been able to continue our vital work and keep our customers connected. The latest funding partnership has allowed us to process and distribute even more data in the form of pre-loaded SIM cards and WIFI-enabled items to those customers who can’t afford expensive phone and broadband contracts or top-ups. Without this crucial digital access, these customers would have been prevented from accessing essential services or educational courses. In addition to data gifting, we’ve also continued to donate devices to our most in-need customers, which has meant they’ve been able to complete coursework, job applications or essential household tasks online. Thanks to these partnerships, dozens of customers in digital poverty have been given a helping hand. Over the last 12 months, we donated 131 devices or data packages to our customers. These included laptops, mobile phones and tablets and pre-loaded SIM cards. In total, 178 people benefited from these donations. In one home, three members of the household benefited, from an adult who found better-paid part-time work, to another adult who was helped with their self-employment and an older child who was able to complete online schoolwork.

ABOVE We’ve been able to donate more than 130 devices and data packages to customers in need thanks to our various partnerships.

Working with partners to build more homes

Our partnership with Allison Homes continues to go from strength to strength. Since announcing our plans to build 121 affordable homes on Manning Road in Bourne, our partnership has grown and we’re now currently on site, or have already delivered, a total of 276 new homes. These homes are located in four key local authority areas, strengthening our portfolio and helping us to make homeownership achievable for even more of our customers. But it doesn’t stop there, with further developments in the pipeline. Once these also come to fruition, our partnership with Allison Homes will have delivered 435 homes across a mix of tenures and meeting a range of housing needs. The value of this alliance has exceeded £80 million in the last year alone, and we’re confident it’ll continue to grow as we achieve our shared ambition to play our part in delivering a solution to the housing crisis. We also continue to work alongside other organisations including Freebridge Community Housing, MAN Group and LACE Housing and utilise Homes England funding through our Strategic Partnership to make our development ambitions a reality.

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Homes completed or started through our partnership with Allison Homes

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Total number of homes to be delivered in partnership with Allison Homes

Working with partners to build more homes

Our partnership with Allison Homes continues to go from strength to strength. Since announcing our plans to build 121 affordable homes on Manning Road in Bourne, our partnership has grown and we’re now currently on site, or have already delivered, a total of 276 new homes. These homes are located in four key local authority areas, strengthening our portfolio and helping us to make homeownership achievable for even more of our customers. But it doesn’t stop there, with further developments in the pipeline. Once these also come to fruition, our partnership with Allison Homes will have delivered 435 homes across a mix of tenures and meeting a range of housing needs. The value of this alliance has exceeded £80 million in the last year alone, and we’re confident it’ll continue to grow as we achieve our shared ambition to play our part in delivering a solution to the housing crisis. We also continue to work alongside other organisations including Freebridge Community Housing, MAN Group and LACE Housing and utilise Homes England funding through our Strategic Partnership to make our development ambitions a reality.

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Homes completed or started through our partnership with Allison Homes

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Total number of homes to be delivered in partnership with Allison Homes

Supporting youth services

Our commitment to supporting successful community groups and projects is perhaps demonstrated best in Walsall. The Beechdale estate is within one of the most deprived areas of the town, so we recognise how important it is to ensure the provision of services for young people to keep them engaged. The Frank F Harrison Community Association works incredibly hard to achieve this and we’re proud to partner them in their efforts. That’s why we funded a Youth Support Worker post throughout the last year.

In that time, more than 500 young people engaged with the programmes on offer and were taken off the streets and into an environment where they could learn new skills, socialise and thrive.

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Young people engaged through Frank F Harrison Community Association

Supporting youth services

Our commitment to supporting successful community groups and projects is perhaps demonstrated best in Walsall. The Beechdale estate is within one of the most deprived areas of the town, so we recognise how important it is to ensure the provision of services for young people to keep them engaged. The Frank F Harrison Community Association works incredibly hard to achieve this and we’re proud to partner them in their efforts. That’s why we funded a Youth Support Worker post throughout the last year.

In that time, more than 500 young people engaged with the programmes on offer and were taken off the streets and into an environment where they could learn new skills, socialise and thrive.

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Young people engaged through Frank F Harrison Community Association

CASE STUDY

Sharing our knowledge

We’re working closely with several delivery partners as part of our Homes England Strategic Partnership programme as we aim to deliver more than 1,800 new homes by 2026. One such partnership is with Freebridge Community Housing, based in King’s Lynn. As part of this relationship, we’re supporting Freebridge with various aspects of technical and practical support on a number of developments.

CASE STUDY

Sharing our knowledge

We’re working closely with several delivery partners as part of our Homes England Strategic Partnership programme as we aim to deliver more than 1,800 new homes by 2026. One such partnership is with Freebridge Community Housing, based in King’s Lynn. As part of this relationship, we’re supporting Freebridge with various aspects of technical and practical support on a number of developments.