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Working in Partnership
Through developing effective
partnerships, we have grown from a small rural association with 800
homes, to a leading regional group with more than 17,800
properties. Joint ventures and partnership working helps us
to pool expertise, share risks, widen markets and manage
growth. We’re renowned for our expertise, professionalism and
integrity, that’s because we focus on working with people and
organisations that share our values and welcome our
input.
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Longhurst Group was one of the first associations nationally to
voluntarily sign up to the WRAP campaign that aims to ‘Halve waste
landfill by 2012’. Recognising the massive impact construction
waste has on the environment and taking corporate social
responsibility seriously Longhurst has been able to recycle most
waste and begin the journey to significantly reducing landfill.
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Thanks to a partnership between Friendship
Care and Housing and the Government’s SureStart scheme, mums in
Birmingham’s Sparkbrook area have been given the opportunity to get
back into work and education through the provision of much needed
and affordable childcare.
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Founded in 2005 by Longhurst Group and
Nottingham Community Housing Association, the Blue Skies Consortium
now consists of 16 members and is still going strong, as Nick
Worboys, Assistant Director of Development, explains in the
company’s newsletter.
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The ENable partnership (East Northamptonshire
Local Strategic Partnership) is a local strategic partnership that
works on and delivers a number of priorities. Julie Doyle, managing
director at Spire Homes and chair of ENable, explains how the many
organisations involved have been able to make an even greater
impact within the local community.
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Longhurst & Havelok Homes has begun a
pioneering project with Nottinghamshire Police against crime in a
problem area of Worksop. Their combined effort has been so
effective that it has been nominated for a national award.
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Spire Homes has taken steps to support tenants
with debt, job or money worries, by working in partnershipwith the
Citizens Advice Bureau and JobCentre Plus.
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The development team at Longhurst Group wil be working with the
Centre for Sustainable Architecture and Environments at the
University of Lincoln to create a new generation of eco-friendly
homes.
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The decision that led a small but dynamic housing
association in the Midlands to decide to join Longhurst Group.
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From modest beginnings 10 years ago, we have grown into one of
the largest regional housing groups in the country but have worked
hard to retain the essential qualities that mark us out as
different.
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