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As colleagues and customers come together to join the Pride in Gloucestershire celebration in Gloucester Park on Saturday 9th September, Gloucester City Homes (GCH) has shown its commitment to promoting an inclusive community by signing the HouseProud Pledge, joining numerous social housing providers to demonstrate commitment to LGBTQ+ resident equality and support.  Backing the campaign and making […]

Today is Starts At Home Day, highlighting the role supported housing, and indeed housing, plays in helping people to live their best lives, to be healthy and to retain or gain their independence.  At Gloucester City Homes we work alongside some of the people in our county with the most complex and challenging circumstances including older

The winners of GCH’s 2023 Garden Competition have been revealed. Best Private Garden was awarded to Marissa Organ for her commitment to sustainability.  Best Balcony Garden was awarded to Nicholas Hayward.  Kevin Patterson won Best Communal Garden and £100 of gardening vouchers, thanks to our generous sponsors Safpro Winner of the Public Vote was Philomena Gammon for her eye-catching

A £130m finance package has been agreed by GCH with Natwest, which includes £30m in new funding. The deal significantly extends the level of commitment from NatWest, in terms of both loan maturity and funding amount, extending £100m in existing loans for 10 years. The additional £30m commitment will allow GCH to continue delivering important

Door wedges, folded up cardboard, pencils and… a spoon. Just some of the items our team found wedging open the doors during our quarterly fire door inspections. “Fire doors are there to protect the safety of everyone living in the building” explains Tara Jones, GCH’s Compliance Manager. “If a fire breaks out, the doors are

Our Customer Annual Report covering the 2022-23 financial year is now available.  GCH is working to ensure everybody has a home they can be proud of, where they can thrive and be healthy. In this report you can read about what we have achieved together with customers, the impact we’ve had at both an individual

We have started works to improve the energy efficiency of around 170 of our homes between 2022 and 2024. The programme, worth £5.8 million, has been boosted by government grants worth £2 million. Investment is being made in external wall cladding and ventilation upgrades to help cut carbon emissions and improve the health and wellbeing

Citadel House in Stroud which provides a safe space for homeless people and their pets has been shortlisted for Best Supported Housing Development at the Inside Housing Development Awards. The Inside Housing Development Awards celebrate the very best residential developments across the UK over the past year – and share learning more widely. The awards

We are recruiting for customers to join our Scrutiny Group. This is your chance to influence and improve GCH services and make sure your customer voice is heard. To find out more, call Mandi Holt on 07852 915077 or email Mandi.Holt@gch.co.uk Watch the video of Scrutiny Group member Lisa to see what’s involved

Today is ‘Let’s Talk About ASB’ Day. To get the Big Conversation started, we’ve put together a Kahoot quiz. There are ten examples of the types of behaviour that have been reported to our Neighbourhood management team. You have to decide if they are anti-social or not.  Good luck! Take the ASB Awareness Week Big