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Gloucester City Homes held its Annual Community Impact Day following a year off due to the Pandemic. The day which was held on the 10th September sees over 150 staff turn their hands to community projects. On the day improvement works took place at The Cathedral, Widden Primary School, Heron Primary School, The Venture playground, […]

GCH is proud to be supporting Gas Safety Week running from 13th – 19th September. Coordinated by the Gas Safe Register, Gas Safety Week seeks to raise awareness of gas safety and the importance of taking care of your gas appliances. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and

Lloyds Bank are offering free resources, seminars and training courses aimed at individuals and charities across a wide range of topics – digital inclusion, financial education, money management, CV writing, back to work skills and more. This is being done through their Lloyds Bank Academy. They are running two sessions in September as part of

The 2nd September saw the Fountain Square Community brought together for the first time since before COVID-19 as GCH held a Summer Celebration Event. The event invited members of the Fountain Square Community to come and enjoy a hot meal, either Chicken or Butternut Squash Curry provided by The Long Table, enjoy live music and

Starts at Home Day will see housing associations up and down the country celebrate supported housing and the positive impact it makes on thousands of lives. This day of action is central to the Starts at Home campaign, which has a simple but important aim – to ensure that people who need extra support  have

Joint statement by Asif Bhatti, Chair and Ashley Green, Chief Executive – Gloucester City Homes Asif Bhatti, Chair of Gloucester City Homes has today announced the retirement of Chief Executive, Ashley Green at the end of March 2022.  Asif paid tribute saying “Naturally, we are very sad to see Ashley leave us, he has been

From the 1st September 2021 the DWP will no longer make payments to Post Office Accounts. The best way to receive your payments going forward will be direct into a bank account, this gives you much more control over your money. It is really important that those with a Post Office account create a bank

What is the EU Settlement Scheme? Following Brexit, All EU, EEA (EU and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), Swiss Citizens and their non-British family members who were residents in the UK before 31 December 2020 needed to apply for a new immigration status through the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) in order to continue to live lawfully

We are working with a company called CityEnergy to survey and carry out energy efficiency work to some of our homes across the City. Before any appointment CityEnergy will contact you via letter to provide you with an appointment, if this is inconvenient for you please let them know so that a better time can

Gloucester City Homes is pleased to have held its second community impact project of 2021. Following on from work at Robinswood School in July, staff have also completed outdoor transformations in the Kingsholm area.  On the 20th August a team of 15 GCH staff turned their hand to gardening in Kingsholm, creating new beds with roses and bulbs and planting and tidying overgrown areas