Fairoak Newsletter Winter 2025-26
The latest Fairoak newsletter is here! Read the latest stories, news and updates from us and our tenants!
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Annual Report to Tenants 2024-2025
Once again it has been a very busy and exciting year for everyone involved with Fairoak and the annual report includes information on what we have been doing in the past 12 months and plans for the year ahead.
Fairoak Newsletter – Winter 2025
We hope you are having a great new year and are looking forward to spring. You’ve all been involved in lots of activities and events since our last newsletter and we know there are many more exciting things coming up in 2025.
Fairoak Newsletter – Autumn 2024
As we head into the colder winter months, we wanted to remind you of some of the great activities you have done over the summer of 2024.
Celebration Event Marks a Milestone for Fairoak
Fairoak Housing Association is celebrating a significant milestone as 2024 marks our 20th anniversary.
Annual Report to Tenants 2023/24
Once again it has been a very busy and exciting year for everyone involved with Fairoak and the annual report includes information on what we have been doing in the past 12 months and plans for the year ahead.
Good Lives Manifesto Pledge – Pippa Smith, Labour
Pippa Smith is the Labour party candidate for Westmorland & Lonsdale who has agreed to support the Learning Disability England’s Good Lives Manifesto and Pledge Card. But rather than just sending her response, asked if she could come and meet us.
Fairoak Attains Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
Staying safe online is something we talk about regularly with our tenants, but it’s also something that we at Fairoak take very seriously ourselves, and this is why we recently embarked on the lengthy process to become Cyber Essentials Plus certified.
Good Lives Manifesto Pledge Card – Candidate Responses
Alison and James have been contacting candidates standing for the Westmorland & Lonsdale constituency in the General Election to ask them to pledge their support for an accessible election – here you’ll find their responses.
Making Our Mark on Independence Day
With a General Election coming soon, we want to help ensure the voices and opinions of people with learning disabilities and autism are heard, and everyone gets to cast their vote to decide who governs our country.
Access to Healthcare
The Fairoak Owls discussed the barriers they face when accessing healthcare, something which they and many other people with a learning disability or people with autism often experience.
Tenants’ Residential at Kepplewray
It wasn’t so long ago that we were enjoying the late summer sunshine on our tenants’ residential at Calvert Lakes near Keswick, and it was obviously something that everyone enjoyed given the number of requests we had for another holiday just like it.
Place on the Tenant Advisory Panel for Lily
A Fairoak Housing Association tenant has achieved a place on a national housing advisory panel and has already made it clear that the voice of tenants with learning disabilities and supported housing is going to be heard.
Home Visits
Throughout each year, our Housing & Support Officers visit every tenant in their home a minimum of four times. The purpose is to check and physically inspect every property to ensure that they are safe and in a good state of repair, whilst taking the opportunity to catch up with our tenants and their support staff.
Providing the Keys to Happy, Healthy Homes
During the second half of 2023, Fairoak undertook an exercise to re-define our core purpose, the reason why we exist as an organisation and the purpose for all our activities.
Eyes in the Sky Keeping our Homes Safe and Dry
It’s always reassuring to know that the roof over our heads is going to keep us and our home safe, warm and dry. But with over 110 tenants living across the North of England, checking the roofs of all Fairoak properties is no small undertaking and something which we’ve called upon a specialist contractor to…
Fairoak 2023 – Our Review of the Year
Before we’re too far into 2024 we have taken the opportunity to look back on the year gone by and reflect on what was another memorable year for both Fairoak and many of our tenants alike. New Properties With the assistance of a Homes England grant, Fairoak developed and adapted a three bedroom property near Workington, Cumbria,…
Fairoak Tenants’ Christmas Party
There was plenty of festive fun for all as around 50 Fairoak tenants and support workers from across Cumbria enjoyed the annual Christmas party.
New Kitchen Unveiled at Sandy Lonning
There’s a fresh face in the Fairoak offices, and that’s the latest recruit to our team – James Arnold! James joined us in October and has been incredibly busy getting to know our tenants and finding out more about their homes and requirements.
We welcome James the Fairoak Team!
There’s a fresh face in the Fairoak offices, and that’s the latest recruit to our team – James Arnold! James joined us in October and has been incredibly busy getting to know our tenants and finding out more about their homes and requirements.
Fairoak Welcomes Councillors on Starts at Home Day
Fairoak welcomed councillors from Westmorland and Furness Council as part of the National Housing Federation’s Starts at Home campaign.
Fairoak Representation at the House of Commons
Fairoak chief executive Lisa Chant was invited to be part of a delegation at the Houses of Parliament, advocating the need for greater supported housing for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
Fairoak Newsletter – Spring 2023
It’s been a while since our last newsletter but we’re delighted to bring you our latest edition with a lovely new design.
National Award for the Fairoak Team
At this year’s prestigious Housing Heroes Awards, held at Manchester Central, Fairoak Housing Association were the recipients of a Team of the Year Award.
Fairoak Newsletter – Spring 2022
It’s been a while since our last newsletter but we’re delighted to bring you our latest edition with a lovely new design.