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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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,…