Goodbye Everyone
Sharon McCambridge says goodbye before she retires as Chief Executive after 12 years at Six Town Housing.
Winners announced for the Energy and Money Saving Tip Competition
Last month, we ran our Energy and Money Saving Tip Competition where we asked you for your top energy and money saving tips, to help with the colder months and the cost-of-living increase.
After receiving 110 entries, we picked 3 submissions at random to receive one of three cost effective household appliances: a slow cooker, air fryer or an electric blanket.
Welcome to our monthly Spill the TEA updates
Our dedicated team of Tenant Engagement Advisors (TEA) work across our neighbourhoods to support communities to thrive. They are an experienced and energetic team and are keen to work with you to help make a huge difference to the communities you live in.
Here are some of our March highlights:
Meet our Tenant Engagement Advisors
Meet our dedicated team of Tenant Engagement Advisors who work to make communities across Bury a better place for tenants.
We're issuing free sim cards to those who have insufficient internet access
Six Town Housing are a community partner of Good Things Foundation and have joined their National Databank.
We have a number of free sim cards and vouchers to issue to those who meet the criteria and find themselves in need of data and are provided by O2, Vodafone and Three.
Free Health and Safety Course
During this 1-day Health and Safety course, learners will develop a greater understanding of health and safety issues, including: health and safety laws, risk assessments and risk control hierarchy, identifying and controlling risks from common workplace hazards and more.
Thursday 30th March, 10am – 3pm, at Six Town Housing, 6 Knowsley Place, BL9 0EL. You can book a place via the link below.
Radcliffe Food Club
Radcliffe Food Club is set up to support people who are struggling to afford food as well as reducing food waste.
It costs £5 for a yearly membership then just £3 per visit to receive around £10-£15 worth of groceries.
Located at Bridge Community Church, Radcliffe, M26 1WD, it's open every Wednesday between 10am - 12pm and 6pm - 7:30pm.
Our first Menopause Event was a success!
Jane and Emma, who are both accredited Menopause Support Coaches, and Shelley from Bury Leisure services ran the first Menopause Café Drop In this month at Brandlesholme Community Centre. The drop in was there to support women through their journey, make them aware of the symptoms and what support is out there for them.
One visitor said, “I loved it and what a good turnout! Jane and Emma did great and can I say the addition of Shelley was a great idea and we all had a great time. I would love to see you be a permanent session possibly on a monthly basis as it is clearly a topic that many need help and advice with.”
We plan on running more of these Drop Ins in future so keep your eyes peeled for the next one!
Job Fair
Bury Millgate Job Centre are hosting a Job Fair on Wednesday 29th March, 10am – 1pm. For more information, please contact your work coach.
Kitchens and bathrooms
This photo was submitted by Victoria Wright in Ainsworth who had her new kitchen installed as part of the capital works programme. If you have a new kitchen, why not send us a photo to news@sixtownhousing.org and we may include it in a future edition.
View details of ongoing and upcoming capital works at the link below.
Tackling Tenancy Fraud
We take tenancy fraud incredible seriously at Six Town Housing. It results in valuable housing being misused and depriving families and those in need of housing to have a place to call home. Help us make sure that the people living in our homes are legally entitled to be there.
Tenancy fraud can include not using your house as your main home, subletting and not declaring who is living at your home.
Any information you give us will be treated in the strictest confidence and your identity will be protected.
You can make your report anonymously but to help our investigations, please give us as much information as possible. The more information that we have the better the chance we have of stopping it.
