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07/08/2024
Our £4m scheme of 16 new affordable and eco-friendly family homes in Middleton has been completed, we’re delighted to share. The super-green properties have transformed a brownfield site off Oldham Road. The family dwellings are part of our development strategy to ensure people living in the comm...
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06/08/2024
Our partnership with our building supplies provider Wolseley Managed Services has reached new heights, with an enhanced contractual agreement which will directly benefit our communities. The new contract agreement sees social value commitments equating to thousands of pounds, with Wolseley pledgi...
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05/08/2024
Our ‘Budding Neighbourhoods’ competition returns for 2024 to celebrate our green-fingered customers and your home and gardening efforts Our online-only competition runs from today, Monday 5 August, until 5pm on Friday 23 August 2024, and customers entering are once again asked to showcase your pl...
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26/07/2024
Earlier this year, we were delighted to team up with the National Trust to take part in the Sky Gardening Challenge. A pilot competition which encouraged customers who live in our Barker Street and Eldon Street estates, as well as other residents across Greater Manchester neighbourhoods, to trans...
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23/07/2024
Our latest Tenant Satisfaction Measure results are out now – see how we are performing. What are Tenant Satisfaction Measures? The Regulator of Social Housing requires all social housing providers in England, like FCHO, to gather and report on 22 Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs). These include...
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09/07/2024
We have appointed Mark Gifford to the role of Chief Executive of First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO). Mark will join our organisation, which owns 11,500 homes in Oldham and surrounding areas, in the autumn. He brings with him many successful years of senior leadership experience in both the public a...
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08/07/2024
Work to make the final houses at our West Vale scheme watertight is complete and the first kitchens and bathrooms are being fitted, we are pleased to share. This keeps us on track for completion of this part of the scheme in the autumn. We are working with main contractor, Caddick Construction to...
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17/06/2024
We are sharing important messages for smokers who live in our neighbourhoods, to help keep them safe from fire in the home. It’s a shocking fact that smoking is one of the top causes of accidental fires in the home, and the number one cause of accidental fire deaths in the home.Keeping customers...
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10/06/2024
It is Carers Week and this year’s theme is ‘putting carers on the map’. We want to get a conversation going about the vital work that carers of all ages in our community do to support family and friends who couldn’t manage without their help, and how we can assist customers and colleagues who wor...
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07/06/2024
Delivering homes we are proud of and improving lives is what we are all about and we are delighted to have invested £51 million and built 124 new affordable, sustainable homes in the financial year 2023/2024 to tackle the shortage locally. In addition, 324 homes across 11 projects are already on...