05/06/2024
On World Environment Day we are celebrating our fantastic Customer Sustainability Champions, who are playing a key role making our homes, neighbourhoods and business greener. The 18-strong group is made up of customers – a mix of tenants and leaseholders - all passionate about helping us tackle c...
05/06/2024
We are delighted to have brought more new, affordable homes to the borough, now our £3.7m scheme of 14 affordable and energy efficient homes in Failsworth is complete. Customers have started to move into the super-green properties built on a former brownfield site on Hardman Street, which had sto...
03/06/2024
Our Directions employment service is now delivering the FREE Support to Succeed coaching programme to people in Oldham looking to make a difference in their lives. Who is the Support to Succeed programme aimed at? Support to Succeed provides individual, one-to-one support for people who are not c...
22/05/2024
Work to make our customers’ homes and communities and our business greener has taken another step forward – we have retained Silver status with improved performance in our annual SHIFT assessment. This is an audit of how we are performing against a series of sustainability targets including carbo...
13/05/2024
We are supporting Stop Loan Shark Week to highlight to our customers and communities the dangers of illegal money lending. This year’s theme is ‘No Blame, No Shame’ for anyone who has borrowed from a loan shark. Illegal money lenders are experts at deception and often pose as a friendly face, win...
13/05/2024
We are buzzing to be bringing more nature friendly zones to our neighbourhoods this month, as we support No Mow May. This is the national movement to make enormous gains for nature, communities and the climate by giving grass cutting a break. If you are passing through our Barker Street or Eldon...
23/04/2024
You will start to see our Grounds Maintenance teams busy grass cutting in your neighbourhoods, as they begin their annual grass cutting programme to keep green spaces looking good through the spring and summer months. Teams are carrying out the first cut of grass in areas at the moment. From May...
22/04/2024
This Earth Day we hear from customer Annette from our Alt neighbourhood, on the difference that energy efficiency improvement work has made to her and her home. She is among hundreds of FCHO customers whose homes have already had green makeovers to help slash bills and make them more energy effic...
10/04/2024
Great news! Today we've taken handover of 22 affordable homes at our Mill Vale scheme, off Don St in Middleton, Rochdale. We visited the 311 home development with constructionpartner Kellen Homes, and Sigma Capital Group to officially mark the milestone handover of the first houses. Once complete...
04/04/2024
Between April and July 2024, Michael Dyson Associates will be visiting 3,000+ FCHO homes across Oldham to carry out stock condition surveys on our behalf. What is a stock condition survey? A stock condition survey is a visual inspection of the inside and outside of your home. It takes no more tha...