News Piece 20 May 2019

News Piece

W/C 20 May 2019

Gedling Homes and Gedling Response raise £7,010 for Hayward House - p.5 In this edition: We are Neighbourhoods! - Adactus Connect’s new website Reducing our Carbon footprint ... and more.

We are Neighbourhoods!

Following the launch of the Neighbourhood Plans last month – meet the team!

Neighbourhood Engagement team Neighbourhood Plan Delivery Manager Natalie Twomey Neighbourhood Engagement Officers Carolyn Alston Martin Curtis Deanne Clayton Rosemary Grant- Muller Jamie Bell Gemma Bennett Caroline Cox Tina Stephens Tanuja Patel Asmina Choudry Simon Hogg John McGlynn Vikki Barry

Hit Squad Darren Staziker- Hit Squad Supervisor Hit Squad Operatives Liam Rainford Jonathon McMillan Brandon Budworth-Hawkes

The Neighbourhood Engagement team’s role is to deliver community projects and neighbourhood improvements that meet the priorities of our Neighbourhood Plans.

Our work is focused on improving employability, health and wellbeing and reducing the impacts of poverty within our communities.

Each neighbourhood is unique and we approach each one differently but examples of our work include: Employability Providing work clubs, training and enterprise advice Health and Well-being Growing and greening projects, healthy cooking courses, active living, reducing isolation Reducing impacts of poverty Energy advice, affordable food projects, school holidays fun and food The Hit Squad team support our projects through delivering a wide range of physical improvements works, and landscaping. They support work that is part of the Plans and projects that have been funded by the Jigsaw Foundation.

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If you have any queries or requests for the team around community engagement, neighbourhood improvements, energy advice or the Hit Squad please email our team inbox. NeighbourhoodEngagement@jigsawhomes.org.uk

Meet our team!

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Reducing our carbon footprint Are you passionate about the environment?

Would you like to make Jigsaw a more environmentally sustainable organisation?

Adactus Connect’s new website

David Wrigley is leading the delivery of our Environmental Sustainability Strategy and is looking for colleagues to join a group who will guide plans to reduce Jigsaw’s carbon footprint. You should have ideas, enthusiasm and be capable of communicating that passion to colleagues.

A brand new version of the Adactus Connect website launched last week. The new site allows tenants to view their rent account, download a rent statement, report a repair, update their details and contact us about more complex issues.

Contact David (david.wrigley@newcharter.co.uk) if you would like to take part.

We’ve created pages on “your home & maintenance”, “rent”, “tenancy” and “neighbourhood” and plan to develop these pages over the coming months. The site also benefits from a direct link into QL and so the data seen by tenants (e.g. their rent transactions) will be completely up to date.

We are also developing a new version of the New Charter Customer Hub and later in the year both websites will be merged into a single tenant portal for Jigsaw.

If you have any ideas for something that could be developed for inclusion in the tenant portal, please contact Suzannah Robinson in IT.

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Karen Sands and Lisa Aston presenting Marianne Burchell (Corporate fundraising manager) with the cheque.

Gedling Homes and Gedling Response raise £7,010 for Hayward House Thank you and well done to the teams at Gedling Homes and Gedling Response who raised £7,010 for Hayward House last year.

Hayward House, a specialist palliative care unit in Nottingham, was Gedling Homes’s corporate charity of the year in 2018.

Staff at Heyward House provide high quality care centered on the needs of patients and their families. The aim is to enrich the quality of life through the skills of an experienced and caring team. Hayward House offers palliative care from diagnosis, through the interim periods of advancing disease, up to and including end of life care.

Patients’ pain and other symptoms are addressed along with emotional, spiritual and social problems of both patients and their families. A bereavement/counselling service is also provided.

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Eco Fest at St Edmund’s Church Vikki Barry took Jigsaw’s eco-friendly message to the community on Saturday. Vikki, from the Neighbourhood team, spoke to residents at the Eco Fest at St Edmund’s Church, Whalley Range about how they could be more eco-aware.

Vikki also met with The Whalley Rangers who attended the event to promote recycling.

At the event Jigsaw funded a craft stall where the young people could make ‘How to Save the World’ posters. Eco Fest was hosted by St Edmunds Church, Rev’d Grace Thomas.

Dovestone Women’s Institute Dovestone Women’s Institute are looking for your help. One of their monthly missions is to collect for a charity, called Smalls for All. They collect unwanted bras and new underwear for girls and women in Africa www.smallsforall.org If any women would like to donate their pre-loved bras or a packet of underwear or you would like to know more about the charity contact Victoria on: Victoria.Jackson@jigsawhomes.org.uk.

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Vacancies Internal - Please contact the People team to request an application form Allocations Officer Ref: JIG-070 Fixed Term Contract for 12 months Closing Date: 30 May 2019 External – please visit the Group website to apply for external positions.

What’s on?

Monday 20 May

SHE Assure training Think Tank, Cavendish 249 10am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 4pm

Tuesday 21 May

GM Housing First partner event Great Places Head Office, Didsbury 1pm - 3pm

Customer Advisor x 2 Ref: JIG-069 Turner House, Leigh Closing date: 24 May 2019

SHE Assure training Think Tank, Cavendish 249 10am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 4pm

Electrician Ref: JIG-071 Various Locations Across the Northwest Closing date: Will close when position is filled.

ILM Level 2/3 workshop Silver Birch, Cavendish 249 9:30am - 5pm

Starters

Ashley Atkinson Roofer Building Company

Wednesday 22 May

Level 2 & Level 3 Apprentice Workshop Silver Birch, Cavendish 249 9:30am - 5pm SHE Assure training Eccleston room, Turner House 10am - 12:30pm

Thursday 23 May

Leavers No leavers

SHE Assure training Eccleston room, Turner House 1:30pm - 4pm

Staff transfers

Friday 24 May

10 Years Service

SHE Assure training Hamilton Conference Room, Turner House 10am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 4pm

Donovan Greenidge Management Accountant Senior Management Accountant Elesh Makwana Marketing Officer Marketing & Communications

Dress down day Donations optional

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If you want to promote a project through the press, social media, News Piece, newsletters, web, posters, screensavers, award submissions, events or advertising – Marketing and Communications can help.

Please remember: If you’re contacted by the media, it is important that you refer this straight to Marketing and Communications on x2427 (Cav249), x7729 (Turner House) or press@jigsawhomes.org.uk