News

A neighbourhood of new affordable family homes has been lifted into place, in a first for the Bolton area. Our new 22-home development has been installed on land off Victory Road in Little Lever, after being constructed off-site.

Bolton at Home employees have raised £2,350 for Bolton Hospice through our own ‘tuck shop’. Throughout the year, employees have given donations for healthy snacks and sweet treats provided by colleagues.

The much-loved Fusion community centre in Tonge Moor has re-opened after the completion of recent improvement works, which will help the buidling better cater to hundreds of community members each week.

A campaign launching in Bolton this week will encourage the public to donate to local charities that support vulnerable people, rather than giving money directly to people begging on the street. The Hope for Change campaign will see collection buckets placed in locations across Bolton with all funds raised being distributed to charities that offer frontline support to help people get their lives back on track. It is hoped this approach will help people off the streets for good.

An empty town centre shop in Bolton has been transformed into a community art exhibition to highlight the issue of domestic abuse.

Bolton at Home, alongside local women’s charities Endeavour, Fortalice and Yes Matters, have come together to transform the window of the former jewellery shop in Crompton Place into a gallery of handcrafted artefacts.

The ‘real Living Wage’ is the minimum amount per hour that accredited employers pay their employees over the age of 18. It will increase by 30p to £9.30 (£10.75 in London). This will be £1.09 per hour more than the current statutory National Living Wage for people over 25. At Bolton at Home, we’ve voluntarily paid people more than the real Living Wage for years. Last November, we were officially recognised as a Living Wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.

We gave Bolton at Home Board members, local ward councillors and the local MP an insight into how shared ownership will help more people onto the property ladder, as they viewed 14 new homes under construction at Guild Street in Bromley Cross.

A spectacular projection show this weekend (25-26th October) is set to be the finale of this year’s Diwali celebrations in Bolton.

Communities from across the local area have come together as part of the first Diwali on the Square celebration to create a stunning display of artwork which will be projected on the front of Bolton Town Hall.

Bolton at Home has helped 317 tenants and residents into employment, taken on 53 apprentices and spent more than £25m in Bolton over the last year.

Those were among the statistics revealed last night when Bolton at Home hosted an event to report on its ‘social value’ impact...

Our second edition of 'Quarter Turn', our new printed newsletter has been sent to around 3000 tenants who live in our sheltered and extra care housing, or who receive Careline.

If you’re a Bolton at Home tenant, it’d be great if you could fill out a short survey by following this link: https://bit.ly/338E3DL. We’d like you to tell us how reasonable you think our timescales are for visiting your home to carry out emergency, urgent or routine repairs. Also, the most convenient times and days for us to visit you from Monday to Saturday. Fill out the survey and go into a prize draw for vouchers. The survey will be open until Monday 21 October 2019.

Families in Breightmet, Bolton, are set to benefit from new affordable homes that have been given the go ahead. We have been granted planning permission to build 69 new affordable homes on land off Withins Drive.

Read about how Jamie Moore (our Marketing and Communications Coordinator) returned from his two-week volunteering experience with a completely new perspective, along with how you can do the same with our Foundation for the Future charity.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of a new chair and deputy chair to our board. Ian Munro has been elected as the new chair, while Ibrahim (Ibby) Ismail has been appointed deputy chair.

Our Tenancy Sustainment and Support Apprentice Michael Hutchings talks all about his fortnight in Romania in his latest blog as an Erasmus+ EuroApprentice ambassador.

Housing providers Bolton at Home and Irwell Valley Homes have been granted planning permission for 118 new affordable homes close to Bolton town centre. The homes will revitalise a derelict former car park off Chorley Street with work expected to start on site before the end of September. 

Katy Henry (our Project Management and Business Development Apprentice) was given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to volunteer in Romania last May and talks all about it in her latest blog as an Erasmus+ EuroApprentice. 

We have submitted a planning application jointly with Watson Homes, one of our development partners, for 68 new properties that would be situated on land off Withins Drive. The homes would offer a mix of two and three-bedroom houses and one and two-bedroom apartments, all of which would be made available for rent at affordable levels.

We applied for planning permission to build 48 quality affordable homes on land off Singleton Avenue in Horwich. Here we answer questions about the proposed development.

Bolton at Home has signed-up to a newly launched national scheme to help people overcome harmful gambling. Signing the charter means we'll make a commitment for our policies, support and training to address gambling-related harms in the workplace. We will also go beyond the employer-employee scope of the charter and roll out support for the wider community too.

Tenants and residents are invited to enjoy a family festival with a difference this weekend – as the Willow Hey Festival in Farnworth returns for a third year.

A group of more than 40 local organisations have been praised at a national awards ceremony for working together to make a difference to communities in Bolton.

We deliver a wide range of support services to help tenants and residents be independent and to help communities be sustainable. These include supporting Hoot, Bolton’s credit union, to offer fair loans and secure savings. Read-on for information about the Beat the Heat campaign during Credit Union Awareness Week.

This relates to Hotpoint, Indesit, Swan, Proline and Creda tumble dryers manufactured between April 2004 and September 2015.

A group of more than 40 Bolton organisations that work together to improve the town and strengthen communities has been nominated for a highly-regarded business award. The Bolton Family – made up of business, housing, regeneration and voluntary sector organisations – has been named a finalist in Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Awards 2019.

We are proud to be named as having the ‘most inspiring apprenticeships programme’ at the annual Inspire Awards, which celebrate inclusion and diversity in the UK housing and construction industry.