Adactus Housing Group

We will be publishing our annual report for tenants later in the year. This is the seventh of a series of articles about developments in the year just finished. We would like your feedback to help prepare our annual report. The Adactus mission is to achieve QED in everything we do. D stands for diversity. Promoting diversity is a daily reality with our tenants coming from a wide range of backgrounds, with different circumstances and varying needs. We know it’s …

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Kids in the Chorley area are set for a soccer filled summer holiday with the news that Freestyle Urban Soccer is running its pioneering street football programme throughout the school holidays. The scheme, sponsored by Chorley Community Housing (CCH), will run daytime football sessions every weekday from 1pm. Participation is free and children of any age can take part. Paul Maloney from Freestyle Urban Soccer said: “We will be putting on soccer sessions every Monday to Friday during the school …

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We have been doing a lot of thinking recently about sheltered housing. What it looks like, what the services we provide are like, what will the client group be like in five, ten, fifteen years? When I came into social housing in 1980 some of the unpopular sheltered schemes I had to manage had bed-sitting room flats with communal toilet and bathing facilities on the corridors. These became so unpopular that by the end of the 1980s they were being …

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Residents at one of our Supported Housing Schemes at High Street, Lancaster, have successfully bid for TV equipment for their communal lounge through the Adactus Housing Association’s Neighbourhood Fund. The equipment will enable the residents at the supported scheme to relax and enjoy shows together with friends and neighbours rather than watching in their flats alone. Chris Richardson, Neighbourhood Development Officer at Adactus Housing Assocation said “The residents at High Street deserved to be rewarded for the work they put …

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A £50,000 pot of money set aside by Chorley Community Housing (CCH) for neighbourhood regeneration has been overwhelmed by bids. The fund, now in its second year, has received over 40 applications totalling almost £130,000. Now tenants from CCH are getting ready to judge the bids and decide where the cash should be spent. CCH Neighbourhood Officer Chris Richardson said: “We could spend this year’s Neighbourhood Fund almost three times over. It’s very pleasing that we’ve had so much interest …

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