Category: Neighbourhood

 
 
General, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 02/03/2020
25 ex-military personnel homed by Jigsaw Group

As part of Jigsaw Group’s commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, since 2018 the Group has helped house 25 ex-military personnel in its homes across the North West. The Armed…

 
Jigsaw Foundation, Jigsaw Rewards, Neighbourhood, Photo Task, Scrutiny | 05/02/2020
Jigsaw Rewards – have your say and earn rewards

Jigsaw Rewards is our innovative online tenant engagement programme that encourages our tenants to provide regular feedback on services and plans for the future. The website (rewards.jigsawhomes.org.uk) allows you to…

 
Jigsaw Foundation, Jigsaw Rewards, Neighbourhood | 22/01/2020
Jigsaw Foundation funding for Pennington House

Jigsaw Foundation has awarded £2,400 worth of funding to the Pennington House Residents’ Group. The funding will enable the residents to have valuable social evenings and trips out throughout the…

 
Development, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 06/01/2020
Jigsaw Group help ‘Beat the January Blues’

Jigsaw Group has teamed up with Lane End New Beginnings to co-fund the Intact Centre’s ‘Beat the January Blues’ project. The Intact Centre, based in Preston, is a hub for…

 
Jigsaw Rewards, Neighbourhood, Scrutiny | 23/12/2019
Tenants scrutinise Fire Risk Assessments

The Jigsaw Rewards Scrutiny Panel recently met at our Ashton-under-Lyne office for their second scrutiny meeting of our Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs). The purpose of this meeting was to discuss…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 19/12/2019
Taking training to our communities

The Neighbourhood Engagement team have recently completed accredited and non-accredited training with 22 residents in our communities. They offer training within community settings to enable residents to learn together in…

 
Neighbourhood | 12/12/2019
Residents receive home energy support

On one of the coldest day of the year so far, the Neighbourhood Engagement team teamed up with Groundwork and Gorton community grocers to provide home energy support to local…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 29/11/2019
Autumn in Action finale

Last week saw our Autumn in Action finale with clubs, creative activities and social events. Our Neighbourhood Engagement team certainly warmed up the season as they brought a range of…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 19/11/2019
Autumn in Action weeks 2 & 3 round up

We’ve now completed weeks 2 & 3 of Autumn in Action and our Neighbourhood Engagement team have been out in our communities, delivering a wide variety of events and activities…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 12/11/2019
Neighbourhood Engagement team support 25 residents into work

Since April 2019, Jigsaw Group’s Ashton-under-Lyne Work Club has helped to support 25 unemployed residents secure paid employment. This was achieved by the Group’s Neighbourhood Engagement team working in partnership…

 
In Your Area, Jigsaw Foundation, Neighbourhood | 06/11/2019
Jigsaw Foundation funding boosts LINK Project.

Jigsaw Foundation has awarded £12,860 to the LINK Good Neighbours Arts and Activities Project. The project is run by Rusholme, Fallowfield and Moss Side Good Neighbours CIO group. Several Jigsaw…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 01/11/2019
Neighbourhoods team get Autumn in Action

Our Neighbourhood Engagement team takes pride in our neighbourhoods and wants to work with residents and partners to achieve our mission of “Creating homes Building Lives”. The team will be…

 
General, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 28/10/2019
Good Neighbours Days resume

Last week our Good Neighbours Day resumed with the first event being held in Wigan on Wednesday 16 October. These events are a great opportunity for prospective residents to meet…

 
Gardens & Allotments, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 17/10/2019
Ridgeway Street Wellbeing Garden opens

The Ridgeway Street Wellbeing Garden is now open to residents at the Ridgeway Street Community Garden.  Manchester Urban Diggers and North Manchester BUZZ community health service opened the Wellbeing Garden…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 03/10/2019
Primary pupils poised to teach benefits of recycling

Neighbourhood Engagement Officer, Gemma Bennett, held a recycling workshop at St Stephen’s Primary School in Preston to support Recycle Week 2019. The school has its own eco-council of 14 children…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 01/10/2019
Hyde residents ready to recycle with app

Our Neighbourhood Engagement Officer, Tanuja Patel, teamed up with Engagement Officers from TMBC  in Hyde recently to engage with people about recycling in the area as part of Recycling Week…

 
General, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 27/09/2019
Neighbourhood team support Tameside Autumn Jobs Fair

The Neighbourhood Engagement team, working with Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC) and Job Centre Plus, helped to plan and took part in the Tameside Autumn Jobs Fair held at Dukinfield…

 
General, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 25/09/2019
Putting the pride back in Hyde

The Litter Hubs Project is now running across the Hyde area. Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council’s (TMBC) Operations and Neighbourhoods Service have supplied equipment so individuals, local groups, big or small…

 
General, In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 14/09/2019
Braving the weather to support local families

The Neighbourhood Engagement team, in partnership with the Smallshaw-Hurst Children’s Community (affiliated with Save the Children), braved the rain five weeks in a row when delivering activities for families across…

 
In Your Area, Neighbourhood | 05/09/2019
Pennington House residents get crafty

Every Thursday afternoon at 2 pm, residents from Pennington House, Leigh, have been hosting craft sessions, with many other local residents coming down to the communal lounge to take part….