Last week, one of our contractors, R Benson, showed just why they won Social Value Contractor of the Year Award at The Barnet Group’s recent Customer Awards evening on Thursday 12th December. By the following Monday, R Benson had generously delivered a whole sackful of Christmas presents for the women and children living at the [...]
The sad news is, hate crime offences being reported to the police have risen by 10% in the past year. Around 12% of hate crime offences were estimated to have more than one motivation, with the majority of these being both race and religion. Research has shown that hate crime will only increase is [...]
We are delighted to announce that Barnet Homes has taken over a contract that offers general housing support and specialist mental health floating support in the borough. The Outreach Barnet service was previously managed by Notting Hill Genesis whose contract ended on 31 July. Barnet Homes, part of The Barnet Group, will run the [...]
The Hope of Childs Hill (THOCH) marked a successful year since launching its local bike initiative last summer by hosting a visit from The Barnet Group’s contractors Bugler, who officially gave their support by making a contribution to the bike project. As keen supporters of the charity, The Barnet Group, Barnet Council and councillor for [...]
After ten years with The Barnet Group and six of those as Chair of the Board, Terry Rogers retired his position last week. In a final speech at his leaving reception, Terry said he had had a very busy ten years as Chair of The Barnet Group and had seen, and supported, many new initiatives. [...]
To mark Employability Day 2019, we are sharing stories about how various initiatives that The Barnet Group offer to help local people back into employment. This includes our successful apprenticeship scheme which provides a 'learn and earn' element - with apprenticeships available in both Barnet Homes and Your Choice Barnet. Tracey Dillon is one of [...]
For the past 18 months, Barnet Council have been working with its partners to tackle hate crime in the borough, during this time they launched Hate Crime Reporting Centres. There are now nine Hate Crime Reporting Centres across the borough, enabling vulnerable adults and victims of hate crime to report incidents to the Police, and [...]
Education Secretary Damien Hinds kick started National Apprenticeship Week this week with the announcement of a new league table of top apprenticeship employers. Hinds also said that Apprenticeships had been transformed as they are now longer, higher-quality, with more off-the-job training. There are now more than 400 apprenticeship standards available in everything from accountancy to [...]
With just a few weeks to go before National Apprenticeship Week (4-8 March) we got a head start in promoting apprenticeship opportunities here at The Barnet Group at a Post-16 options event. Some of our apprentices for The Barnet Group were on hand at Middlesex University’s Apprenticeships and Post-16 Options night to talk about their [...]
As part of their plans to build Strong, Successful and Shared Communities in the borough, Barnet Council is asking its residents to fill out a survey. Barnet Council wants to further understand how they can help voluntary, community and faith groups in Barnet. Groups like these are vital in helping Barnet build stronger communities, so if [...]