Barnet Council is prioritising digitally excluded areas and is working with Community Fibre (and other broadband providers) to ensure that every council home in the borough has access to high-speed fibre broadband by 2025. Find out more about Barnet’s Gigabit Broadband programme at barnet.gov.uk/broadband. Barnet Council is working with Community Fibre to offer free fibre [...]
BOOST have partnered with digital inclusion charity, Good Things Foundation, to give free data to Barnet community members through the National Databank. The National Databank, created in collaboration with Virgin Media O2, provides free mobile data vouchers to people who are struggling to afford their internet connection. BOOST is one of the organisations part of [...]
Interested in a career with Barnet Homes? Apprenticeships are a great way to get started. We are looking for ten people to join our successful annual apprenticeship programme to start in October. You will study for a Level 3 qualification in Housing and Property Management while working in one of our busy teams learning on [...]
STEP Employment Advisor Olesia has been assisting Ukrainian refugee ‘IS’ into work: ‘IS’ is a 31-year-old Ukrainian refugee who has found a new home in Barnet. He holds a Bachelor of Design in Information Technologies and has extensive experience in retail store design, having served as the Head of Design in a retail store design [...]
BOOST is an employment, benefit advice, skills and wellbeing project helping Barnet residents, and is part of The Barnet Group. Since the war in Ukraine last year many refugees arrived in Barnet, and BOOST has set up a special employment project to help them. One of BOOSTs Employment Advisors is Olesia , who herself is [...]
We recently introduced call recording for our Customer Contact Team. All calls to the Customer Contact Team will be recorded except those that concern account enquiries to ensure that we do not record calls where payments are taken. Barnet Homes tenants and leaseholders who wish to make a payment also have the option to use [...]
In line with the recent introduction of the Regulator of Social Housing’s Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs), we need to increase the level of information we hold about our tenants’ protected characteristics such as ethnicity and disability. Having good information about protected characteristics will help make sure that we complete satisfaction surveys with a sample of [...]
How long have you lived in Barnet? I have lived in Barnet all my life and been a Barnet Homes tenant for over 40 years. Tell us a bit about yourself? I am a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother (not revealing my age!) and thoroughly enjoy looking after the babies. My hobbies for relaxation include painting, [...]
Last year’s Finest Flowers competition was fantastic! Our judges visited many beautiful gardens around Barnet and talked to residents who spend time and toil to make their garden space welcoming and improve their health and well-being. One of last year’s winners said, ‘People stop and talk to me when I’m out tending my beautiful front [...]
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the 'Discover and Win' campaign by Barnet Council, aimed at promoting a greener future for our borough. This initiative is a result of the collaborative efforts of the Citizens' and Young People's Assembly, which took place in February 2023. The assemblies brought together young and adult residents [...]
