During Mental Health Awareness Week, we asked colleagues to share examples of selfless kindness that they've seen or been a part of. We're so proud of the people who work at The Barnet Group, and the way they've responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's some examples of kindness colleagues have seen or been a part [...]
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The Barnet Group's service for older people, Ansell Court has been shortlisted for a Housing Design Award. Ansell Court is a dementia-specific, housing with care development comprising 53 one and two-bedroom apartments and communal facilities. The development is situated in a prime location in Mill Hill, offering easy access to a range of local amenities. [...]
The 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day – 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and 25 years after the genocide in Bosnia – will be marked in Barnet on Sunday 26 January. The commemoration will be at the Rickett Quadrangle within Middlesex University in The Burroughs, Hendon, NW4 4BT. The memorial service will begin at 2.30pm [...]
Service users from Your Choice Barnet's CommunitySpace service helped transform a Christmas tree at All Saints' Church in Childs Hill. All Saints' Christmas Tree Festival gives local people or organisations the opportunity to sponsor and decorate a tree, raising vital money for local charities. So when The Barnet Group agreed to sponsor a tree, it [...]
Barnet Homes development aprters Bugler has donated three fotball kits to Basing Hill Community FC, through it's Bugler Foundation arm. Andy Bugler delivered the kit to Anthony Dawodu of The Hope of Childs Hill (THOCH), who organised the foundation of the football club for local boys and girls from 6 – 14 to develop [...]
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 Barnet Group is pleased to announce that Eamon McGoldrick has been appointed as our new chair. Eamon has over 40 years’ experience in housing management, having started at the Greater London Council as a management trainee in 1977. He has worked extensively across housing in north London, and was Chief Executive of Homes for [...]