Your Choice Barnet offers specialist care and support to adults with a diverse range of support needs. We enable people to live their lives as they wish, giving them support they need to become as independent as possible. We offer: London Living Wage (as a minimum) Additional benefits such as store vouchers Sites across Barnet [...]
Opendoor Homes, The Barnet Group's registered provider of social housing reached another milestone recently, with the 600th home being let to residents. The homes are a mixture of new developments built by Opendoor Homes, and those acquired on the open market. From a standing start in 2016, this remarkable growth means that long-term homes have [...]
Barnet Get Online Week takes place on Monday 22nd – Friday 26th August 2022. To celebrate the week, Barnet Council, BOOST and community organisations will host a series of events and workshops to showcase different resources available to residents who may be struggling to get online. Our aim is to provide residents with the necessary [...]
Entries for our 2022 Community Awards are now open! This year we want to recognise and truly thank all our residents that have gone above and beyond in supporting their fellow neighbours across our communities. We also want to take the time to appreciate the hard work of local community groups and the voluntary sector [...]
Barnet Council Leader, Cllr Barry Rawlings, led a ground-breaking ceremony for 217 new affordable homes including 75 extra care homes in Hendon last week, Tuesday 12 July. The affordable homes scheme at the Upper and Lower Fosters estate was co-designed with residents, neighbours and local community organisations to decide what to build, where and how. [...]
This week we received the good news that Aico and Barnet Homes were chosen as winners in the Computing Magazine Digital Technical Awards for their partnership in fire safety works in Barnet. The winning case study was the roll-out of a planned programme of fire safety measures across approximately 15,000 properties in Barnet Homes' and [...]
Earlier this year, The Barnet Group supported Art Against Knives (AAK) with a donation to their crowdfunding campaign, to enable them to keep doing their incredible work to stop knife violence in our area. After reaching their target, AAK sent us a little video to say thank you. They said: "Thank you, thank you, thank [...]
Hosted by The Barnet Group's Head of Community Engagement Tim Blanc on 21 June at 6.30pm. This event will take place online. About this event The training will cover: • What is community development • Understanding the needs of a community • Gaining information and identifying gaps • Analysing community problems and finding solutions • [...]
Earlier this year, we shared the news that Bumblebee, The Barnet Group's private lettings agency had supported the Live Unlimited Charity with a donation of £5,000. We can now share how that donation supported 680 of Barnet's looked after children. Outdoor Club Live Unlimited's Forest School sessions have got 6-17 year olds outside with [...]
It gives us great pleasure to be able to share with you the winners of our 2021 Community Awards. Below, you can find out who the winners are, and the nominations they've received from their community. It has been another year of great change, and one that has had a real effect on the [...]