The Barnet Group Community Awards 2022
Last week, on the evening of Thursday 26 January, 180 guests gathered at a gala dinner and dance to celebrate the winners of the Barnet Group’s Community Awards. The nominations for these awards have been submitted by Barnet Homes and Opendoor Homes residents, staff, volunatary and community partners from across Barnet who wanted to acknowledge those [...]
Bumblebee supports Live Unlimited charity with £5,000 donation
Bumblebee, The Barnet Group’s private lettings agency, has supported Live Unlimited with a £5,000 donation; helping the charity continue its crucial work in supporting Barnet’s looked after children and care leavers. The donation, which contributed to Live Unlimited’s Big Give Christmas Challenge, was part of over £21,000 raised which will go directly to supporting looked [...]
The Barnet Group’s Key Achievements – 2022
We are very pleased to share our Infographic of The Barnet Group’s key achievements in 2022. We hope you will find this interesting, informative and helpful to understand how The Barnet Group is contributing to helping better people's lives in so many ways.
The Barnet Group and Travis Perkins team up to deliver £7k of financial management courses to residents
As we all feel the impact of the cost of living crisis, The Barnet Group are offering our residents the chance to attend a free Money Saving Tips Workshop. The sessions are three hours long, and the fun interactive workshop will provide tips and advice on making savings or accessing funds that may be available [...]
Wolseley Group invest £4k to support Age UK Barnet home energy checks for older residents in Barnet
Together with Age UK Barnet and Wolseley, we’re pleased to be offering free home energy checks for older Barnet residents. These checks can help residents make their homes more energy efficient, something which will be crucial this winter. Funded by Wolseley, this programme will see Age UK’s handy people visiting homes which residents are [...]
WG Wigginton brings fruit to Sheltered housing and Care Homes
It may be winter, but that doesn’t mean our green-fingered contractors can’t get to work early in planning for the summer. Our partners WG Wigginton have been busy over the last few weeks, donating and planting five types of dwarf fruit trees in our care homes, sheltered housing schemes and Your Choice Barnet services. Led [...]
New development milestone for Opendoor Homes
Opendoor Homes has recently completed 52 new homes at Hermitage Lane in Childs Hill; a landmark scheme delivering homes for affordable rent, market sale and shared ownership. Working with development partners Hill, this is the first scheme where homes for market sale and shared ownership have been built by Opendoor Homes, as well as increasing [...]
BOOST and Barnet Homes star in NFA report
Our work, training and benefits advice service BOOST are one of the star case studies in the National Federation of ALMOs recent report, Building Opportunity: How social housing can support skills, talent and workforce development. The report shines a light on the great work being done by social housing organisations to help their communities thrive. [...]
Barnet’s First Black-led Black History Month Celebration
Barnet’s Black History Month Celebration, the first of its kind, in collaboration with The BREM Network, CommUNITY Barnet, Aid Excel, Centre of Excellence, and Living Way Ministries, was well-received by all attendees, with a complete program of music, dance, and poetry. The Barnet Group are proud to be one of the main sponsors for this [...]
Fourteen new homes completed at Summers Lane
The Barnet Group is delighted to announce that it's Registered Provider of Social Housing, Opendoor Homes, has completed fourteen new homes for affordable rent on Summers Lane, N12. Now with well over 600 homes in its management, Opendoor Homes continues to deliver much-needed housing for Barnet residents. At Summers Lane, a large plot of land [...]
A message from CEO Tim Mulvenna on the death of Her Majesty the Queen
I am sure everyone across The Barnet Group was profoundly saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral yesterday afternoon. We join with everyone across the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the entire world in expressing our deep sorrow for the passing of a truly remarkable monarch. Our thoughts and [...]
Do you have what it takes? Jobs in care and support with Your Choice Barnet
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 [...]
Another milestone reached for Opendoor Homes
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 2022
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 [...]
Enter our Community Awards now!
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 and Barnet Homes start work on 217 new affordable homes
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. [...]
Aico and Barnet Homes scoop Computing Magazine Digital Technical Leaders Award
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 [...]
A big thank you from Art Against Knives
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 [...]
Training – Understanding Community Development
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 • [...]
Bumblebee donation helps looked after children prosper
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 [...]
2021 Community Awards Winners
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 [...]
Dell Field Court achieves ‘Good’ CQC rating
Dell Field Court achieves ‘Good’ CQC rating Your Choice Barnet’s Dell Field Care Home was recently inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. The full report has been published on the CQC’s web page and can be found at Dell Field Court (cqc.org.uk) During [...]
The Barnet Group’s 2021 Community Awards
Our Community Awards give us the opportunity to celebrate all those who made such a massive difference to our communities in 2021. So sit back, grab the popcorn and find out who our worthy winners are! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWQD-DoAktY
National Apprenticeship Week – Our stories
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, and we're sharing some of the stories of our people who have been apprentices at The Barnet Group and have now gone on to full time employment. Here, Stella tells her story: "I knew in Sixth Form that university wasn't for me and I wanted to apply for an [...]
Meadowside Care Home achieves ‘Good’ CQC rating
Your Choice Barnet's Meadowside Care Home was recently inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), The independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. Full details of the report can be found on the CQC website: http://www.cqc.org.uk/ The report from the inspection has now been published and the service has been awarded an [...]