The Branch - September 2017

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Autumn 2017

Manchester Student Homes’ Good Neighbours Team has worked in partnership with our accredited landlords and agents to create our first edition of The Branch, for the new academic year. Mindfulness: Use it in everyday life Written by Josh, Luxome, MSH Accredited Agent.

Firstly, in the past few weeks Manchester has welcomed over 80,000 students to the city. During Welcome Week we ran a fantastic programme of social responsibility and community activities in partnership with Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Police, MSH Accredited Landlords, The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University departments, to help students settle in, become good neighbours and get to know their new home. We have put together a motion photo gallery, please watch here.

Whether

you’re working a 9-5 graduate job or studying towards a degree, mindfulness is a great way to lower stress levels, improve your focus, decrease your emotional reactivity and improve relationships with others and with yourself. Mindfulness allows you to clarify in yourself that you can handle whatever is going on around you in your life, the good or the bad. As much as mindfulness can seem to be an easy thing to incorporate into everyday life, it isn’t always as straightforward as it can appear. One of the hardest hurdles is actually remembering to actively incorporate mindfulness into a daily routine. The busyness of daily life can make it easy for us to forget to practice mindfulness, when in reality this is the perfect time to use it! Luxome’s top 5 tips for complete mindfulness: 1.

Create reminders for yourself

The Importance of Welcome Packs

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Make mindfulness an everyday practice

Written by Sean, Floorspace, MSH Accredited Agent.

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Keep the noise down and avoid distractions

A welcome pack with information tailored specifically to the

4.

Be grateful and show gratitude

house ensures a tenancy begins with confidence. As landlords, this ensures your property is being used correctly and safely. The perfect welcome pack should include instructions for all appliances in the house with annotated photos, location of meters/fuse box and emergency contact numbers. Combine this with general policies, tips to reduce condensation and pests along with improved energy efficiency tips and being responsible tenants. Keeping this information with your welcome pack means it has a higher chance of being taken in. The best way to make sure that you are including all the relevant information is to firstly ask your current tenants what they would want included in their pack.

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Make a point to plan out your day

Manchester Student Homes (MSH) is a free, university-run housing service for students. MSH runs a landlord accreditation scheme and offers support to students in relation to property searches, providing housing advice and contract checking. MSH also works with students, long term residents and partner agencies to respond to issues in off campus areas.


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