AR Welcome to our
Annual Report 2015 - 16
118 empty homes, beating the
target of 135 and achieving a 20 day turnaround for relets
HOMES LIMITED Part of the New Charter Group
43,127
people used the
Home and Community Hubs
Achieved
Delivered training to
435 people
1x 9x 22x
neighbourhoods
Dealt with 277 ASB cases
ASB
March 2016
saw the start of the affordable homes programme
Independent Living delivered 1,290 activity sessions with over
10,000 people attending
Green Charter achieved 97% customer satisfaction for low cost gardening service
95% tenant
satisfaction with repairs
100% of properties meet Decent Homes Standard
TO RENT We built
105
new homes
aksa homes Part of the New Charter Group
Ended year with
Helped 117 people into paid or voluntary work
297 people accessed Supporting People service at Gibson Terrace Secured grant to build 70 homes in Bury DATE
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3 empty
properties with an 18 day turnaround for relets
Supported 32 active
Tenant and Resident Associations
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Became 1st housing provider to achieve HQN Estates reaccreditation My Career
The Oldham Coliseum
Teaching Theatre Programme
has helped tenants improve their career prospects.
Commercial & Partnerships 31% of customers were prevented from becoming homeless.
i 678 customers were prevented from becoming homeless
19 referrals
to Healthy Minds
Knowlsey Housing Options dealt with
30% reduction
households
in the number of households in temporary accommodation
135 households with full homeless duty were discharged
Hospital Discharge Project dealt with 197 referrals
1,676
8 Trust/Grant applications successfully received
12 escalations to child protection
3 evictions prevented
Received 746 referrals
18 families supported, focusing on school readiness for the child/children attending Silver Springs
669 hours of staff time in the public service hub
146 children
711 female 32 men referred to 224 people received the service court support
Supporting People Homeless contract Gibson Terrace, Lyne View and Waterton Lane
received support around the impacts of A record number 297 domestic abuse households accessed the service
274 (92%)
moved through in a planned way
56 customers accessed the Opening Doors project to learn tenancy skills
Delivered a total of ÂŁ4.9million worth of improvements to properties Launched the
Provided
St Andrew’s
ction: isfa t a 99%
2x 5x
Achieved
100%
satisfaction rate for the Lifeline Service
Extra Care Facility opened
Customer s
Achieved
98.2%
ction: isfa t a 98%
Customer s
services to over 870 customers
project
Stock decency level of
Over 600 tenants engaged in
2x
Out of 9 neighbourhoods
with condition of their property when let
with
activities
99.91% of repairs completed right first time.
1300
Fitted over new central heating systems.
100% of voids returned to use within target, 69% earlier than target
91% of work now completed by
Calendar
appointment, an increase of 4% on 2014/15.
Achieved total turnover of £25.8 which is
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£1.6m ahead of budget.
Successfully completed £804K worth of new builds in 2015/16.
9% 91.57%
Achieved less than waste to landfill – over of site waste recycled.
Customer Satisfaction: 96% for all
investment works. 95% for responsive repairs
Over £85m external work completed since inception. Retained ISO14001 Environmental Certification, CHAS and RoSPA Gold Award.
BEST VOID
Our performance yet
Successfully bid
to establish a new service in Stockport as part of the Targeted Prevention Alliance
Delivered 21,989 hours of support
Sleep Out 2016 raised over £4,877 Forced Marriage Protection Orders granted for
23 young people.
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Hosted 14 guests from Norway to show them how we support ex-offenders
Became an active member of the GMP ‘Honour Based Advisory Board’
Gained recognition from Business in the Community North West (BITC)
57 Homeless preventions
Early Help
supported over
400
households to maintain BITC
independence
Our People Have responded to over
250,000
calls
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Achieved RoSPA Gold at Building Company and Gedling Homes
troduced In
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2* rating for Outstanding levels of employee engagement
GOLD
Achieved GOLD rating by Investors in People
on all
Connect calls
GOLD
3,700 We came
34th
in the Introduced an
Out of Hours Social Media service
training days were delivered
Silver Springs Academy
finalists in the NGA Outstanding Governance Awards.
Silver Springs new school build
New Charter Sixth Form achieved an overall A-level pass rate of
97% and 100% of students received university offers
19%
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The percentage of Copley students achieving five A*- C in GCSE’s (or equivalent) including English and Maths increased by 19%
•Tameside Radio, Tameside Reporter, Glossop Chronicle and insidetameside.com •23 full time staff and 58 volunteers •Tameside Reporter celebrated 160 years in print. •More than 250 students participating in our Journalism Media Enrichment programme •Dozens of local students provided with work experience in the media industry •More than 100 outside broadcasts delivered over the last 12 months.
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Financials Group Statement of Comprehensive Income
Group Statement of Financial Position
31 March 2016
31 March 2016
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Turnover
103,189
Value of investment in our housing stock
542,893
Operating expenditure
(77,940)
Value of investment in our offices, IT, etc.
15,037
Operating surplus
25,249
Cash at bank and money we are owed less purchases not
Surplus of sale of properties
557
Net interest payable
(22,026)
Taxation for the year
(144)
Surplus for the year after tax
3,636
40,369
paid at the year end
598,299 Borrowing from loan facility
371,644
Other long term liabilities
52,816
Accumulated reserves
173,839 598,299
RTB/RTA sales generating a surplus – 58 units. Capitalised major works for the year - £11,756k.
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Rent losses from voids - £1,308k. External income generated by the Building Company - £2,457k. % of rent collected net of Housing Benefit owed to accounts: New Charter Homes - 100.08% Aksa Homes -100.54% Gedling Homes - 100.11% - Group -100.11% For our full performance information, please visit www.newcharter.co.uk
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New Charter Group Cavendish 249 Cavendish Street Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7AT
0161 331 2000 @NewCharterGroup contact@newcharter.co.uk www.newcharter.co.uk