Our payment system will be upgraded over the weekend of 12th – 14th May 2023. This means that all of our online payment channels will be unavailable from 10pm on Friday 12th May until 10pm Sunday 14th May. Customers will still be able to make payments at the Post Office, Payzone and PayPoint outlets.
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We are pleased to be the first housing provider to offer its housing colleagues with the opportunity to complete a formal ‘Housing Professional Passport’ qualification. 14 GCH colleagues are currently studying the six-month long course, developed by Kingdom Academy and designed in response to the Social Housing White Paper’s professionalisation review and the forthcoming introduction
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There are 8 new 1- and 2-bedroom homes available for shared ownership in Whittle Square, Brockworth.These brand-new maisonettes have allocated off-road parking and great transport links. They are also within walking distance of lots of local amenities.You can buy from 25% to 80% of the property and pay a low monthly rent on the part
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We were delighted to support Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and the local community to ‘green up’ Barton Street. The nature highway with its colourful mural is on a little pocket of land owned by GCH. We were more than happy to give our blessing to the project and we have plans to green up many more
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We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Housing Heroes ‘Employer of the year’ award! Charlie Morefield, Director of People, Culture and Communications comments “At the heart of our organisation and its successes are our people, therefore a great colleague experience and being an employer of choice is very important to us. We are
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You may be entitled to up to 3 Cost of Living Payments of £301, £300 and £299 if you get any of the following benefits or tax credits on certain dates: income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Income Support Pension Credit Universal Credit Child Tax Credit Working Tax Credit When
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Gloucester City Homes will invest £3.9 million to improve the energy efficiency of around 130 homes in Gloucester, with the help of a government grant worth £1.5 million. GCH was part of a consortium bid to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, led by Stroud District Council and including
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From 1st April, GCH will bring its grounds maintenance contract in-house. Up until now, the contract has been outsourced. So why is this good news for tenants? Estates Manager Joe O’Riordan says: “No-one knows and loves our communities like GCH. Because our new grounds maintenance contractors will join our existing PropertyCare team, we can
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New committees reporting directly to the Board of Gloucester City Homes (GCH) will ensure the customer voice is strengthened. Following a recent recruitment campaign, four new committee members have joined the newly formed Customer Experience and Homes & Communities Committees. They join two GCH customers who already sit on the Board, made of up 12
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New rules which require everyone to have photo identification in order to vote in person might have an impact on some of our customers. There will be a wide range of photographic identification which will be acceptable, including: Various concessionary travel passes PASS cards Ministry of Defence identity cards Photocard parking permits issued as part of
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Registered Address: Railway House, Bruton Way, Gloucester GL1 1DG. GCH is a charitable Community Benefit Society Registered Number 7041 and a non-profit registered provider of social housing Registered Number 4584 regulated by The Regulator of Social Housing.