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| Arts for Youth - Annual Evaluation for 2009-2010 |  | | East Potential receives funding from London Councils to deliver Arts for Youth, a programme that aims to reduce offending and anti-social behaviour amongst young people aged 11-24. more... |
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| Ocean residents make a splash at estate regeneration launch | | | Over 300 residents from Ocean Estate in Tower Hamlets came together on Saturday to celebrate the launch of a £200million regeneration programme, which will see their estate transformed into a larger, more vibrant community. more... |
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| `The Story of Stratford` - local pupils document the progress of Westfield Stratford City | | | A New Direction presents a FREE family-friendly exhibition of young people`s creative work celebrating `The Story of Stratford` - a partnership project with Westfield Stratford City - at East Thames Group`s `East Gallery`, Stratford. more... |
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| Making a Difference Awards 2010 - The People`s Choice | | | Nominations are now open for the People`s Choice Award 2010. Who will you nominate? more... |
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| East Thames invites you to have your say | | | East Thames is holding a resident conference to discuss how you can get more involved and have your say on the way we work. more... |
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| Young people set to explore early 20th century art revolution | | | A group of young people from east London will be given a unique opportunity to get involved with a major London art and design exhibition thanks to a grant of £24,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). more... |
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| What is the cost of high density housing in London? | | | With land at a premium in the capital, and the ongoing need for more affordable homes, developers of social housing have increasingly built more homes in smaller areas. more... |
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| Coming soon to East Gallery - The Story of Stratford | | | East Thames is hosting the Story of Stratford exhibition - a larger than life, interactive art installation, displaying work produced by pupils at Colegrave Primary and Stratford School. more... |
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| Changes to our resident involvement approach | | | Resident involvement has always been important to us at East Thames. It`s important because we want to make sure that you have your say and help shape the way we work, while we learn how to improve our services and work more effectively. more... |
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| Your views wanted! Out of hours call handling services. | | | To ensure that our residents can report emergency repairs 24 hours a day, we have been looking to award a new contract for the provision of out of hours call handling services. Out of hours call handling is the service that takes phone calls when the East Thames contact centre is shut (after 8.30pm during the week, after 12.30pm on Saturday and all day on Sunday and bank holidays). more... |
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| Affordable new homes approved for former waste site in Romford | | | Romford is set to receive 78 new affordable homes, after local housing association East Thames Group received planning approval earlier this year for their Crow Lane development. more... |
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| Newham youth workers swap knowledge with the far east | | | A group of Newham youth workers have travelled to Beijing to see first hand how community and youth work is delivered in the two very different cities connected by the Olympic legacy.
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| East Thames a three time winner in eco-retrofit competition | | | Three homes owned by social landlord East Thames Group will be given a energy efficient make-over, as part of the Technology Strategy Board`s `Retrofit for the Future` competition. more... |
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| Easing the squeeze in east London | | | East Thames Group is tackling one of the biggest issues affecting social housing - overcrowding - and having some success. more... |
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| Hackney-born actor returns to east London to meet young filmmakers with Olympic hopes | | | Hackney-born actor Adam Deacon, star of Kidulthood, Adulthood and Shank, presented a film festival in Rainham, celebrating the work of young filmmakers from east London and Essex. more... |
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| Innovative scheme gives older homes a greener future | | | Reducing carbon emissions and cutting heating costs for people who live in older homes is a major challenge for the UK housing industry, with more than a quarter of the UK`s carbon dioxide emissions created by households. more... |
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| HCA visits Ocean Estate to check out work underway | | | The regeneration of the Ocean Estate was under inspection this week when Jonathan Martin, head of area for East London at the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) paid a visit. more... |
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| Newham residents open doors to employment | | | Residents from Cranberry Lane estate in Newham are a step closer to securing a job, having graduated from East Potential`s Open Doors course. The course gives people the skills and confidence needed to look for a job, and it is being funded through the Families Together project. more... |
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| Youth workers in Newham and Beijing join forces to build stronger communities | | | Members of East Potential`s local foyer team met community workers from Beijing this week in Newham, as part of a global community exchange programme that will see them share experiences and ideas on building community cohesion around the Olympics. more... |
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| East Thames appointed as National Training Awards Ambassadors | | | East Thames is proud to be a National Training Awards Ambassador, appointed by UK Skills. more... |
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| National arts centre for the disabled gets new supported housing | | | A national arts centre specialising in work with disabled and disadvantaged groups will get nine new supported housing units as part of a £6.2 million expansion. more... |
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| Landmark 'Grand Union Place' development in Stepney wins prestigious housing award | | | A landmark 500-home affordable housing development in east London has won a top industry award for meeting local community needs, recognising its success in turning a derelict site into a thriving and diverse community. more... |
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| Social enterprises celebrate their 'Starting Point' in Barking | | | In the past two years more than 70 social enterprises and community groups in Barking have got off to a great start thanks to an innovative purpose-built facility called Starting Point. more... |
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| East Thames' 'try before you buy' scheme wins at innovation awards | | | East London based housing association East Thames Group has won a top award for its innovative Rent Now, Buy Later scheme, recognising its commitment to helping first-time buyers get on to the property ladder. more... |
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| 360 first-time buyers get on the ladder with Rent Now, Buy Later | | | One year on from its launch, 360 families and individuals have taken the first step towards affordable home ownership through East Homes' Rent Now, Buy Later scheme. more... |
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| East Thames a 'sparkling' winner at National Training Awards | | | An East London and Essex based housing association has been awarded for its `sparkling` approach to staff training and development at the prestigious Greater London National Training Awards 2009, scooping two awards for its commitment to using training to improve services for its customers. more... |
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| Housing Options Open Day | | | Are you looking to move homes? Find out more about what housing options are open to you at our Housing Options Open Day on Saturday 31 October. more... |
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| East Thames turns 30 - message from June Barnes, Group Chief Executive | | | This year we`re celebrating our 30th anniversary, and much like a real birthday, we`ve been reflecting on our past and looking towards the future we want. As an organisation we have changed significantly, but the thing that hasn`t changed is our focus on engaging, serving and empowering local people. more... |
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| Making a Difference Day | | | Staff at East Thames Group recently traded their computers and desks for paint brushes and shovels as part of `Making a difference day` to celebrate the group`s 30th anniversary. There was a mass exodus from the Group`s Stratford headquarters as teams of staff took on improvement works at a range of East Thames housing and community schemes in east London and Essex. more... |
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| East Thames celebrates great London architecture with Open House | | | Leading east London housing group East Thames is opening up its award-winning headquarters in Stratford for the first time as part of Open House London. On September 19th visitors can take a free guided tour of the building to see areas not usually open to the public, and put their questions to one of the architects who worked on the building. more... |
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| Innovative Rent Now, Buy Later scheme gets its first UK buyer | | | East Homes is celebrating the success of its Rent Now, Buy Later scheme after becoming the first affordable housing provider in the country to enable a first-time buyer to buy a share in their home through the scheme. more... |
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| Housing minister praises success of Rent Now, Buy Later | | | Former Housing Minister Iain Wright MP praised the success of our Rent Now Buy Later scheme when he met our 250th customer, Roy Smith, earlier this month. more... |
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| One-stop-shop for employment training launched | | | Shaping your Future, a range of accredited training programmes aimed at getting residents in
Barking and Dagenham into meaningful employment, was launched at our new foyer by local
MP Margaret Hodge in May.
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| East Living scores with new schemes at Leyton Orient FC | | | East Living has recently opened two new supported living schemes, both at Scott Court - a brand new development that forms part of Leyton Orient FC North Stand. more... |
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| Children`s Centres: a year on | | | Our seven Children`s Centres have been running across Epping Forest in Essex since May 2008. more... |
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| Lunch club network launched in Newham | | | A network of lunch clubs promoting healthy eating and social interaction was launched in Newham by Councillor Neil Wilson and Deputy Mayor Christine Bowden. more... |
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| Rent Now, Buy Later scheme - 300 customers in less than a year | | | East Homes is celebrating even more success with their Rent Now, Buy Later (RNBL) scheme. more... |
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| East Thames celebrates changing face of social housing in East London and Essex | | | The growth of East Thames Group, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, is closely aligned with that of the development and regeneration of east London and Essex as a whole. Three decades ago East Thames was a small housing association operating in a socially deprived area of London where the standard of housing needed to improve. more... |
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| Final agreements confirmed for Olympic Village affordable housing | | | The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) confirmed today that, as announced last month, it has now entered into final agreement for the Triathlon Homes joint venture company to purchase 1,379 affordable homes on the Olympic Village development. The signing of terms for affordable housing concludes the agreement-in-principle announced by the ODA and Government last month. more... |
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| Sales teams doing well in a tough market | | | The Sales, Marketing, Market Analysis and Home Ownership teams have maintained great performance despite working in a difficult market. The teams have experienced a record number of properties being handed over despite the declining market conditions. more... |
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| Good news across the Group for 2008-09 | | | This year has seen a number of great performance achievements across the Group. more... |
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| East Foundation celebration event | | | East Foundation held an event last month to celebrate the difference it has made through its many grant making programmes. more... |
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| East Thames leads regeneration in Waltham Forest | | | The Mayor of Waltham Forest attended a ceremony recently to mark the start of construction at our new development in Blackhorse Lane, Waltham Forest. more... |
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| Specialist Support Panel now taking referrals | | | A panel has been set up to assess referrals to our specialist services. If you know of a vulnerable resident, you may want to consider a referral to this panel. more... |
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| Foyer Achievement Awards 2009 | | | The first ever foyer resident achievement awards were held this month to celebrate residents` involvement and success in a range of projects. Over 100 people, including residents, funders and staff, came to the event to cheer on the young people. more... |
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| Hazelwood Children's Centre help dads prepare for Mother`s Day | | | Preparations for Mother`s Day were in full swing at East Potential`s Children`s Centre in Hazelwood, Essex, in April. The sun shone as dads and children played in the garden, before getting stuck into making their own personalised gifts. more... |
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| New foyer opens in Barking | | | East Potential`s new Barking and Dagenham Foyer celebrated their first residents moving in with in open day. This event offered a chance to look around the new foyer and see the services on offer. more... |
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| 100th customer signs up to innovative Rent Now, Buy Later scheme | | | A young couple from Romford have become the 100th household to sign up for East Homes` innovative affordable housing scheme - Rent Now, Buy Later - since it was launched in September last year. more... |
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| Improved partnership working needed to tackle homelessness in London | | | Expert speakers highlighted urgent measures needed to prevent the economic crisis causing a major increase in homelessness at a recent conference on Tackling Homelessness in London. more... |
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| Spend your time, save your money! | | | East Homes has partnered up with CHAS to offer all residents a chance to spring clean their finances at our FREE money mentoring course. more... |
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| New Front of House Team at West Ham Lane | | | East Thames new Front of House Team at West Ham Lane - a one stop shop for resident queries. more... |
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| Value for Money across the Group | | | East Thames has been taking a serious look at how we can deliver better value for money across the organisation. Here are some examples of our successes. more... |
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| Responding to customer enquiries, complaints and compliments | | | One of the focuses of our continuous improvement programme - Back to Basics - has been improving the way we collect and respond to complaints. Complaints are important as they offer us a chance to identify where our services are not working as well as they could be. more... |
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| `g15` London housing associations pledge to help local authorities tackle homelessness | | | A pledge to tackle homelessness in London is being launched today (Wednesday 19 November) by the g15, a group of independent housing associations in London. more... |
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| Good news for residents in Tower Hamlets! | | | East Homes has now joined the Tower Hamlets Common Housing Register and you can register on it from Monday, 4 August 2008. more... |
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| East London and Essex artists take a fresh look at the environment | | | BREATHE is an exciting new exhibition of work by ten local artists who have explored ideas of Environment in its broadest sense. The works present us with ambivalences towards the subject. Despite this, all the artists reveal a desire to find beauty in their subjects, either through the visual spectacle or through transforming objects into something new. more... |
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| Volunteers help improve reading standards at Rokeby | | | Members of staff from local housing association East Thames Group have completed a ten-week volunteering project helping pupils at Rokeby School in Pitchford Street, Stratford E15, learn to read. The project was aimed at helping children who have recently moved to England and are learning English for the first time. Some of them may never have even been to school before. more... |
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| Specialist housing associations encouraged to join partnership panel | | | Small, specialist housing associations operating in east London and Essex are being encouraged to work together with East Thames Group, to help provide quality services that are tailored to the needs of local communities and individuals. more... |
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| Royal opening of East Thames head office in Stratford | | | A royal visit today (24 June) marks the official opening of the new Stratford headquarters of East Thames Group, the largest housing association of its type operating across east London and Essex.
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent will perform the opening ceremony, which marks a significant episode in the life of East Thames, its customers and the local area. more... |
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| New approach needed to prevent re-offending among young people | | | A new approach to working with young offenders to tackle re-offending has been recommended by a panel of experts following a six-month study.
A report published on Tuesday 17th June by a multi-disciplinary steering group recommends a new, holistic model for preventing re-offending using Young Offenders` Academies, and proposes that a pilot Academy is set up in east London. more... |
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| Young artists` work previewed at new east London exhibition space | | | The work of current and former young residents of local foyers forms a striking photographic exhibition now on preview at East Thames Group`s new head office in West Ham Lane, Stratford. more... |
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| Young people in Newham debate ways of tackling gun and knife crime | | | More than 70 people met to debate possible solutions to the problem of gun and knife crime at an event in Stratford on Saturday. `Peace in da Streets` was hosted by residents from East Potential`s Focus E15 foyer, which houses and supports about 200 young homeless people. more... |
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| Awards mark volunteering initiative`s first birthday | | | East Living`s Volunteer Recognition Awards 2008 celebrated the work that volunteers have been carrying out in the local area since the initiative began in March 2007. Since then 42 volunteers have dedicated almost 2,500 hours of their time to community projects. more... |
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| Newham Mayor unveils centre for business start-ups in heart of Stratford | | | Fledgling businesses in Newham will be given a major boost by new incubator units in central Stratford, on the doorstep of the 2012 development site. more... |
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| Major changes to repairs and maintenance services | | | During the past year East Thames has been listening to residents` feedback and looking at how we can improve our repairs and maintenance services. more... |
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| East Thames employees bake `n` bring for Fairtrade Fortnight | | | As Newham`s flagship Fairtrade employer, East Thames Group celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight by running a Bake `n` Bring event for employees in partnership with Newham Food Access Partnership. more... |
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| £150,000 to support youth training in Barking | | | Homeless young people in Barking recently got a big boost to their future chances in life. On 28 February, the Jack Petchey Foundation presented a cheque for £150,000 to support training programmes in East Potential`s new foyer, which is being built in Wakering Road, Barking. more... |
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| Young people to tackle gun and knife crime | | | Young people from foyers in east London run by East Potential are joining forces with young people from across London in a bid to tackle knife and gun crime. more... |
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| East Thames Group has moved! | | | We`ve moved to a new head office on West Ham Lane, Stratford. more... |
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| Going for Gold - East Thames shortlisted for prestigious Gold Award 2008 | | | East Thames Group`s ongoing commitment to tackling worklessness has earned it a place on the shortlist for this year`s much coveted Gold Award, run by the Housing Corporation and now in its third year. more... |
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| Housing experts debate high density housing | | | Housing experts and professionals will meet at a seminar today (24 January) organised by East Thames Group to debate the challenges faced in delivering high quality, high density housing in London. more... |
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| East Thames Group awarded Investors in People status | | | East Thames Group has been awarded the Investors in People Standard for the first time, recognising its commitment to developing staff and its determination and passion for making a positive impact on communities in East London and Essex. more... |
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| Improving the Choice Based Lettings service | | | As part of a move to further improve the way residents bid for new properties, we plan to join the weekly East London Lettings Company`s Choice Homes Magazine - replacing the current Choice Homes magazine. more... |
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| New and Improved Rent Statement | | | We will be senting all residents a `new and improved` quarterly rent statement in January 2008. more... |
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| Office Closure over the Christmas period | | | With Christmas approaching the Customer Contact Centre wishes to let all residents knows our opening times during the holiday period. more... |
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| New research shows recruitment practices need to change to pave the way for young black professionals | | | As the Government announces its role modelling programme aimed at improving young black men`s aspirations, East Thames Group has today published research into the barriers to gaining employment for young black men, which shows the serious extent to which young black men are excluded from the workplace. more... |
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| Halley School name community centre at new development in Tower Hamlets | | | A school in LB Tower Hamlets has won a competition to name a community centre in a major new £93 million housing and community development at Grand Union Place, an East Thames Group development on Harford Street, E1. more... |
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| East Thames protégé is Youthbuilder of the Year! | | | An East Potential initiative that supports young people into the construction industry has just received another accolade - and one of its graduates is celebrating being named Youthbuilder of the Year 2007. more... |
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| Creative Harlow residents exhibit work at local gallery | | | Harlow residents gathered at the Gibbard Gallery on Wednesday 10th October to view an exhibition made up of their own artwork! more... |
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| We are the Champions - East Thames honoured by Government | | | East Thames is the only registered social landlord to be designated a Regional Champion for homelessness in London, in recognition of its success in tackling and preventing homelessness. more... |
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| Construct Your Career wins another award | | | Our Construct Your Career training programme has won the Leadership and People Development category in the Constructing Excellence Awards, London and the South East. more... |
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| Women's Skills Sharing Day | | | Newham Women's Refuge and Brook Haven Refuge are running a Women's Skills Sharing day on 30th October. more... |
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| London Opportunities Fund Grant for East Potential | | | The Opportunities Fund, recently announced by the Mayor of London, has granted East Potential £499,120 to fund construction training for people living in Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. The programme will train 176 people; 70 per cent are black and minority ethnic Londoners. more... |
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| East Thames Puts Safety First | | | East Thames Group has launched a new Gas Safety campaign to make residents aware of the dangers of Carbon Monoxide. more... |
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| East Foundation to become a major player in the grant-giving community | | | Residents living in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods across east London and Essex are set to benefit from the launch of East Foundation, a new grant-giving charity set up by East Thames Group. more... |
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| Galliford Try Awarded £10.75m Affordable Housing Contract In Barking, East London | | | Galliford Try has been appointed by East Homes to deliver a £10.75m affordable housing contract at Axe Street in Barking, East London. more... |
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| The Night Before Christmas - at Breakaway! | | | Service users from Breakaway, a respite care facility run by East Living, are putting on their own Christmas panto on Friday (December 15) - after weeks of fun, rehearsals, fun and more fun. more... |
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| Focus E15 Foyer - ten years of achievement in Stratford, E15 | | | When East Potential officially opened Focus E15 in LB Newham on 26 November, 1996, it was the largest foyer in the UK - and it still is! more... |
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| East Thames captures Stratford`s History | | | Stratford post-Olympics will be a very different place to the one we know now, so one leading local organisation is using the building of its new office as an opportunity to bury a time capsule. more... |
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| Three schemes have received the Building for Life Silver Standard | | | Abbotts Wharf, Limehouse, London - East Thames Group and Telford Homes, Jestico + Whiles Architects and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets more... |
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| Getting High Density Housing Right - new toolkit to be launched | | | A new resource to help evaluate proposals for high-density, mixed tenure schemes is to be launched this week by a leading housing association. more... |
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| East Thames Residents` Day | | | Residents` Day is a free fun day for all East Thames residents. more... |
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| Abbotts Wharf Wins Prestigious Design Award | | | Abbotts Wharf, a mixed use, mixed tenure development including 201 apartments overlooking the Limehouse Cut in East London has won the Small Housebuilder award at the highly acclaimed Housing Design Awards 2006. more... |
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| Thank you, Harlow, for outstanding support | | | A giant tiger caused quite a stir among visitors to the Harvey Centre on Saturday, 20 May. The tiger, a toy, was the tombola prize in a fundraising weekend organised by young people from Harlow Foyer. A children`s colouring competition was the other Saturday event in the Centre, and more Foyer residents gave up part of Sunday to help ASDA customers pack their shopping. more... |
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| BAA grants £50,000 to East Potential`s training programme in Harlow | | | On Friday, April 28, Wilma Scott, Business & Community Manager, BAA Stanstead, presented the first instalment of a £50,000 grant to Helen Marshall, East Potential`s Head of Foyers. more... |
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| Live football from your very own affordable flat | | | Home buyers are being offered the perfect way to watch Leyton Orient play football - from the comfort of their own living room. more... |
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| Local youth charity boss wins prestigious award for his work in East London | | | A man well known for improving the lives of young people in the area was named this week as the first recipient of what is to be an annual award. more... |
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