Orbit Group

Today, we unveil our 2030 strategy... We've outlined our ambitions over the next six years at Orbit Group, where we will be aiming to provide amongst the best customer experience of any housing association in the country. Our 2030 strategy focuses on: 🔵 Prioritising customer experience 🔵 Building 5,700 new homes We’ll look to achieve this by building and maintaining safe, quality homes that our customers love, both sustainably and at scale, all supported by excellent customer service. Our 2030 Strategy is also underpinned by our Sustainability Strategy which sets out how we will ensure everything we do maximises the positive social and environmental impacts we make. Scroll through the images below or read the full strategy document to find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ej7J3uBa

If you’re attending Housing Technology's Data Matters 2024 next week, make sure you catch our Head of Data & Analytics, Claire England's session on 10th September covering ‘The data-delivery rollercoaster’. Claire will be discussing the highs and lows of delivering business value through data, as well as sharing her insight with peers on building a modern data team, developing a data-delivery operating model and how to maintain engagement with data strategy across all levels of a housing organisation. #DataMatters2024

Following a Business in the Community “Seeing is believing” visit, we recently joined forces with Fortem Solutions to fund and erect a new roof for St Francis Church in Coventry. The Church is home to St Francis Employability, which aims to transform its local community and the lives of local people, helping them to move towards social and financial inclusion, meaningful engagement in employment and education, and living a fulfilling life. Long-term damage to the roof had begun to affect the support that the charity could offer, so we were delighted to be able to provide them with a new roof and secure space from which they can continue to offer their valuable services. Revd Aggy Palairet said: "St Francis seek to provide a welcoming and safe space for all who come through our door regardless of religion, age, race and gender. It's wonderful to have our roof repaired so the people in this community can stay warm and dry and St Francis Employability can carry on delivering community work within the parish. A big thank you to Orbit and Fortem for all their hard work and for making our building safe once more." Watch more here 👉 https://bit.ly/3Mxi5mO Phil Andrew Selina Read

As a provider of 700 Supported Housing homes for people who benefit from learning or improving their skills to live as independently as possible, we are proud to support #StartsAtHome day in recognition and celebration of the important role supported housing plays to many people within our communities. Everyone deserves a safe and secure place to call home, so we echo the National Housing Federation's call for long term funding and political commitment to build a stronger housing system, that ensures everyone with support needs has a secure future.

Orbit CEO, Phil Andrew supports calls for long-term funding settlement 👇 --- "I was pleased to read that the Chancellor is considering a 10-year funding formula for social housing providers ahead of the October budget. A long-term funding settlement is long overdue if we are to balance our need to upgrade the homes of our existing customers and build new high quality affordable homes that meet the needs of our communities. The ambition exists in housing associations to do more, and the government has made encouraging noises on planning reform and on new towns since coming to power. Not-for-profit housing associations like ours want to both improve our current homes to ensure they are future-fit for customers and build new affordable homes to help solve the housing crisis. But after years of uncertainty and underfunding our sector lacks the financial capacity that we now need to rebuild at speed whilst we also effectively plan, fix, and upgrade our existing stock. We need long term funding certainty, coupled with appropriate protections for customers, so we can make the necessary strategic investments to make our homes greener, and therefore cheaper to run for our customers, and these improvements are key to the nation reaching net zero. But that is only one part of the equation. To fully deliver the government’s desire of the ‘biggest growth in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation’ we also need urgent clarity on the new grant system from Homes England to truly accelerate the building of new affordable and sustainable homes, along with the regeneration of existing sites. The government cannot build 1.5m homes alone, it needs to work in partnership with builders across the sector to meet its objectives. Housing associations are a key player in this, we just need the certainty to get going and build the affordable homes so many families need." Phil Andrew CEO of Orbit Group --- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government #SocialHousingProviders #AffordableHousing #HousingAssociations #HousingCrisis #PlanningReform #NetZeroHomes #AffordableHomes #HomesEngland #SustainableHousing

We're proud to have recently installed a new lifesaving defibrillator at our Better Days hub in Newmarket. 👏 Thanks to the support from the Department of Health and Social Care's Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund, who provided 50% of the funding. We matched this contribution to cover the total cost of the defibrillator and worked with our repairs and maintenance contractor MPS Housing who installed the defibrillator for free. Louise Millington Cert. CIH, Better Days Hub lead commented: “We want to help create communities where people feel safe and supported. We're delighted that we have been able to secure this essential lifesaving equipment for the people in and around our Better Days hub which also offers a range of free services to support people’s health and wellbeing.” Importantly, we've also registered the defibrillator on The Circuit, the UK’s national defibrillator network, ensuring the ambulance service can easily direct people to it in an emergency. https://bit.ly/4drCgOt #NewmarketCommunity #DefibrillatorFund #CommunitySupport #LifesavingEquipment

We’re shocked and saddened about the current unrest and our primary concern is for our customers, colleagues, and partners. Orbit was founded with a mission to create communities where everyone, no matter their background, can live in peace, with respect and opportunity. We take zero tolerance towards any form of violence, discrimination, harassment, or prejudice. #NoPlaceForHate

Recently we completed our refurbishment at Bushey Court in Bexley. We worked with our Orbit Homes professional interior designers to provide a safer, modern, and more welcoming space for older people. Francis Burrows, Director of Support and Service Development for Orbit said: “We want residents to have safe, comfortable homes that they love. We hope that the refurbishments have created modern, homely spaces that residents can relax and socialise in and be proud to enjoy with their friends and family.” To celebrate the completion, we were joined by residents and the Leader of London Borough of Bexley Council, Councillor Baroness O'Neill of Bexley OBE. Find out more about the refurbishments and how it was renovated to show home quality here: https://bit.ly/3LRahfs

A really great meeting today with our CEO Phil Andrew, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Angela Rayner, and Minister of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government about the importance of not just building new affordable homes, but also investing in existing homes and estates.

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting two customers to join our Group Board as Non-Executive Directors. This is an exciting step in helping to shape Orbit's future direction and will ensure our customers are at the heart of everything we do. All Orbit customers are welcome to apply. Apply here 👉 https://bit.ly/orbitneds Read more: https://bit.ly/4cRWXTZ #NonExecutiveDirectors #CustomerRecruitment #BoardMembership #CustomerEngagement