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Eden Housing Association acts as Managing Agent for Mitre Housing Association, who focuses on small scale developments of affordable rented housing in rural areas in Cumbria. Mitre was established by the Diocese of Carlisle as a practical response to the shortage that impacts on so many individuals and communities. Mitre is an independent registered housing association, with currently around 150 units under management, an active development programme and the resources to do more. It employs Eden Housing Association as its Managing Agents. Mitre’s Chair has reached the end of his term of office. They are therefore now seeking a new Chair who will help them to fulfil their aspirations and to drive forward its ambitious strategic plans. Mitre is looking for someone who shares its values and aspirations and who can bring strategic leadership, helping them sustain high standards as a landlord, in its development and overall governance. Mitre Housing Association welcomes applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, whose skills and interests can add to those of the Board Members and help them maximise their potential. As part of the regular cycle of renewal, Mitre is also recruiting other new Board Members. They need to be comfortable with Mitre’s…

Are you interested in a Business Administration Apprenticeship? We are currently looking to recruit a new General Housing Business Apprentice, working within our Customer Service Team. After 18 months in the post you will have achieved a NVQ Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship.  You will also have hands on experience in a sector where the skills you develop will be relevant in any work environment. If you have the following qualities, we would love to hear from you: Please also note we require the successful candidate to have attained 5 GCSE’s (including English and Maths) to enrol on to the apprenticeship. If you are interested and would like to find out more please get in touch with the HR team at Eden Housing Association on 01768 861424/79 or email [email protected] Click here to see what our previous Apprentices have to say about working at EHA, and how it started them on a great career path …

Thank you for your patience today.  We have taken almost double the number of calls we would usually take due to storm damage caused last night.  The forecast is for stormy weather to continue through into Tuesday 23rd and we expect to remain very busy. We also still have some colleagues who are unable to get to work due to flooding and road closures following storm damage, and who are unable to work from home as they have no electricity. If your call is not an emergency, please consider contacting us later in the week or use our online MyAccount service. We’ll provide a service update again later on Tuesday 23rd.

Eden Housing Association (EHA) is working with ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) to deliver a new Rural Housing Enabling Service in Cumbria.  The service is being developed throughout England by ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England), of which ACT is the Cumbria member of the ACRE network. ACRE has secured funding from DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) for a service to boost affordable homes to ensure that small, rural communities don’t continue to miss out on the development of the affordable homes they need. The Cumbrian Rural Housing Enabler Service will help ‘unlock’ small development sites, some of which may not be on the local list of allocated sites for housing development, or maybe ‘windfall’ sites. The aim is to help communities of up to 3000 people see affordable housing development at appropriate scale, coming to fruition. In most cases, the need will be for fewer than 10 homes. ‘We know that these small developments of affordable houses can make the difference between a resident village population that can support local services and one where the shop and the school and pub become unsustainable over time,’ says ACT’s Fran Richardson. ‘We also know that economies…

EHA is responsible for maintaining the communal areas of its estates within Cumbria. We are tendering out the Grounds Maintenance contract for the communal area programme starting April 2024. The tender is split up into Lots to encourage small and medium sized enterprises. To register your interest and put in a tender please visit: https://www.mytenders.co.uk/Search/search_mainpage.aspx

At their next meeting, our Board need to decide about what increase to apply to rents next year. We are still waiting for confirmation from the government about what the increase can be, but we are expecting around 7%. We think this is the minimum required to keep the business running and meet tenants’ priorities. Our Board are keen to hear what tenants think so they have a clearer picture before considering our recommendation. Click here to take part in the consultation

Help shape the future of EHA: tell us what’s important to you We are about to start writing the new plan to steer EHA through to 2029. Before we start, we want to make sure that we understand what is most important to our tenants. Please take a few minutes to complete our quick survey. If you add your contact details, we’ll enter you in a draw for £100 vouchers to spend locally – you’ll receive them before Christmas. Complete survey Deadline for entries is 5pm 6th October 2023. We’ll be sharing our consultation around the 2024 rent increase with you tomorrow too… keep an eye out for another chance to win £100 vouchers!

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The Board of Eden Housing Association (EHA) is pleased to announce that following an In-Depth Assessment (IDA) from the Regulator of  Social Housing it has received their highest rating for governance – G1! Beth Furneaux, Chair, said ”I would like to thank the Board, the Executive Team and Geraldine Kay who acted as our Interim Chief Executive during 2022 along with all our staff, for their hard work and support. This has given us a strong platform for our new Executive Team , led by Chris Fawcett, to move forward.” Given the economic challenges facing social housing providers at the present time, the Regulator has regraded the majority of the sector to a compliant V2 rating for their financial viability. Beth confirmed that “The Association remains financially strong and we expected that, given the number of regrades to V2 for many housing associations, we would be awarded G1/V2.” The full report from the Regulator of Social Housing following the IDA is available on The Succeeding Together Strategy of 2021-2024 will complete next year and the EHA team look forward to a bright future, delivering for tenants. Chris Fawcett, Chief Executive, said “I’m enjoying the role as EHA’s Chief Executive since…

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