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The latest stage in England’s lockdown easing is due to go ahead from 19 July, so we want to update you on how we’ll deliver services after this date and what you can expect from us.

Together with Irwell Valley Homes, we’re planning to build affordable new homes on the Rivington Chase development after planning was approved by Bolton Council as part of the regeneration of the former Loco Works in Horwich.

This week, we became an Accredited Member of DAHA (www.dahalliance.org.uk). Read on to see what this means for us going forward.

A community group in Bolton that’s “helped and healed” hundreds of people across the town has been honoured The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

Willow Hey Community Project, based in Farnworth, encourages the local community to come together to reduce social isolation through its food growing and woodworking sessions.

If you’re an EU citizen, or know someone who is, you need to apply for EU Settled Status before the deadline 30 June 2021. Make sure you (and your children) don’t miss the deadline to prove your right to live, work and study in the UK.

Click here for more information on the EU Settlement Scheme.

Tenants, residents, and stakeholders- now it's your turn to influence the future of housing in Bolton and the wider Greater Manchester region.

We're working with Salix Homes to encourage people like you to complete a short online survey.

This Easter, we teamed-up with our friends at Asda Bolton and Farnworth, Bolton Wanderers Community Trust, Seddon, and Maxmedia Communications Ltd to help the Easter bunny donate an egg-straordinary 500 eggs to Urban Outreach Bolton.

This year, International Women’s Day calls us to #choosetochallenge.

We’ve teamed-up with local visual arts duo Illuminos to bring a socially distanced pop-up arts project to the borough featuring a vintage Mini Cooper. The ‘Mini Moments’ initiative will see the old-style 1990 Mini touring the borough to project images and video featuring people’s good news on homes and buildings.

Tenants and residents- your Winter 2020/21 issue of TAP4 is here! Grab a brew and see what's new:

You can read issue six of TAP4 by clicking here.

A leaflet from Public Health England is available to download in English, Kurdish, Farsi, Arabic, and Turkish and answers these commonly-asked questions:

• What are the side effects?
• Can I catch COVID-19 from the vaccine?
• Can I go back to normal activities after having my vaccine?
• What do I do next?
• What should I do if I am not well when it is my next appointment?
• Will the vaccine protect me?
• Can I give COVID-19 to anyone, now I have had the vaccine?

Bolton’s Fund is backing young people to lead their own climate projects and help make the place they live cleaner and greener.

We're creating seven new job opportunities, with more to follow, as part of the government’s Kickstart scheme for young people at risk of long-term unemployment.

If you’re interested in this property, please click here.

It’s part of Bolton at Home Group’s Asset Management Strategy to have an active approach to the management of properties and it’s recognised that there are occasions where selling a property is the best option after a detailed assessment.

Community groups and young people in Bolton are being encouraged to apply for a share of £50,000 worth of funding for projects to reduce the impact of climate change.

Live in Bolton? Please give your opinions, climate priorities and ideas to reduce emissions and shape plans so Bolton’s a healthier, cleaner and greener place within 10 years.

Here's a direct link to the survey: https://bit.ly/3o8EoBd. It will close on Friday 29 January.

We're enouraging people living in Greater Manchester to top up their weekly income by applying for a multi-million-pound pot of unclaimed government funds. 

Latest figures released from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, along with Greater Manchester Housing Providers, suggests as many as 43,000 local residents could be eligible to benefit from £76 million of unclaimed Pension Credit.

Over 150 volunteers from Bolton have come forward to help a local charity make food deliveries to families in need during lockdown. The volunteer drivers will deliver lunch parcels to around 2,000 schoolchildren in the borough who would otherwise receive a free school meal.

Dozens of charities across Bolton received a combined £14,000 to help them say a festive “thank you” to their volunteers and staff for all their hard work in 2020.

Congratulations to two of our colleagues, Daniel Fitton and Hayley Lord, who were recognised for their commitment to both themselves and those they work with during 2020’s Direct Works Forum virtual awards ceremony, held on Monday 7 December

Motiv8, a Greater Manchester programme that we run in Bolton and Wigan for people to overcome barriers and get back on track, has been highly commended in this year’s UK Housing Awards.

We support the national social media campaign #SharkFreeSurfing. It’s led by the England Illegal Money Lending Team to encourage loan shark victims and the wider community to report illegal money lending activity. The risks are real and the dangers are growing, especially online. So it’s really important we know the signs and what to do to protect ourselves and our loved ones. 

Charities and community organisations can access a total of £225,000 in funding to help give Bolton children the best possible start in life.