Little Acts of Kindness 101 – 125

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Ben’s only too happy to help

Mrs Shirley Trotter of Floral Court was becoming really anxious about the scale of the works to her home. She was programmed to get the full works in the refurbishment of Floral Court, including a new kitchen, bathroom heating and electrics. Read more…

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Emanuel Whittaker play Father Christmas for the children at the Royal Oldham Hospital

Father Christmas and three trusty elves have delivered over £500 worth of Christmas presents to the children’s ward at The Royal Oldham Hospital. Read more…

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Its curtains for Beryl

After having a bit of a disaster, local Shepway Court resident Beryl called into the site office to ask for help. She explained that her lounge blind had come away from the ceiling at one end and she couldn’t fix it. Read more…

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Emanuel Whittaker gate crashers steal the show

It’s not unusual to have the odd coffee morning or two in a sheltered scheme, and the Emanuel Whittaker site teams have been known to pop in now and again to give an up-date on their works. Read more…

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Bramley Meade site team get the thumbs up from local residents

Emanuel Whittaker have now completed the programme of refurbishment works to homes at Bramley Meade. The works and complexity of the programme have proved challenging to the site team, headed up by Site Manager Tony Rossi. Read more…

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Blackfriar Court’s festive surprise

Over at Blackfriar Court it was Lead Resident Liaison Officer Adam Berry playing Father Christmas. Whilst out delivering the invitations for residents to join the team at an afternoon of Sherry and Mince Pies, Adam also delivered personalised Christmas cards from the site team, together with a small token gift for each and every resident. Read more…

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Don’t cancel Christmas

City West Housing Trust tenants, Mr and Mrs Dowson of Hazelmere Avenue were going to ‘cancel Christmas’ when they heard that they were to be decanted into a temporary home just before Christmas.  Read more…

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Santa visits Bramley Meade

In the lead up to Christmas, the site team were busy closing up the site and finishing off the programme of internal and external refurbishments that have taken place on the Salix Homes properties. But they still managed to find time to spread a little festive cheerRead more…

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Garry’s gymnastics save the day

The Emanuel Whittaker site team working on the Duchy estate have become the ‘go to’ team when residents need a helping hand. This time it was Resident Liaison Officer Garry Holt who was asked by elderly neighbour Pam at Enville Road to help her out. Read more…

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Christmas cheer comes to Brindale House

Emanuel Whittaker are currently carrying out a range of high spec refurbishment works to the accommodation and communal areas of Brindale House on behalf of Stockport Homes. The long established scheme provides emergency accommodation for up to 28 families at any given time, as well as providing additional emergency overnight accommodation for single people who are homeless. Read more…

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Gone but not forgotten

Despite having completed works to Mr Demba’s home on East Drive over 12 months ago, the Duchy site team were still the first port of call when a problem arose in his home. Read more…

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Floral Court team are ‘Gold Standard’

The testimonials and accolades continue to flood in for the site team at Salix Homes Floral Court who are busy refurbishing the block from top to bottom. Salix Homes Project Officer, Jo Rogan, passed on a few messages she had received from satisfied customers who had had their internal works completed… Read more…

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Operation Christmas Cheer

We all know that Christmas comes with a whole host of Christmas traditions. For the construction industry it usually means getting everything in order in readiness for the annual two week Christmas shut down. But the season of goodwill seems to have brought about some extra activities from our site teams during December… Read more…

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A kind word

The goodwill of the site team at Salix Homes Blackfriar Court hasn’t gone unnoticed, and one particular resident took the time out to call Owner and Contracts Director, John Gallagher, to express his appreciation of the work carried out by the team… Read more…

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Festive fun at Shepway Court

Residents at Shepway Court had a little bit more to contend with in the lead up to Christmas this year. Emanuel Whittaker will begin the programme of major refurbishment works to the City West Housing Trust sheltered block in the New Year and residents are getting their scheme ready for the work. Read more…

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You’ve got to be in it to win it.

City West residents who are having works carried out by Emanuel Whittaker were in for a little surprise when they opened their Christmas cards from the Emanuel Whittaker Site Team this year. Read more…

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Emanuel Whittaker bring a little festive cheer to Rawlings Close

The annual Christmas party is always an event to look forward to for the Your Housing Group’s residents at Rawlings Close. Whilst chatting to Scheme Manager Jacqui Booth, the site team heard about how much effort and expense goes in to making it such a memorable event. Read more…

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A simple job for Mick

Linden Avenue resident, Allman Snelgrove, is in his 80’s and suffers with diabetes. He was delighted to have his new windows fitted as part of the improvements taking place on the Duchy Estate. Read more…

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It’s time to celebrate – 5 years of ROCA

The members of ROCA took some time out of their bust meeting this week to celebrate a major milestone in the initiatives history. The community fund was established just 5 years ago with the support of First Choice Homes and a number of local businesses from the public, private and voluntary sectors, including Emanuel Whittaker. Read more…

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It’s the little things that matter

After helping out a distressed resident last month by fitting curtains and blinds in her new home (Little Act of Kindness no. 87), the Duchy site team were once again called upon to give a hand. Read more…