ExtraCare wins Communications Team of the Year at Housing Heroes Awards
ExtraCare’s Communications Team has won the Communications Team of the Year award at the Housing Heroes Awards, held last night in Manchester.
June 28, 2016
Planning permission granted for Bournville retirement cottages
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust has been granted planning permission to build 16 cottages as part of Bournville Gardens, the Charity’s fourth retirement village in Birmingham.
June 23, 2016
Downsizing and why Britain needs a plan to house our elderly
A new report has just put the spotlight on older people downsizing, suggesting that millions of under-occupied homes would be freed up and those moving would gain health and quality of life benefits.
June 15, 2016
Volunteers’ Week 2016: Sheila’s story
Sheila Butler has volunteered at ExtraCare’s Princethorpe Court in Coventry for two years. Here, she tells us about her experience…
June 6, 2016
NHS Improvement Chairman Hails ‘Outstanding Approach’ at City Retirement Village
A senior NHS chairman has hailed a Birmingham retirement village for its ‘outstanding and innovative approach’ to improving the health and lifestyle of local older people.
May 23, 2016
Doors open to new homes at Longbridge Retirement Village
Great grandparents Lynne and Graham Chalk were amongst the guests at the opening of the new Longbridge Village show homes. The couple married when Lynne was just 16 and Graham was two years older.
May 12, 2016
Choosing Health and Choosing Life
Angela Bradford, Commissioning and Healthy Lifestyles Director at The ExtraCare Charitable Trust, explains why investment in the charity’s later life well-being services pays off...
May 10, 2016
ExtraCare wins Outstanding Approach to Innovation at UKHA
ExtraCare has won the Outstanding Approach to Innovation award at the UK Housing Awards.
April 27, 2016
NHBC reports 9 out of 10 residents enjoy retirement housing
A recent report from the NHBC Foundation found that nine out of ten people living in retirement housing said that they either loved or enjoyed their experience most of the time.
April 26, 2016
ExtraCare shortlisted for Housing Heroes awards
ExtraCare’s Healthy Lifestyles Team and Communications Team have been shortlisted for Inside Housing’s Housing Heroes awards.
April 14, 2016
History to be remembered at Longbridge Retirement Village
The history of Longbridge is to be remembered at the new ExtraCare retirement village, which opens in 2017.
April 11, 2016
Community learns about High Wycombe retirement village
Hundreds of older people from High Wycombe attended an information day recently to find out more about ExtraCare’s Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village, due to open in 2018.
April 4, 2016