January 2012

Sustainable Living for Older People Project
We have been commissioned to develop this project that aims to improve and increase the capacity of services providing minor housing repairs or adaptations to lower income older people, primarily living in private sector housing, with a view to promoting sustainability. Where these services are lacking to gain a better understanding of the challenges presented and help needed to create new affordable methods of delivering practical housing help to these groups. The project also to aims to empower older people to play a larger role in local decision making about their housing related issues by providing training. A report based on research conducted throughout the project about housing related needs of older people will be produced in conjunction with Care & Repair ( England).

Contact Ravinder 0113 2009157

Autumn 2011 Newsletter

June 28th 2011
Annual Report 2010/11 released


Spring 2011 Newsletter

June 6th 2011 - Care & Repair Leeds has won a major national award awarded by Foundations, the national body for Home Improvement Agencies, for “Excellence in delivering a Housing Options service”. This is to be presented at an event in the House of Lords on June 23rd
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September 2010 - Awarded National HIA Quality Mark.

June 16th 2010 - Bill Rollinson, the Director, was awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday honours announced on June 12th for services to housing.

Care & Repair Leeds wins major national award - “Care & Repair Leeds are joint winners of the National Home Improvement Agency of the Year Award for 2009. This award is being presented at an event in the House of Commons on March 1st. This is the second time that the agency has won this prestigious award.”

Pictured from left to right, Bill Rollinson, director of Care & Repair, Samantha Latham, Housing Choices caseworker and Gordon Lee, treasurer of Care & Repair with the Excellence in Delivering a Housing Options Service award presented in the House of Lords June 2011.

By Sophie Hazan Yorkshire Evening Post
Published on Monday 4 July 2011 12:55

A Leeds charity which helps and supports elderly people in the city has picked up yet another award.

Leeds Care & Repair is a charitable Home Improvement Agency providing help and support to older people and disabled people to live independently in their own homes.

Last year it won the “Agency of the Year” award, and this year it won another award by Foundations for “Excellence in Delivering a Housing Options Service”.

This was presented in the House of Lords at an event hosted by Baroness Sally Greengross.

The Housing Options service provides advice and support for older people to either move to more appropriate accommodation for their needs or to receive extra help in their existing homes. Over 100 people receive this help every year and the service is funded by Leeds City Council.

The main aims of the service are to give older people as much information and advice as possible to allow them to make informed choices about their housing needs, and then to offer them the practical help and support to achieve this.

John Galvin, director of the Elderly Accommodation Council, presented the award and said: “I am particularly pleased to award this to one of the best agencies in the country and one we have worked closely with over many years.”

In addition to winning national awards for Leeds, the deirector, Bill Rollinson, was awarded an MBE in 2010 for “Services to Housing in Leeds”.

Care & Repair Leeds is 25-years-old this year and will be celebrating this event later in the year. It provides a range of 11 different services to over 7,000 people every year throughout Leeds. Click here for the full press release article.


“The delegation from Care & Repair Leeds receiving the Home Improvement Agency of the Year Award in the House of Commons in March 2010, with Phil Hope MP Minister of State for Care Services”

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