23 Aug 2024
Congratulations to all our winners and runners-up in this year’s Raven in Bloom gardening competition! We had some fantastic entries this year, and our Customer Voice Panel faced the challenging task of selecting the winners. Thank you to our grounds maintenance contractor, Groundscapes for funding the prizes: First place: £75 gardening voucher Second place: £50 […]
22 Aug 2024
As part of our commitment to building homes and changing lives, we play an active role within our local communities, this includes engaging with communities to look at and understand ways to improve the homes and open spaces we own and manage. Raven owns and maintains over a thousand homes in the Preston area, and […]
13 Aug 2024
We’ve partnered with Reigate and Banstead Borough Council and the Cromwell estate residents’ group to transform this community and to truly understand what differences can be made to make this a better place to live. We’ve invested £200,000 into the Cromwell estate in a regeneration project that aims to revitalise neighbourhood living and improve the […]
18 Jul 2024
We’re really pleased to announce there is a brand-new Pantry opening on Banstead High Street in early September. Banstead Pantry is a community supermarket offering affordable and healthy groceries. We’ve partnered with Good Company Surrey and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council to fund this initiative, as part of our community investment. How to shop at […]
23 Apr 2024
Our gardening competition, sponsored by our grounds maintenance contractor – Groundscapes, is back for 2024! Are you a budding gardener with green fingers and have a garden or outdoor space you’re proud of? Then enter our gardening competition, Raven in Bloom, for your chance to win some gardening vouchers. There are five categories this year […]
23 Nov 2023
We’re so lucky to have loads of festive community events on our doorstep. We hope you enjoy this round up of what’s on in the coming weeks and if we’ve missed something in your area then let us know by emailing raven.comms@ravenht.org.uk. Banstead Saturday 25 November, Banstead Community Centre will be having their Open Day […]
28 Sep 2023
Each year we have an all-staff day, during which we spend the morning in our communities taking part in activities, everything from painting and gardening to supporting local charities and activities at sheltered housing schemes. 295 members of the Raven team worked across 18 different projects in our communities – that’s a massive 885 hours […]
14 Sep 2023
The Mayor of Reigate and Banstead, Cllr Eddy Humphreys, visited Portland House in Merstham (one of our sheltered housing schemed) to meet residents and staff as part of the National Housing Federation’s Starts at Home campaign, which celebrates the positive impact of supported housing on communities across the country. The visitors were greeted by residents […]
12 Sep 2023
We were delighted to welcome The Mayor of the Borough of Reigate & Banstead, Cllr Eddy Humphreys and Mrs. Sarah Humphreys, the Mayoress, along with members of the Swift Protection Association in Banstead (SPAB) to our homes in Pound Road, Banstead, earlier this month. The group took a tour of the swift colony area as […]
24 Jul 2023
We had a brilliant time at the Merstham community fun day. Our smoothie bikes were out and despite the rain a great day was had by all… we even got the Mayor of Reigate and Banstead making a smoothie!
04 Jul 2023
This week it’s ASB Awareness Week and the theme this year is ‘know your rights’. With 94% of people not knowing what an ASB case review is, we want to make sure you have the information you need so that you know your rights. What is an ASB case review? The ASB case review (formally […]
03 Jul 2023
We’re supporting Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Awareness Week from 3rd-9th July. Throughout the week we’ll be attending events and sharing important information about ASB and to highlight your rights if you’re a victim. What’s going on this week? Throughout this week we’ll be with Surrey Police and Reigate and Banstead Council at various community events. We’ll […]
29 Jun 2023
We know there are lots of you who are very green fingered and have absolutely beautiful gardens, so we thought what better way to celebrate this than to launch a gardening competition! We have five categories and there’ll be a winner and a runner up for each. Sponsored by our grounds maintenance partner, Groundscapes, first […]
21 Jun 2023
Kicking off our summer of community events was Horley Carnival on Saturday 17th June – thank you to everyone who came to see us. We had a great day, despite a little rain! Our smoothie bikes made their debut for the summer season and we had the opportunity to catch up with customers who stopped […]
08 Jun 2023
The community has come together to create a fantastic communal garden on Observatory Walk, Cromwell Estate in Redhill. We’ve been involved by installing benches (bought by our Brighter Communities Fund) and taking part in a community fun day where residents came together to finish the garden. It was a great turnout on the day and […]