Southern Housing Group

We recognise the fundamental value of providing support to our residents and communities beyond providing high quality homes and housing services.

The Social and Economic Regeneration Department (SERD) provides a focus for our activity.

We do this by:

• Building  safer, stronger communities.
• Providing opportunities for individuals and communities to realise their potential.
• Creating places where people want to live. 

We take a proactive approach to issues such as employment and training, poverty and developing young people, as well as neighbourhood-focused work where we support and develop communities. Find out more about how we work and our grant making programmes.

Some of our initiatives include:

• Forming partnerships with credit unions and financial advice agencies and providing debt advice and guidance to some of our most vulnerable residents.
• Managing a range of grants programmes to support community activities and projects in the estates and neighbourhoods where we work.
• The Employment and Training Project. We work in partnership with a range of key stakeholders and agencies to develop innovative projects that offer our residents the chance to improve employment, training and skills opportunities. This is done using numerous different approaches, such as one-to-one outreach, grant funding support, training sessions, signposting services etc.
• Youth Development supports the group’s objectives in developing appropriate youth strategies on and around our estates.