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07/09/2010
Our swipe card provider, allpay, have advised us that rent payments by phone or internet will not be possible between 8am and 4pm on Sunday 12th September 2010 as they are updating their systems.
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05/08/2010
A music festival which will be aimed at young people in Chester-le-Street has received a cash bonus thanks Cestria Community Housing.
The Chester-le-Street based housing association has donated £5,000 to help fund the ChesterFest music festival which will be held at Riverside Park on Saturday 14 August 2010.
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04/08/2010
Due to essential maintenance works our website will be unavailable on Tuesday 10th August 2010 from 12pm noon until approximately 5pm.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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02/08/2010
Cestria Community Housing is celebrating after it won a regional award in recognition for their efforts to recruit young long-term unemployed people.
The association won the ‘Youth Employment Award’ at the Jobcentre Plus Awards 2010 in recognition for their commitment to recruit young people.
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29/07/2010
Cestria Community Housing is holding an open day at its One Stop Shop in Front Street, Chester-le-Street.
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29/07/2010
A new campaign called ‘The Big Say’ has been launched by Cestria Community Housing this morning.
The housing association, which owns and manages the former Chester-le-Street District Council housing stock, is consulting with all tenants to find out their views on the services they deliver.
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26/07/2010
Pupils from Bullion Lane Primary School in Chester-le-Street, County Durham were taught the dangers of playing on building sites just before they broke up for their summer holidays.
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19/07/2010
'Dudley the Elephant' dropped in on a County Durham school this morning to officially launch a new campaign about site safety.
The cuddly elephant visited assembly at Sacriston Junior School in Sacriston, Durham to launch ‘Stay Safe’ – a campaign which highlights the dangers of playing on building sites.
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14/07/2010
Cestria Community Housing has stepped in to help youngsters after their allotment was hit by thieves who stole all their gardening tools.
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29/06/2010
The TSA is the new regulator for social housing in England. It came into being on April 1st, 2010 to find out more about the TSA please click here.
This means for the first time all social housing providers like Cestria Community Housing are regulated by the same Authority.
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25/06/2010
One of Cestria Community Housing’s tenants living in Sacriston celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends yesterday.
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23/06/2010
Logging on has proved to be a hit with Chester-le-Street housing association tenants wanting to learn how to use a computer.
Following the success of the basic computer training level 1 course provided by Cestria Community Housing, tenants have now gone on to successfully complete their level 2 certificates.
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22/06/2010
Tenants from Cestria Community Housing are encouraging wild birds to nest in their gardens thanks to the recycling initiative of a young apprentice.
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22/06/2010
Green-fingered residents in Chester-le-Street are being invited to show off their ‘blooming marvellous’ gardening skills by entering Cestria Community Housing’s annual Gardening Competition.
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21/06/2010
Staff from a Chester-le-Street based social landlord have been commended for going above and beyond their core duties in an awards ceremony.
More than 100 staff attended Cestria Community Housing’s Shining Stars Evening of Entertainment awards ceremony at Beamish Hall Hotel in County Durham.
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11/06/2010
Work commenced on 7th June 2010 on the refurbishment of the Lambourne Close Communal Room.
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10/06/2010
A new Resident Involvement leaflet has now been developed and published with assistance of residents from the Cestria Reference Group and the Readers Group.
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02/06/2010
Cestria Community Housing has been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Jobcentre Plus Awards 2010 in recognition of their achievements.
The Chester-le-Street based landlord has been shortlisted for the Youth Employment and Employer of the Year Awards.
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02/06/2010
Due to the success of last years Neighbourhood Awards, we are again looking for good neighbours who are living in our homes.
Do you know someone who has done something exceptional and deserves to be recognised for his/her work in their community? If so we'd like to here from you.
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27/05/2010
Tenants in Chester-le-Street are benefiting from a multi-million pound home improvement programme – four months ahead of plan.
Cestria Community Housing is now bringing its improvement plans forward after beating its targets for installing UPVC windows and doors to 3,000 properties.
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10/05/2010
Then why not enter Cestria's 2010 Garden Competition?
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30/04/2010
Cestria Community Housing has welcomed a new member of staff to its senior management team with the appointment of a Director of Finance and Corporate Services.
Martin Warhurst (36) joins the association from the social housing team of Grant Thornton in Leeds and will be responsible for leading and managing finance, human resources, ICT and corporate services.
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30/04/2010
Starting the press to print a new resident involvement leaflet was the culmination of a year’s hard work for tenants at Cestria Community Housing.
The North East housing association has been working with the Cestria Reference Group and Readers Group to produce the leaflet and the tenants have been so involved in the project that they visited the firms local printer for a tour to see their handiwork.
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27/04/2010
A new system to report how pleased tenants are with their housing service was launched this morning by Cestria Community Housing.
Tenants will now find it much easier to tell the Chester-le-Street based landlord how satisfied they are with the services provided thanks to a new reporting system called ‘GovMetric’.
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09/04/2010
Now local residents will find it much easier to tell Cestria Community Housing how satisfied they are with the services provided. Cestria is introducing a service called GovMetric, which will give customers a quick way of leaving feedback whenever they contact the organisation on the telephone, on the web or in person.
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02/04/2010
Addresses have now been agreed for inclusion in both the Internal Modernisation and the Heating Replacement programmes for 2010/2011.
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19/03/2010
Children from a small village in the Northeast of Bangladesh have been supplied with hundreds of knitted jumpers thanks to a tenant from Cestria Community Housing.
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04/03/2010
A service to carry out small repairs and maintenance jobs within people’s homes and their immediate external environment has been extended.
The handyvan service which is run by Cestria Community Housing was launched last year and is already proving to be a huge success with tenants.
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02/03/2010
Four new members of staff have joined Cestria Community Housing’s community caretaker team to help improve the district’s estates.
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22/02/2010
Cestria Community Housing has provided five young people with employment and training opportunities thanks to the Government’s Future Jobs Fund Programme.
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12/02/2010
This month Cestria Community Housing is celebrating 'Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) History Month'. This takes place every year in February and aims to celebrate the lives and achievements of the LGBT community.
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11/02/2010
The Tenants Satisfaction Survey 2009 indicated that our tenants aged between 24 and 54 and our Black and Ethnic Minority tenants were less satisfied with some of our services than our other tenants.
To discover what we can do to improve satisfaction levels, tenants were invited to a specially arranged event last night.
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14/01/2010
Cestria Community Housing is celebrating the progress it has made after delivering its promise to install uPVC windows and doors to over 3,000 tenants’ homes.
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06/01/2010
Cestria Community Housing are looking for enthusiastic tenants and leaseholders to get involved in becoming mystery shoppers.
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23/12/2009
The Tenant Services Authority (TSA) was set up as a result of the 2008 Housing and Regeneration Act. The Act increases the TSA’s powers over the regulation of social housing. The TSA’s goal is to raise the standards of services for affordable housing tenants.
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17/12/2009
A Durham-based housing association has started its recruitment drive to appoint four new community caretakers to help improve the general appearance of its local neighbourhoods.
Cestria Community Housing will offer employment opportunities to the new recruits who will join their existing team of community caretakers to help improve the district’s estates and tidy over 70 miles of path edges.
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14/12/2009
A grandfather has praised quick thinking alarm centre staff and the emergency services who helped to save his life after he was taken seriously ill at home.
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09/12/2009
Budding young artists have created their own award winning Christmas card designs thanks to a joint scheme by social housing provider, Cestria Community Housing, and building contractor Dunelm Property Services.
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07/12/2009
We have 50 family tickets up for grabs to see Dick Whittington at the Gala Theatre in Durham.
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23/11/2009
A local residents’ association in Chester-le-Street has received a cash boost thanks to a new community development fund set up by social landlord, Cestria Community Housing.
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