Real stories of Progress

REAL STORIES OF PROGRESS

We are much more than just housing; we are immensely proud and passionate about changing lives. Our mission is to have a positive impact on people and communities by providing high-quality homes, supporting independence and creating opportunities.

Progress Housing Group | Making Progress

This is how we are making Progress

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23 | Making Progress | Caitlin

Hi I'm Caitlin and this is my story

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23| Making Progress | Julie

Hi I'm Julie and this is how I'm making progress

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23| Making Progress | Dorothy

Hi I'm Dorothy and this is how I am making Progress

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23| Making Progress | Alicia

Hi my name is Alicia and this is how I am making Progress

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23| Making Progress | The Fylde Community Food Hub

This is the community food hub and this is how they are making Progress

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Progress Housing Group Annual Report 22/23| Making Progress | Liam

Hi my name is Liam and this is how I am making Progress

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Our Lives in Progress

Our Lives in Progress - A year in review 21/22

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My life in Progress | Tina

Hi my name is Tina, and this is my life in Progress.

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Our lives in Progress | Josephine & Antonio

Progress Housing Group tenant Antonio, with his partner and care provider, Josephine. Antonio currently has the Progress Lifeline Vi unit and pendant due to his health conditions.

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My life in Progress | Zelda

Hello, my name is Zelda this is my life in Progress.

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My life in Progress | Victoria

Meet Victoria, who is a nurse practitioner in the Morecambe area. She has purchased a Shared Ownership property from Progress Housing Group.

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My life in Progress | Sian

My name is Sian, and this is my life in Progress. I found out about Progress Futures through the job centre, and then they gave me a leaflet which I self-referred myself to and contacted them. Progress Futures has helped me with cv writing, my confidence, my interview preparations and getting into voluntary work.

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My life in Progress | Josh

Josh, 30, has autism and a moderate learning disability. He has been living in his home in Surrey for the last four years.

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My life in Progress | Michael

Hello, my name's Michael, and this is my life at progress working in the senior property services admin team.

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My life in Progress | Andrea

Meet Andrea, who works at Key Unlocking Futures.

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My life in Progress | Adrian

My name's Adrian I'm 19, and I'm a plumbing and heating apprentice here at Progress.

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Ash's blog - my shared parental leave

Taking shared parental leave last year really benefited my family.

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Neil's Blog - the importance of LGBTQ+ role models at work

Progress Housing Group's Non-Executive Director, Neil Townsend, on the importance of visible LGBTQ+ role models at work and equality, diversity and inclusion support in the housing sector.

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Tola's blog - for Black History Month

As part of a series of Black History Month articles, we speak to Tola, our Head of Operations (Income and Communities) about equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging

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Susannah's blog - belonging and our LGBTQ+ Network Group

For LGBT+ History Month 2021, Susannah, one of our Progress Lifeline Control Centre Operators, spoke to us about her experience of joining Progress Housing Group, the importance of being part of an inclusive organisation, and how our employee-led LGBTQ+ Network is going from strength to strength.

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​Rachael's blog: Pride is a protest AND a party.

Progress Lifeline's Alarm Response Centre Team Leader, Rachael, shares her Pride experiences.

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Kirsty's blog - What Windrush means to me

Our Head of Operations (Homes and Opportunities), Kirsty Ellis, shares her family's experience of Windrush.

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Ali's blog - International Women's Day

Opinion piece: Ali Hughes, Project Leader for Progress Lifeline at Progress Housing Group, discusses why International Women's Day this year is more important than ever.

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Bernie's blog - the importance of providing Specialised Supported Housing

Bernie Keenan, Deputy Chief Executive for Progress Housing Group, discusses the importance of providing Specialised Supported Housing.

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Kulli's blog - South Asian Heritage Month and what it means for me

As part of a series of South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) articles, we speak to our Supported Living Housing Manager, Kulli, about what marking and celebrating the month means to him.

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Luke's blog - my journey to board member with Progress Housing Group and the Board Diversity Programme

Luke Jno-Baptiste joined Progress Housing Group as a Trainee Non-Executive Director as part of the Achieving and Harnessing Board Diversity programme, developed and pioneered by Progress Housing Group, Housing Diversity Network and Together Housing Group. Here, Luke speaks to us about his journey to becoming a board member...

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Loraine's blog - the benefits of an LGBTQ+ inclusive workplace

We recently spoke to Progress Lifeline Services Director, Loraine Simpson about the pivotal role of workplaces as a safe and inclusive place for LGBTQ+ employees. Loraine is openly gay and has been married for five years. Here is what she had to say…

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Annette's blog - Disability History Month

Progress Housing Group Operations Director, Annette Stevens, writes for Disability History Month UK

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Loraine's blog - being a carer

In 2018, I stepped into a caring and supporting role for my parents. My Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy, and at about the same time, my Mum received a diagnosis of dementia. Previously, visits to my parents had been once or twice a month, as well as chats over the phone, meals out, etc.; this changed almost overnight. Following their diagnosis, I saw my parents up to three times a week, increasing to visiting most days. The visits were for food shopping, helping with household chores, and emotional support. On top of this, I was balancing my own home life and working full-time. Whilst this change to my circumstances was personally challenging, I am fortunate to work for Progress Housing Group, an organisation that is supportive and could offer help.

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Meet our tenants from North-west Wales

Meet our tenants from North-west Wales

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Meet Josh

Josh, 30, has autism and a moderate learning disability. He has been living in his home in Surrey for the last four years.

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Meet Ben

Ben is one of our tenants and recently won a Hero of the Day Award from his support provider. He had to think on his feet when his support worker collapsed.

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Meet Daisy

Daisy is a fun-loving young lady with complex health needs, but she does not let that get in her way. After 11 years of searching for a housing solution, 34-year-old Daisy is finally moving into a bungalow in a village near Leeds.

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Meet John-Paul, Brian & John

John-Paul, Brian and John took part in a vegetable growing competition at their home.

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James lives in Leeds

James shares his home in Leeds with three other tenants. The kitchen was recently renovated to a very high standard with a lowered worksurface to make access much easier.

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Meet Jason

Jason is 19 years old and lives with his mum, a tenant of Progress Housing Group. Jason left Runshaw College following his further education studies. He was employed in a warehouse temporarily over the Christmas season in 2019. The position there came to an end, and he began receiving Universal Credit.

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Meet Keith

Challenges at home and a complicated relationship with his son had resulted in Keith feeling depressed, lonely and anxious.

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Meet Maria

Maria moved to England from the Dominican Republic in 2012 to pursue a better and safer life. Maria became a Progress Housing Group tenant in March 2018, shortly after giving birth to her two daughters.

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Meet Sue

When Sue's husband, Bill, passed away in November 2020, Sue started to struggle financially and accumulated debts.

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Meet Tony and Dawn

Tony lives with Meniere's disease and poor mobility, making him susceptible to falls. He also uses hearing aids, has a pacemaker fitted and has lung damage from repeated bouts of pneumonia.

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Meet John and Andrew

Progress Housing Group tenant, John, lives in Lytham St Annes, with his partner and care provider, Andrew. John currently has the Progress Lifeline Vi unit and pendant due to his health conditions.

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Meet Glen

Glen lives in a supported living scheme. He lives in a ground floor property that is suited to his needs and health conditions. Before being a Progress Housing Group tenant, Glen was unhappy and taken advantage of by his previous landlady. He felt unsafe to leave his home and felt isolated.

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A day in the life for Callum, a Progress Housing Group apprentice joiner.

Callum is 16 and lives in Penwortham. He joined Progress Housing Group as an apprentice joiner in December 2020 after working with our Progress Futures Team.

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Living well with dementia: John's story

Progress Lifeline service user John tells us his story of living with dementia, and how our home technology and remote monitoring helps him and his family.

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Callum

Callum has autistic spectrum disorder traits. Key has given Callum and his mother a better understanding of how Callum might be feeling and why.

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Progress Lifeline - Margaret and Peter's Story

Margaret and her husband Peter joined Progress Lifeline to support Peter, who has dementia.

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Supported living tenant, David's Story

Our supported living tenant, David, shares his story with us for World Autism Awareness Week 2021.

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Neil's story

Progress Housing Group helped Neil, who has complex learning difficulties and autism, gain independence and a home of his own.

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Les and Anne's Story

Les and Anne have known each other for 15 years, and lived together in supported living accommodation.

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Sheena's Story

Meet Sheena, she works for the NHS, has two young children. She is also a survivor of domestic abuse.

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Will's Story

About a year ago, Will let everything get on top of him and really battled with his mental health.

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Harry's Story

Harry is 9 years old. He witnessed domestic violence between his mum and her ex-partner over a prolonged period

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Rachael's Story

Rachael is a mother of three, and has been a tenant for 20 years.

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Tom's Story

Tom lives in a top floor flat. He has autism and learning difficulties.

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Hannah - an inspirational journey from The Bridge

Hannah is a resident of The Bridge, one of our purpose built housing schemes for young people aged 16-25 who are experiencing homelessness, and has been with us for nearly two years.

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Dawn's story

After a relationship breakdown, teaching assistant Dawn, needed a place of her own. Thinking she couldn’t afford to buy, Dawn started to look for a home to rent. But then she heard about our shared ownership properties at the Riverside scheme in Lancaster.

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Adam's story

As part of our commitment to creating a stronger organisation, we teamed up with Together Housing and the Housing Diversity Network to pioneer Achieving and Harnessing Board Diversity, an award winning pilot programme which aims to identify the next generation of influencers from all walks of life and develop them into candidates for a board-ready talent pool.

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David's story

David from St Annes was struggling to pay his rent and faced losing his home. David was going through a tough period in his life. His wife had recently passed away and his daughter was diagnosed as being critically ill.

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Oliver's story

When 21-year-old Oliver saw an advert in the tenants’ newsletter for apprenticeship positions with the Group, he jumped at the chance. Oliver had always wanted to be a tradesperson so he applied for the apprentice position.

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Julie's story

Julie has been living at one of our independent living schemes for 12 years. Julie has a disability but is able to have as much independence as she wants, with help available if she needs it.

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Oli's story

Twenty-year-old Oli's was homeless when he came to Parker House, our supported housing scheme for young people in Chorley, earlier this year.

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Mrs Parehk's story

Mrs Parekh was born with polio. When her children moved away it left her feeling lonely and worried about what would happen if she had a fall

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Ron and Lynda's story

After suffering a stroke, a package of home telecare sensors from our Progress Lifeline service, including a fall detector, helped newlywed Lynda rebuild her independence and confidence, and supported Ron in his new role as Lynda’s carer.

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Hannah's story

After a family breakdown and finding herself facing homelessness and suffering from poor mental health, 17 year old Hannah reached out to Key for support. With Key's help, Hannah moved into supported housing, learned coping strategies, rebuilt her relationship with her parents and gained the skills needed to move into her own home, employment and future study.

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Cat's story

Cat was living in private rented accommodation in Chorley but wanted to be closer to her family in Leyland. Whilst looking at renting in Leyland they found out that they qualified for shared ownership and could start on the path to owning their own home.

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Kinga's story

After completing three months of work experience, Progress Futures helped Kinga with her CV, applying for jobs and finding courses to improve her employment opportunities. She believes that Progress Futures has really changed her life!

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James' story

Prior to engaging with Progress Futures, James was lacking self-confidence when it came to writing CVs and finding work. After some one-to-one coaching and support, James applied for a position with Progress Housing Group in the Supported Living team and was offered the job.

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Sian's story

Sian, a Progress Housing Group tenant, approached our Progress Futures service for help in securing paid employment. Not only did Sian gain a new job and new skills through the service, but the confidence to fulfill her aim for financial independence.

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Dawn's Progress Futures story

Having been long-term employed, Dawn unfortunately found herself out of work after being made redundant. Progress Future's helped Dawn get to grips with the new ways of applying for jobs and got her back into work.

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Sasha's story

By fixing appliances when they broke, Sasha developed a passion for electronics. Three and a half years into her electrical apprenticeship, Sasha discusses her hopes for the future.

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Georgia's story

After being asked to leave home, Georgia faced indefinite sofa surfing until Key stepped in with support to help her create a home to call her own.

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Linda and Hannah's story

In this film produced by the ITN for the CIH conference, tenants Linda and Hannah explain the positive impact our supported living accommodation has had on their lives.

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Challenge 25K

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£600 raised for local food banks at Christmas

A charity Christmas fundraiser for local foodbanks

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Joanne raises money for St Catherine's Hospice

Joanne raises money for St Catherine's Hospice by taking part in their biggest annual fundraising event, the Moonlight and Memories Walk.

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Specially designed pyjamas for Theo

Theo was only three years old when he was diagnosed with A.L.L, a severe form of Leukaemia. Progress Housing Group helped fund the design and production of some special pyjamas to help administer Theo's medication by hickman line.

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Annette's 'Brave the Shave'

Annette Mellor, Independent Living Co-ordinator, at Progress Housing Group, decided to 'Brave the Shave' for Macmillan.

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Raising money for Blackpool's Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children's Hospice

Chorley and South Ribble Women's Refuge Manager, Liz, runs 17.5k to raise funds for local hospices.

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Charity fishing competition hooks in staff from Progress Housing Group and Berry's

16 anglers from Progress Housing Group and C&W Berry competed in a fishing completion at High Heyes Farm Fishery to raise money for Papyrus

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Our Executive Team get their groove on to raise funds

Workin' at the car wash!

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Amanda toughs it out to raise funds for Help the Heroes

The Group's Operations Director for Digital Services, Amanda Van Duyvenvoorde, completed a gruelling five mile Hero's assault course on Avenham Park in July to raise money for Help the Heroes

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Teams raise dough for dementia charity

Teams dust off their baking bowls and whip out their whisks to raise some dough for people affected by dementia.

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Make May Purple - staff take action on stroke

Progress Housing Group turned purple in May to raise money and awareness for the Stroke Association

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Staff take a walk in the dark to raise funds for Chorley and Preston hospitals

Staff from Progress Housing Group joined forces with Team Rosemere to help smash its £55k target at the cancer charity's biggest event of the year

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Anna pledges to hike her way to £1000 for Macmillan

Anna will take on the Mighty Hike to walk 26 miles for Macmillan Cancer Support on the 13th July 2019 in support of her close friend and colleague.

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Carol signs up for the London Marathon to raise funds for Galloway's

Carol, one of our Progress Lifeline Team members, hit the tarmac this year to raise funds for local charity Galloway's Society for the Blind by running the London Marathon

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The Group's Digital Services team ditch motherboards for mixing bowls to raise funds for Derian House

The Group's Digital Services Team ditch motherboards for mixing bowls to raise funds for Derian House Children's Hospice

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Baby sweepstake raises funds for Derian House

Expectant parents Matt, the Group's Technical Developer and Ali, Progress Lifeline's Project Manager raised funds in April for Children's Hospice Derian House.

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Walking boots and a 22 mile challenge to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society

Staff from across the Group set themselves the challenge to raise money for charity by completing a gruelling 22 mile walk around Coniston

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Staff support local foodbanks

Local foodbanks in Leyland and the Fylde Coast have recieved a cash boost of £400 plus donations from staff at Progress Housing Group.

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