Colne Housing

Enabling Independent Living Colne is a vibrant, growing housing association specialising in enabling independent living. We want to meet housing need in East Anglia. As a major builder we will provide a range of new homes of all types of tenure to meet the needs of our current and future customers in Essex, Suffolk and beyond. We will encourage our customers to shape their own solutions offering appropriate support where needed. We design our services in response to our customers’ needs and provide a choice of high-quality services. How do we do it? It is not just what we do, but how we do it, which matters to us. How we work with our residents, other customers, staff and partners defines who we are. Our values are important to us as they reflect our culture, ethos and are an integral part of the services we deliver: Pride – in our organisation, in our professionalism and in our work Team spirited – in our approach to shaping the best solutions for our customers Taking personal responsibility – we will not pass the buck. And we will ensure that along the way we have plenty of Fun! Our homes We currently own or manage around 3,000 homes throughout north Essex and south Suffolk. We build homes for affordable rent and shared ownership. We have eight sheltered housing schemes and nearly 150 bed spaces for vulnerable clients, most are managed on Colne’s behalf by specialist agencies. Colne provides direct management support to customers with learning difficulties and young families. We are a Corporate Trustee to a number of almshouses, provide leasehold management services to the private sector, and housing, supported housing maintenance, payroll and financial services to other organisations. We also operate private sector leasing and empty homes schemes which offer accommodation to homeless people who would otherwise be in bed and breakfast and bring empty properties back into use.