Curo breaks ground at Locking Parklands Phase 4
Curo has begun works at a new 124-home development in Locking, Weston-super-Mare. A special ceremony was held to mark the beginning of works on site.
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Episode 5 : Answering your money and benefits questions
This episode we welcome back Sarah Rogers, Curo’s Customer Account Manager, to answer some of your questions on benefits and money matters. We asked customers via email to send in their questions, for a chance to win £25 in Love2Shop vouchers. Congratulations to Flaciah, who was picked at random to win. Thank you to everyone who sent us their questions and sorry if we d…
Get support on Council Tax rises
Council Tax bills are set to rise from April 2023, but support may be available to you. Sarah Rogers, Curo’s Customer Accounts Manager, answers some common questions. What is Council Tax? Council Tax is an annual fee you pay to your local council. The cost is set by your council and goes towards funding local services, such as rubbish collections, transport, parking, and…
Time to get EGG-sited
Show off your creative side in our 2023 VoiceBox Easter bonnet competition. To get involved get in touch with us at VoiceBox@Curo-group.co.uk and request your FREE Easter bonnet starter kit. We would like you to get creative and add your own items to your bonnet to make it EGG-stra special, unique and eye-catching. To enter head over to the VoiceBox forum competition p…
£1m funding award to make Curo homes more energy efficient
People living in 113 homes owned by Curo are set to benefit from a £2.07m programme of improvements designed to help them save money on energy bills and reduce the carbon emissions of their properties.
Curo plants 900 trees across its estates
Curo is celebrating the end of a successful tree-planting season, which has seen 900 trees planted across its estates. Tree-planting season runs between November and March, when trees are dormant. The success rate of trees planted during this time greatly increases. Curo replace every tree they fell, though not always in the same place or with the same species. Sen…
Donation to Yatton school means new play area for local children
Pupils at a local primary school in Yatton are enjoying a new play area after Curo made a generous donation towards the purchase.
“The Money Advice service is a godsend”
Curo customer Brigid Nolan describes how Andrea Wyithe, our Money & New Customer Advisor, helped to transform her finances. Brigid says: “I’m so grateful to Andrea. I’m 65 years old and I’ve had a hard life, with a lot of health issues. I was struggling with my rent and had fallen into arrears, when Andrea contacted me to see if she could help. “We made an appointment for Andrea t…
Celebrating International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked Julie Evans, Curo’s Executive Director of Property Services, what it’s like to be a female leader in housing. What made you embark on a career in housing? It was never my ambition to work in housing, simply because I never thought of it as a career. I was in my second year studying English Literature at Swansea University w…
Investing in our customers’ homes
Curo has committed to spending £142m on customers’ homes over the next 10 years through our new long-term property investment plan.