“We want LGBTQ+ customers to feel safe”
As Curo launches our new LGBTQ+ Resident Engagement Group, Paul Shearer, Planning Lettings Negotiator, talks about his experiences of homelessness and growing up gay.
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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…
Black History Month: Fairfield House and a social club for all ages
I’m a proud Bathonian. One of three Ifill children, I was born and raised in Bath, my parents are from Bath and Birmingham and I have extended family who originate from Barbados, Jamaica, St. Kitts, and from Britain going back three generations. I grew up in suburban Oldfield Park in a terraced house that my parents were lucky enough to buy in the 1980s. It was quiet, with no…
Written by: Darren Ifill
Social Housing has a Black History
Curo recently formed a new racial equality colleague network – called Originem (Latin for ‘origin’) – and we’re using Black History Month (BHM) to empower, educate and celebrate. This is very personal for me as my parents were part of the Windrush generation coming to England for better opportunities. However instead of being welcomed they were faced with various forms of racism and signs that read 'No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs' when they were looking for a home.
Written by: Judith Forde
Black Lives Matters - taking inspiration from our young residents
Rebecca Neusinger reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement and takes inspiration from the young people she works with as a Curo Support Worker - people like Jackson, a young man who's experienced racial discrimination through his life, overcoming barriers in setting up his business.
Written by: Rebecca Neusinger