News 7 Help at your fingertips


MANY customers are used to paying their bills or reporting a repair over the phone or by speaking to our staff. Now we are giving you more choice in


how you access our services. Our online site allows you to do much


more on the internet than ever before. This includes seeing your account and balance, making payments and reporting a repair. Our improved online services launched last Autumn, and already over 1800 customers have signed up to use the system.


Go online for easy access to services


If you haven’t signed up already, you’ll need a registration code as well as your account number. You also need to have an email address. If you don’t have one it’s easy to set up a free email account. Once you have registered, you’ll be able to see your account, check your balance, pay your rent, book repair appointments and much more. We wrote to you late last year with


your registration number. If you want to register, but can’t find your letter, just give us a call on 0800 479 7979.


Can you hit


the right note? IF YOU’RE a young up-and- coming musician, why not take part in a musical project with a difference? YourPlace’s sister organisation,


Loretto Care, is looking for young, musical people to take part in a new project called ‘The Ensemble’. The project, funded by mental health charity SeeMe Scotland is for young people aged 16 to 25 who love music and who have experience of mental health issues like depression or anxiety. The young people will be


invited to take part in song writing blocks with a view to writing and performing their own music at concerts across Central Scotland.


Wheatley Pledge is really working


THE Wheatley Pledge is a £1.5m scheme to get contractors and suppliers of Wheatley Group - including YourPlace - to do more for people living in our communities, including creating new jobs and apprenticeships. Companies who sign up to the Wheatley Pledge receive a wage incentive from Wheatley Group for any new apprenticeship or job they create. Since its launch in August 2013, 237 jobs and training opportunities have been pledged, with 35 YourPlace customers benefiting from these


JUST THE JOB: Kieran Allison


opportunities. Companies who have signed the Wheatley Pledge include Virgin Media, Ernst & Young and City Building. Kieran Allison, 18, from


Robroyston, lives in a YourPlace home and is


currently an apprentice in joinery and carpentry with City Building. He said: “I am really enjoying my apprenticeship with City Building as part of the Wheatley Pledge. The thing I have enjoyed most is being able to carry out all the practical work, which I am working really hard on.” To find out more, email wheatley.pledge@ wheatley-group.com. You can also visit http:// www.wheatley-group. com/improving-lives/ wheatley-pledge/ to check out the latest opportunities.


STRUM-THING SPECIAL: Mamie Rodgers is taking part in The Ensemble


The goal of The Ensemble is to help young, musical people develop their talent, grow their confidence and challenge the stigma surrounding mental health issues. The first free song writing sessions took place at The Academy in Lipton House on Crown Street, Glasgow in June. More song writing blocks are planned for July and August. For more information, phone 0141 274 7622 or email michaelt1@LorettoHA.co.uk


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8