Today we have a very special episode of Our House where we discuss the local housing approach that award winning social landlord, EastendHomes, prides itself on and why this approach benefits the communities they serve. We reflect on research about this from the London School of Economics and get four different perspectives on why the 'neighbourhood management' approach helps the community.

Our guests include Laura from the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, part of the London School of Economics and Stephen from EastendHomes. We also welcome back Sheena, a local housing officer at EastendHomes and Forhana, a resident and board member of EastendHomes.

We begin the episode by talking about social value within social housing and how both residents and housing staff benefit from having a local housing officer. We then touch how a local housing approach serves diverse communities and offers value for money.

This episode brings the second series of Our House to a close. We hope you've enjoyed hearing the wonderful stories of various people who make up East London. If you liked this series, please rate it, follow us and share with a friend! We hope to see you again for a new series very soon.

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In our final episode of this series, Helen chats to some of the lovely people from the Holland Estate in Spitalfields. We start the episode by hearing from Tim Elliott, a project manager at the Holland Estate. He discusses how residents, like himself, transformed a play space for the young people in their area in partnership with EastendHomes. We then hear from Iyana and Mejubin, two young people living on the Holland Estate who use the play area every day. They tell us what they like about the space and why it is a place where they feel safe to have fun with their friends.

Thanks so much to you all for tuning into the second series of Our House. We've loved sharing so many special conversations with you and learning more about the amazing people that make up London's East End.

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This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen welcomes Laurie Allen - a local historian who shares the fascinating history of Tower Hamlets with us.

Laurie tells us about his childhood growing up around Spitalfields, how the community has changed over time and how his life experiences in the East End have shaped him.

If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! Tune in next week for the last episode of the series.

This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen chats to Isle of Dogs Food Bank in Christ Church, Tower Hamlets as they're in the middle of their Jubilee street party! They discuss what they're doing for their party and what community means to them.

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This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen chats to Jack, Lewis and Aaron - the brilliant horticultural team at EastendHomes.

They discuss the kind of flowers they've been planting for residents, advice for how we can take care of our plants at home and how they're pairing up with corporations in East London like Morgan Stanley to onboard more volunteers!

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This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen is joined by one of EastendHomes' residents and volunteers, Tania Nalywajko, who has lived in Mile End for 38 years. She tells us more about the street party she's organising for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee!

Tania shares why she's coordinating the street party and why she enjoys volunteering for her community.

We also find out what community means to some of the young people who live in Mile End and are coming along to the street party.

If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! And if you live in Mile End, you can come down and join the street party on Saturday 4th June.

This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to another episode of Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

This week in the UK marks mental health awareness week and this year's theme is loneliness. We thought it was apt to return to a lovely episode from our first series where an amazing member of the EastendHomes team is helping to combat loneliness in her local community.

Helen chats to housing officer, Judith Riley. Judith is a woman of many talents - balancing her role at EastendHomes with two (yes two!) other projects. She talks about Here's a Hug, a project she set up in 2020 to knit scarves and hats for homeless people around East London. She also tells us all about her love for baking, which she shares with others through her patisserie company - Love Me Take Me Home.

If you'd like to volunteer or donate to Here's a Hug, you can email them at heresahug2020@gmail.com or connect with them on their Facebook page.

If you'd like to purchase some of Judith's amazing baked goods, contact her via Instagram @lmtmh.info

This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

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Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen is joined by Rachel Ledwith from The Felix Project, Paul Wilson from EastendHomes and Helen, Ruby and Forhana from Food for Aldgate. They discuss their mission to reduce food waste in East London and beyond.

We start by with learning more about The Felix Project from Rachel, the head of community engagement. Rachel shares how The Felix Project came to be and what motivated her to start working within food redistribution.

We also hear from Paul Wilson, the Community Engagement Manager at EastendHomes. He talks about why he helped set up Food for Aldgate and the impact that partnerships with other likeminded community organisations have had.

Helen also chats to the volunteers from Food for Aldgate - Helen, Forhana and Ruby. They discuss why they got involved in the project and how they think it's helped their local community.

If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! And if you would like to get involved in volunteering for The Felix Project, they're always looking for new volunteers - you can sign up here!

This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!

Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast