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We recognise diversity in society, and one of our key values is to be inclusive.

We encouraged tenants to take part in a competition by sharing how they are helping the planet.

If you are currently claiming Universal Credit, from 05 April onwards you will receive a ‘to do’ notification on your UC online journal called ‘Confirm your Housing Costs’. Below is an example of what this ‘to do’ task will look like.

Saturday, 27 March marks the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Earth Hour, where millions of people around the world switch off their non-essential lights for an hour in the evening to show they care about the future of our planet.

Due to a major fire at Hemsworth telephone exchange on Sunday, 21 March 2021, a number of our Care Link customers’ alarms were affected.

Undoubtedly COVID-19 continues to have impact on all our lives and the health and wellbeing of our customers and employees remains our priority. To keep everyone as safe as possible, we have adapted and scaled back some of our services, including our Hubs and Services Access Points (SAPs) remaining closed.

The Warm Home Discount Scheme, a one-off discount on your electricity bill, is still available to tenants up to 31 March.

Local housing association WDH has donated 62 laptops to the WF Connect project to help disadvantaged children and young people in the Wakefield district with their remote learning.

Would you like to get active and learn new skills through football?

I am sure you will all agree that 2020 been a very challenging year. Whether you have been isolating at home, continuing to work, combining work with playing the role of teacher or carer, have overcome the virus yourself or have tragically lost a loved one, I think it is safe to say that all of us have been affected in some way by this pandemic. I hope that we may now be over the worst and we might be able to look towards a more positive 2021.