Meet the people growing our communities

Stuart provides personalised, 1-2-1 employment and training support to Skills 4 Work participants

We supported Zion Bristol with a £3,500 grant to adapt its entranceway to make it more inclusive.

We gave charity Pramalife £4,000 to supports its launch of Telephone Friendship Groups.

We supported Bristol's Window Wanderland, which provided resources for communities to set up their own magical illuminated window displays.

Ebony Taylorson juggles a busy schedule. Despite this, she joined our Youth Housing Panel. Here she tells us more about why signing up was important to her.

Simone is a trainee plumber at Sovereign. She explains why this new direction was the right one for her.

Jane Carmichael is a military spouse. She’s also Sovereign Housing Association’s PR Specialist. Here she discusses her experience of joining the Aspire programme.

Sophie has worked in tenancy management for seven years as a Housing Officer she talks about her decision to join the Aspire programme, and develop her leadership skills for the future.

Stevie Chadwick talks about her apprenticeship in our Communities team and how the HDN mentoring programme helped her 'step up'.

We’ve supported a new commemorative garden at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

Sovereign supported self-employed Nicola with a £700 grant to focus her counselling business on helping those with eating disorders.

This Spring, volunteers delivered spring-themed treats to 104 older people at risk of isolation.

More than one hundred hand-knitted chicks will be handed out by the Botley Community Larder along with fresh fruit and veg.

Kaylee is an apprentice plumber at Sovereign. She explains why she enjoys having a role where she can fix things. 

Abingdon and Witney college students have been writing postcards throughout lockdown to residents living at two Oxfordshire Housing for Older People schemes.

Older people from Basingstoke gained a bunch of fun new pals during lockdown, thanks to the sterling efforts of charity InCommon.

Sovereign has helped the West Wight Men in Sheds, based on the Isle of Wight, with a £500 grant to insure their new community van.

We invested £1,000 in Oasis-Talk’s online wellbeing course giving 10 over-55s, who have been shielding at home the opportunity to share their experiences.

Neighbourhood community group Cllick approached us to help facilitate a Seeds and Feeds edible growing and gardening project for one of our housing for older people schemes.

Dementia Friendly West Berkshire (DFWB) has launched a new website thanks to £700 funding from Sovereign Housing Association.

Lockdown has put a pause on many of our residents’ aspirations. But Keyleigh, a Sovereign resident from Tiverton remains positive.

Writing has been a passion for Ryan and moving into his Sovereign home and living alone for the first time gave him the time he needed to focus on his future career plans.

Picking up the keys to your new home is a big moment, but for 30-year-old Samatar Maygag it was life changing.