Sovereign Housing Association has joined Business in the Community (BITC), the largest and longest established business-led network dedicated to responsible business

Steve Brine, MP for Winchester and Chandlers Ford, met with Mark Washer, Sovereign CEO, and Harry Lewis, Berkeley Southern Managing Director, at their Knights Quarter development in Winchester city

A notice from the Regulator of Social Housing that Sovereign’s management of statutory health and safety compliance has breached Home Standard requirements.

Sovereign Housing Association launched a survey on Monday 17 January 2022 to gain feedback from those who’ve used its domestic abuse support services.

Graffiti artist Hazard is painting murals chosen by our customers in Bristol to cover persistent tagging. The three large paintings feature much loved local people and flags of those in the community.

Social value was a new priority for Sovereign Housing Association recently as it selected the 17 solicitors’ firms that it will work with over the next five years.

Sovereign Housing Association donated £500 to Tisbury Children's Community Garden to set the group on its way to a green-fingered future.

Joyce Ward, a former English teacher from just outside Wantage, Oxfordshire has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list.

Sovereign launched their shared ownership homes at the Knights Quarter development in the centre of Winchester.

Sovereign is the first housing association in the UK to launch a partnership with Kaleida, a B2B marketplace that allows procurement teams to advertise tenders and connect with diverse suppliers.

Countryside and Sovereign joint-venture partnership to acquire 365-acre Lotmead Farm, Swindon, to deliver up to 2,500 homes

Sovereign Housing Association, working with The Good Exchange, has grants available for community projects that focus on supporting people to upskill, access training, find work or self-employment.

Ten projects, submitted by locals in East Cowes, Newport and Ryde, will receive a share of over £37.7k from Sovereign’s Your Community Your Choice (YCYC) programme

We've given further funding of £5,000 to Young Bristol mini cap project with Clarion Futures, the charitable foundation of the Clarion Housing Group providing match funding.

Sovereign releases Q2 performance update reports good progress for the first half of the new 2021/22 financial year based on unaudited management accounts.

Sovereign Housing Association has launched a £150,000 fund to help its customers buy all kinds of items and services from white goods to work clothes.

Sovereign CEO, Mark Washer, and Rob Perrins, CEO, Berkeley, celebrate affordable homes being created at the iconic Horlicks Quarter, Slough’s first new major residential town centre scheme.

Sovereign Housing Association is working alongside Bristol residents to transform the outdoor spaces around where they live.

Six people in North Dorset currently experiencing homelessness will have a new place to call their own thanks to a partnership between Sovereign Housing Association and Dorset County Council.

Young people from Sovereign's Youth Panel will have an opportunity to pick the brains of internet sensation Jackie Weaver during an online one-on-one session on 26 September.

Community projects and charities based within three miles of Sovereign homes in the South and South West can apply for a share of £80,500 to boost the fundraising they’ve already done.

As many as 60 families could benefit from free food kits and an online cookery course being run by Bristol’s cookery school, Square Food Foundation and Sovereign.

Sovereign is investing more than £25k over the next year to offer free training and grant funding to support entrepreneurs running their own business or moving to self employment.

Sovereign is running a free webinar to support those across the south of England considering their work options as furlough draws to an end.

Six people who have experienced long-term homelessness will have a place to call their own thanks to a new venture between Sovereign and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.

Sovereign Housing Association is making £150k in grants available to residents across its geography as part of its Thriving Communities strategy.

Sovereign has formed a new strategic partnership with Homes England to deliver 3,338 affordable homes, with a new allocation of grant funding worth £166.9m.

Sovereign, working with not-for-profit digital fundraising platform The Good Exchange, gave grants between £1,000 and £5,520 to community projects that focused on health and wellbeing.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is working with local housing providers and other partners to offer homes for families who have had to leave Afghanistan.

Sovereign Housing Association continues to demonstrate strong progress for the first quarter of the new 2021/22 financial year.

Steele Raymond have advised Pennyfarthing Homes on the sale of 66 residential units to Sovereign, located on the new Potters Wood site in Verwood, Dorset.

Emerson’s Green residents will enjoy the sound of music from the Ham Farm Festival this weekend, 25 to 28 July, thanks to a funding boost by Sovereign.

Empire Fighting Chance partners with Sovereign and Clarion Housing to deliver a school holidays boxing programme for vulnerable young people.

A new festival in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, is celebrating the unusual skills and talents of its young residents aged 18 to 25.

Sovereign launches new £10k partnership with switching service ‘Pocket Power’ to support those of its customers struggling with fuel poverty.

The Foyer on the Isle of Wight has gained national accreditation for ‘its impressive commitment to investment in young people’.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has today confirmed that Sovereign has maintained the highest rating of G1/V1.

Sovereign has teamed up with the south west-based The Women’s Work Lab to offer a free employment and training course for mums.

A group of 13 young people from Bristol aged 5-10 years old are coming out of lockdown raring to go on community projects, thanks to funding of £2,000.

Sovereign residents living in Abingdon are invited to submit project ideas for creating great outdoor spaces for their whole community.

On Friday 7 May the topping out ceremony was held to celebrate progress at the former Magistrates’ Court in Kennedy Way, Yate.

Two community larders will launch over the next few months in West Berkshire offering local residents the chance to save both pounds and the planet.

Newbury Town Council is pleased to announce the unveiling of a blue plaque for the first person in the world to be treated with Penicillin.

Sovereign's gender pay gap is low at 1.7% - but the housing association says it will continue to strive for parity for women.

Leadership 2025 has announced the appointment of six new board members, including Sovereign’s CEO Mark Washer.

Sovereign wants to lend even more support to those in their communities seeking employment or training offers.

Leading housing association Sovereign is continuing its work with not-for-profit digital fundraising platform The Good Exchange for a further two years.

Twenty-one groups, charities and individuals put in a bid to try and win up to £10,000 funding from housing association Sovereign during the winter lockdown.

Fifteen groups, charities and individuals put in a bid to try and win up to £20,000 funding from housing association Sovereign during the winter lockdown.

£32,000 from Sovereign has seen 3,000 young people from 10 different schools talk to 800 businesses about employment opportunities for the future.

Sovereign Housing Association has launched a Homes and Place Standard which will be the quality benchmark for every property it owns and for the communities where its customers live.

Sovereign Housing Association has 40 paid work placements available through its Kickstart job placement scheme. The roles are open to anyone aged 16-24 and currently on Universal Credit.

Innovative environmental art project ‘Moths to a Flame’ has been funded £10,000 via the Sovereign Housing Association Thriving Communities Fund.

Nine young people living in homes owned or managed by Sovereign Housing Association have started a new forum so that they can have their say on the future of housing.

Outstanding public speaker and leadership coach Pamela Leonce has joined the Board at Sovereign Housing Association.

In just four weeks, 150 fabulous food boxes worth nearly £30 each have been distributed to families and individuals across Bristol by community group Mamas Bristol CIC.

Sovereign is working in partnership with Miller Homes, and investing almost £50m into building 136 as part of the Miller Homes @ Cleve Wood development.

Sovereign Housing Association has purchased a 5.2 hectare former stables site in Ash near Aldershot to build 60 elegant new affordable homes for the local area.

Sovereign has today announced that Nicole Sharp will take up a new role as Chief Operating Officer the role will encompass all our customer-facing operations.

In Children’s Mental Health Week (1-7 February) we’re highlighting some the projects we’ve worked on with charity providers via the Good Exchange and Crowdfunder.

Sovereign Housing Association donations will give disadvantaged children access to laptops so they can learn from home during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Sovereign Housing Association is offering 40 young people the chance to kickstart their careers with a six-month paid work placement in departments across the organisation.

The Isle of Wight’s two leading housing associations have teamed up to help give islanders essential skills as the economy recovers after Covid-19.

Tom Titherington, is calling for all housing developers and planners to embed older people’s housing needs into their working practices.

Sovereign has today announced that Sally Hyndman has been appointed as the new Chief People Officer and that she will take up her post on 18 January 2021.

An old industrial estate in Thatcham is being turned into a brand new development which will bring much needed affordable homes to the area.

Sovereign joined teams of people including the MP for Newbury, Laura Farris and her family, to plant 200 saplings in a new ‘Lockdown Wood’.

The RHS awarded Sovereign’s housing for older people scheme, Carnarvon Place, a Certificate of Recognition for their Community Garden.

We've teamed up with VocalEyes to provide a platform for local residents to decide how £40K is spent in their community in Bristol.

Sovereign is supporting the Trussell Trust charity and the ‘More Than Homes’ campaign that aims to put food on the table for vulnerable people in the UK.

Sovereign is highlighting the need to support their residents most in need on National Fuel Poverty Awareness Day today, Friday 27 November.

Sovereign, Clarion Futures, and Fusion21 are confirmed as the first investors in HACT’s social value roadmap to measure social impact.

Sovereign Housing Association is helping their elderly Devon residents keep busy and keep loneliness at bay during lockdown.

Sovereign Housing Association is giving out activity packs to help some of its most vulnerable residents get through the long days ahead.