ESG Report

Environmental,

Social and

Governance report

(ESG report)

2021/22

Welcome

Board and trustees

Pay gap

In May 2022 we launched our new five-year strategy. Given the success of our previous plan there was no need for major readjustments. Our focus remains on building the right homes in the right places, supporting our customers and helping our communities to grow.

Nusheen Hussain, Executive Director of Customers and Communities

Home Group Board 6 Male / 6 female Executive team 4 male / 2 female

Gender

Board and trustees

Our board and executive team demographics are:

Gender

Case studies

Disability

Home Group Board 2 out of 12 Executive team 1 out of 6

Disability

Average age

Home Group Board 59 Executive team 53

Average age

Ethnicity

Home Group Board 16.7% Executive team 8.3%

Ethnicity

Case studies

Home Group's approach to pay

Earlier this year Becky Leonard-Dixon was on stage in Manchester picking up the 2022 Women in Housing Inclusion Champion Award. Ten years earlier Becky couldn’t have been any further from receiving such an accolade. She was in a very dark place, living in a mental health service, struggling with a range of serious issues. Since then, Becky has been on a journey with Home Group which has seen her be a customer, a volunteer, a colleague, and a mentor. We are so proud to have played a very small part in helping to get her to that Manchester stage. The heavy work was all Becky. She said: “The person-centred support I’ve had, the inclusive environment and the opportunities to progress from customer to volunteer, to apprentice and now permanent colleague, gave me what I needed to manage the change and sustain my wellbeing long-term alongside a job I love!” Becky’s story at Home Group is not unique and she has been a vocal, passionate part of the team implementing mentoring, networks, and opportunities so that we can continue to support our customers and colleagues to thrive.

Becky Leonard-Dixon

Apprenticeships have proven to be an excellent way of providing on-the-job learning and career opportunities to customers of all ages and backgrounds. At Home Group, we are fully focussed on supporting those interested in taking up these opportunities. In Rayners Lane, Harrow, Laura Duggan is one such customer. She recently started as a Home Group apprentice. Laura, a long-time resident of Home Group’s Rayner’s Lane estate, was so supportive during the consultation process for the estate’s regeneration in 2002. As a member of the first council resident panel she added so much to the process. Now, we are supporting Laura to be able to use her experience and skills to help people across her local area. Laura said: “I have been an involved customer in some way since 1997, both with the London Borough of Harrow and Home Group. Through the initiatives and their general ethos, Home Group actively look to employ and support their residents. “I have just started as an Apprentice Housing Manager for the East Region and will gain a housing qualification paid for by Home Group, while gaining invaluable on the job training. They’ve gone out of their way to put their customers first.”

Laura Duggan

Apprenticeships

Inclusive workplace

36%

are male

64%

are female

Gender

identified as multicultural

75%

identified as white

Ethnicity

In Hartlepool, Teesside, the Clarence and West View Estates were two parts of the town faced with significant challenges. Too many properties were empty, homes in general were in need of significant repair and anti-social behaviour had taken hold. The outcome being customers no longer had pride in their once thriving communities.But a major regeneration project led by ourselves, in partnership with key local partners, has transformed the estates. Work began by targeting the large number of void properties and aiming to improve the quality of life on the estates. One of the key areas of this was to take many of the unwanted, empty 3-bedroom properties on the estates and convert them into 1- and 2-bedroom flats, which were in much greater demand. Other homes were also modernised. One property was also converted into a new Community Hub, which has allowed both Home Group and other partners – including the police, social services and support agencies – to meet and hold sessions for customers. Customers are able to feedback or raise any concerns through regular drop-in sessions. A focus group has been set up.

Move on Hartlepool

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Pay gap

Gender pay gap

Ethnicity pay gap

UK gap

Home Group gap

We very much welcome the legislative reporting requirement for organisations to publish details of their gender pay gap and support the drive for ethnicity pay gap reporting to become mandatory which is why we are publishing this information alongside our gender pay gap.

Home Group pays colleagues the Real Living Wage (Living Wage Foundation Rate and Living Wage Scotland). Our apprentices are paid in line with the national minimum wage at an enhanced rate above the national minimum wage for apprentices.