Housing Associations

The majority of its stock is general needs, but it also includes a significant portfolio of sheltered and supported housing, together with key worker accommodation, shared ownership, market rent and private sale properties.

Circle Anglia brings together two well-established housing groups who both have pilot partner funding status with the Housing Corporation. It employs 1,200 staff.

Helping local authorities to identify and tackle local needs and improve people's housing options
Developing homes with money we receive as a result of our pilot funding status with Housing Corporation and generating additional funds in an innovative and sustainable way
Enhancing people's lives by working with residents and communities and develop co-ordinated initiatives with a wide range of local providers, including education and health
Working closely with the Housing Corporation and other agencies, like English Partnerships, to respond to the Government's national and regional agendas
Forming strategic partnerships with contractors to improve working practices and reduce costs
Teaming up with other leading housing associations to share good practice and develop policies on key areas like anti-social behaviour
Forming partnerships with specialist housing associations, including those working with black and minority ethnic groups, to meet a wide range of needs
Providing the care and support services local people need to retain their independence and maintain their tenancies
Managing and redeveloping local authority properties and expanding our portfolio through stock transfers.

Circle 33 Housing Trust

Launched in 1968, the Trust now manages 18,285 homes in London, Herts, Beds and East Anglia. The majority of its stock is general needs, but it also includes a significant portfolio of supported and sheltered housing units.

A number of organisations have been incorporated into the Trust.

Circle 33 Homes was established in 1988 to develop and manage low cost home ownership initiatives. It currently manages some 1,900 leasehold, shared ownership, market rent and contracted properties.
HTC, a former resident co-operative, was formed in 1972 and joined Circle 33 in 1999. It manages some 370 rented properties in Holloway and Islington.
United Women's has been providing affordable accommodation for single women on low incomes since 1925. It joined Circle 33 in 2000 to enable it to carry out a major renovation and modernisation programme on its stock.
Circle 33 Lifespace was set up in 2004 to build and market private properties to cross-subsidise the Trust's affordable housing

Circle 33 Lifespace

An innovative and exciting private developer brand, Circle 33 Lifespace builds developments that celebrate great design, desirability and affordability.

It was established in November 2004 to generate funding for Circle 33's affordable housing programme. Lifespace's first private sale development, Fabrika in Tower Hamlets, won a 2004 RIBA Housing Design Award.

For more information visit the Circle 33 Lifespace website at www.circle33lifespace.com


EPIC Trust was established in 1997 as Circle 33's specialist care provider.
EPIC, which is a registered charity, provides care and support in a range of settings, including residential care, sheltered housing and shared accommodation and people's own homes. Half of its clients are Circle Anglia residents and the rest are residents of other landlords, including local authorities. In 2005 Alone in London, which has been providing help and support for vulnerable young people for over 30 years, joined EPIC.


Old Ford was set up in 1998 as the successor to Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust.
Old Ford recently completed the redevelopment of over 1,000 homes on three estates in Bow - on budget and ahead of schedule. Its successful regeneration of the former local authority homes has included a thriving community development programme, which was nationally recognised when it won the Neighbourhood Improvement category of the 2004 In Business for Neighbourhoods Awards.

This newly formed division brings together five Anglia organisations:

Stort Valley manages around 3,200 properties across Hertfordshire and outer London, including 15 sheltered schemes. It was established in 1995 to manage properties on behalf of East Herts District Council - these have now been transferred to the Association.
Blackwater was established in 1992 and joined Anglia in 1995. It now manages 1,126 properties, including sheltered housing and affordable housing for single people.
Vange was formed in 1998 and own 699 estate homes transferred from Basildon District Council.
Ryeland started life as a stock transfer organisation in 1998. Today the Harlow-based company has 403 properties.

Wherry was formed in 1990 following the transfer of 3,716 Broadland District Council properties.

Wherry currently manages around 5,429 properties across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

As well as providing general needs properties, Wherry is one of the largest providers of special needs housing in Norfolk. It operates 17 sheltered housing schemes for elderly people, together with homes for people with learning difficulties and physical disabilities and a Foyer offering accommodation and training for young people. Based in Ipswich, the Foyer includes an Information and Community Technology Centre which is also used by local residents.

Anglia Commercial Services was established in 1994 to provide a property repairs, maintenance and refurbishment service to organisations throughout the eastern region.
Its trading arm, Anglia Maintenance Services, has business units in Norwich and Harlow and employs qualified skilled operatives who are able to provide a responsive repairs service to over 15,000 properties, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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