Our House

EastendHomes

Our House is a podcast by social landlord, EastendHomes. Residents, staff and partners come together with host Helen New to talk about all things community, the power of social housing and what it means to live and work in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Tune in every Friday for a new episode!

  1. 07/29/2022

    S2: Holland Estate Play Area

    Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes. In our final episode of this series,  Helen chats to some of the lovely people from the Holland Estate in Spitalfields. We start the episode by hearing from Tim Elliott, a project manager at the Holland Estate. He discusses how residents, like himself, transformed a play space for the young people in their area in partnership with EastendHomes. We then hear from Iyana and Mejubin, two young people living on the Holland Estate who use the play area every day. They tell us what they like about the space and why it is a place where they feel safe to have fun with their friends. Thanks so much to you all for tuning into the second series of Our House. We've loved sharing so many special conversations with you and learning more about the amazing people that make up London's East End. If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!  Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast

    28 min
  2. 05/13/2022

    S2: Judith Riley (EastendHomes Housing Officer)

    Welcome back to another episode of Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes. This week in the UK marks mental health awareness week and this year's theme is loneliness. We thought it was apt to return to a lovely episode from our first series where an amazing member of the EastendHomes team is helping to combat loneliness in her local community.  Helen chats to housing officer, Judith Riley. Judith is a woman of many talents - balancing her role at  EastendHomes with two (yes two!) other projects. She talks about Here's a Hug, a project she set up in 2020 to knit scarves and hats for homeless people around East London. She also tells us all about her love for baking, which she shares with others through her patisserie company - Love Me Take Me Home.  If you'd like to volunteer or donate to Here's a Hug, you can email them at heresahug2020@gmail.com or connect with them on their Facebook page.  If you'd like to purchase some of Judith's amazing baked goods, contact her via Instagram @lmtmh.info This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on! Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast

    29 min
  3. 05/06/2022

    S2: The Felix Project & Food for Aldgate

    Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes. In today's episode, Helen is joined by Rachel Ledwith from The Felix Project, Paul Wilson from EastendHomes and Helen, Ruby and Forhana from Food for Aldgate. They discuss their mission to reduce food waste in East London and beyond. We start by with learning more about The Felix Project from Rachel, the head of community engagement. Rachel shares how The Felix Project came to be and what motivated her to start working within food redistribution.  We also hear from Paul Wilson, the Community Engagement Manager at EastendHomes. He talks about why he helped set up Food for Aldgate and the impact that partnerships with other likeminded community organisations have had. Helen also chats to the volunteers from Food for Aldgate - Helen, Forhana and Ruby.  They discuss why they got involved in the project and how they think it's helped their local community. If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! And if you would like to get involved in volunteering for The Felix Project, they're always looking for new volunteers - you can sign up here! This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!  Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast

    34 min

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Our House is a podcast by social landlord, EastendHomes. Residents, staff and partners come together with host Helen New to talk about all things community, the power of social housing and what it means to live and work in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Tune in every Friday for a new episode!