{"id":108541,"date":"2022-03-30T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=108541"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:03:09","slug":"orbit-homes-ukrainian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/orbit-homes-ukrainian-refugees\/108541\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit allocates 26 homes to Ukrainian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbithomes.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orbit<\/a> has allocated 26 of its properties, which come from its Independent Living, Supported Living and Extra Care housing stock, to Ukrainian refugees<\/h2>\n<p>All Ukrainian r<span lang=\"en-US\">efugees moving into these homes will receive additional support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/mental-wellbeing-on-construction-sites\/102751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health<\/a> and accessing interpreter services, through Orbit\u2019s Better Days programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as offering homes to Ukrainian r<span lang=\"en-US\">efugees, Orbit is working with partners to secure furniture, white goods, and set up bank accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Government&#8217;s Homes for Ukraine scheme<\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Orbit colleagues who takes part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/homes-for-ukraine-scheme-frequently-asked-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Government\u2019s Homes for Ukraine scheme<\/a> will be granted an additional week of annual leave to help the refugees to settle into their home. They and the refugees will receive retail vouchers to purchase essential home items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Orbit will also match fund colleagues\u2019 donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, up to a total of \u00a310,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Paul Richards, group director of Customer and Communities, said: &#8220;Orbit was created to address a key problem around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/prevent-homelessness\/105466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homelessness<\/a>, to provide homes to those with the greatest need. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8220;The war in Ukraine has already seen millions of people displaced, afraid, moved a long way from their home and in urgent need of a temporary home and a welcoming society. We want to do what we can to help provide that.&#8221;<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">John Wrighthouse, Orbit Group people director, added: &#8220;It is great that as a business we are able to offer this assistance but we know that many of our colleagues want to help personally too, and we want to support them in doing this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">By providing additional time off and financial assistance for those looking to share their homes, to match funding colleagues\u2019 donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, it\u2019s my sincere hope that we\u2019ll be able to make a difference to as many families as possible through what is, undoubtedly, the most difficult time in their life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbit has allocated 26 of its properties, which come from its Independent Living, Supported Living and Extra Care housing stock, to Ukrainian refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[276,829,656],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-government","8":"tag-homelessness","9":"tag-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orbit allocates 26 homes to Ukrainian refugees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Orbit has allocated 26 of its properties, which come from its Independent Living, Supported Living and Extra Care housing stock, to Ukrainian refugees\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/orbit-homes-ukrainian-refugees\/108541\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orbit allocates 26 homes to Ukrainian refugees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Orbit has allocated 26 of its properties, which come from its Independent Living, Supported Living and Extra Care housing stock, to Ukrainian refugees\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/orbit-homes-ukrainian-refugees\/108541\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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