More About Riverside

Riverside is one of the UK’s leading social housing, regeneration and care and support organisations. A group of not-for profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core, we exist to provide a range of homes and wider support services for people who can’t fully meet their needs through the housing market.

We also invest in community projects, from intensive housing support to help sustain tenancies, through to money and affordable warmth advice, and employment and training services that help tenants back into work.

Our financial strength is evidenced by the success of its record breaking £250m stock market bond in 2014 and being one of only two UK housing associations to have achieved a Moody’s credit rating of A1.

Riverside goes back 90 years and the group was formed in 2001. This was followed by a period of rapid growth, with seven other housing associations joining us – including English Churches Housing Group (ECHG) in 2006, which now operates as the nationally respected Riverside Care and Support. In 2011, Scottish landlord Irvine Housing Association joined the Group as a subsidiary. A winner of numerous national awards, Riverside’s vision is “Transforming Lives, Revitalising Neighbourhoods”.

The values that guide us in achieving our vision are:

• People focused
• Courageous
• Trusted
• Ambitious

As well as having the highest viability (V1) and governance (G1) ratings from our regulator Homes England (formerly the HCA), Riverside is also proud to have achieved the Investors in People Gold Standard and been named as one of Stonewall’s top three housing association employers in the North West.

Key facts

• Just under 53,000 properties owned and managed and an asset value approaching £2bn.
• Over 100,000 customers.
• The development of 2,500 new homes started on site between 2014-17 for rent, shared ownership and outright sale.
• Active in 161 local authority areas, from Kent in south east England to Irvine on the west coast of Scotland.
• Employing over 2,600 staff, we are a Best Companies Top 100 employer to work for.
• Turnover of £370m in 2016/17.
• Providing specialist housing and support services to over 16,000 people a year, including elderly, homeless and vulnerable people.
• Three commercial subsidiaries generating profits of around £9.5m a year back into our charitable business.

Our people are our greatest asset – and we want them to love their time at Riverside.

We are empowering our colleagues to do great work by investing in learning, development and technology.

 

We are supporting them to excel in a collaborative culture where health and wellbeing matters, and where everyone understands how they and their work fit in.

We are rewarding them with a wide range of benefits, flexible working and employee offers.

And we are listening, using our Employee Forums, Workplace Trust and staff groups to help them thrive, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation or ethnic background.

Together we care about our customers and we care about the neighbourhoods in which we work.

If you would like to hear from some of our colleagues about working at Riverside, please click here.