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Members Lunch – 12.30pm, Thursday 1 December 2022
If you’re a Canopy Housing tenant or volunteer, why not join our Chief Executive, David Nugent for an open, informal Q&A at Starbucks West One, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1BA
- – Free coffee and snacks
- – Come and meet other Canopy tenants, volunteers and staff
- – Ask anything you like about Canopy Housing
- – Find out about Canopy’s plans and how to get more involved
- – Bring a friend, if you like!
Hope to see you there!
Service update
Like many organisations, Canopy have reviewed the way we work following the pandemic. We are far more likely to visit people in their homes instead of asking them to visit us. This is particularly important now that we only have one office (the other two having been converted into family homes).
Many of our tenants, volunteers and self-helpers prefer to contact us by phone, e-mail, social media and text now (as well as seeing us face-to-face). Unlike a few years ago, all of our staff are equipped with laptops and mobile phones that allow them to work with people in that way.
As a result, the following measures are now in place:
- – Staff are available by phone/email Monday to Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm
- – Our office at 66 Burley Lodge Road is open Monday to Thursday 10am to 3pm
- – Our Harehills office is now closed
- – Our site volunteering programme is operational, although there are fewer people on each site.
- – We are aiming to launch additional sites later in the year to allow more people to volunteer with us.
- – If you have contact details for the member of staff you usually deal with, please contact them directly. If you do not know their details, please use the following:
info@canopyhousing.org | |
| Repairs | 07808 039015 |
| Out-of-hours emergencies | 01757 244445 |
| Arrears | 07545 922621 |
| Finance | 07960 040840 |
| Tenant support | 07956 152596 |
| Volunteering | 07956 152595 |
Equality Scheme and Action Plan
Canopy’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group have recently reviewed our Equality Scheme and Action Plan. The review recognised a number of successes such as recruiting more diverse Board Members and a Mental Health First Aider, preparing a gender pay gap report, producing anti-harassment and dignity at work policies, delivering hate crime training, drawing volunteers from diverse backgrounds (including a high proportion of women), staff members learning British Sign Language, making our offices more accessible and producing Esiread communications.
However, there is still plenty for us to do, such as improving the data we hold about the people we work with, improving our domestic violence policy and procedures, offering paid traineeships, expanding our office opening times, recruiting more diverse Board Members and delivering more training to our staff and Board around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Our 2022 Equality Scheme and Action Plan can be downloaded here: