Thank you to Hetton Lyons Primary School who e very kindly included residents at our Aged Miners Homes in Hetton le Hole when they donated food from their harvest festival today.

We are recruiting for a Customer Support Advisor, full-time, 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday. The salary is £26,872 per annum with numerous benefits and agile working and flexi-time is also available. The closing date is Friday 23rd October ow.ly/ocV650ZY5Fy #jobs

One of our residents who has lovingly grown the same grapevine for 35 years has proved that, with patience and care, something special can flourish almost anywhere. You can hear about it on the grapevine by reading the story in full on our website. ow.ly/CjIv50ZVQqn

This year’s gardening/pot plant competition was the most competitive in our history, with an amazing ten gardens (a record) making the final judging shortlist - and the two winners were first-time entrants. ow.ly/L5hf50ZVQn8

We're pleased to have published the latest edition of The Banner, our residents' magazine. As usual, it's packed full of great stories about the people in our homes including a new four-page pullout dedicated to our resident involvement activities. ow.ly/kSQ750ZVKbM

Our phone lines are temporarily down - please bear with us while we resolve this.

DAMHA welcomes the latest regulatory judgement from the Regulator of Social Housing (published today) and is pleased to have been found compliant with the required standards. damha.org.uk/regulatory-judg…

Meet Colin Mallen and Donna Breeze, our Independent Living Officers at Bulmer House in South Shields and Rutherford House in Easington. respectively. ow.ly/6tWC50ZggLf

It’s always wonderful when our residents share their family history with us and in John Knox’s case, his home is alive with such history, as you will discover in our latest resident story. damha.org.uk/family-history/

Lynsey Saunders is now six months into her new role as our first-ever Resident Involvement Officer and in a Q&A article, she explains more about the role. damha.org.uk/q-a-with-lynsey…

In our latest resident story, we find out more about the very interesting life of Alan Bartle, from Trimdon. His story is long enough to fill a book, but, in his own words, he picks out some particular highlights. ow.ly/Xvwy50ZggAz

We're inviting our residents to enter our 2026 garden/pot plant competition. There will be prizes in each category and the deadline to submit an entry for yourself or a neighbour is 17th July. Can you beat last year's winners? damha.org.uk/gardening-pot-p…

Our phone system is working again and we would like to thank everyone for their patience whilst this was resolved.

Our telephone system is currently down. We are working hard to rectify this but in the meantime, we ask if you are calling to report an emergency, please call 01207 423333 and select Option 1. For normal enquiries please call later in the day or email us.

We're delighted to introduce our new website. We may be 128 years old but it's a thoroughly modern website for 2026 and beyond and it's been designed with our current residents in mind, enabling them to do more than ever before through the site. durhamhomes.org.uk/

The latest edition of our resident magazine, The Banner, has been published and as always, it is packed full of interesting articles about our work and the people who live in our homes. ow.ly/83vq50YvHeq

We have a vacancy for a Housing Administrator based at our head office in Chester-le-Street but with agile working also included. There's also one week left to apply for the position of Independent Living Officer in Easington. ow.ly/hZmi50Yr7f6 #jobs #housing #durham

We're recruiting for an Independent Living Officer based at our Rutherford House scheme in Easington. 35 hours per week, (Monday – Friday), salary £23,163 – £27,251 (+ essential car user allowance and mileage), plus other benefits. ow.ly/6Kz050YgGgu #CareCommunity #

We are delighted to be part of a consortium which will see some of our homes benefit from £8.3m investment to significantly improve energy efficiency in people’s homes, tackle fuel poverty and help reduce carbon emissions. ow.ly/iKFF50XZIhQ #socialhousing #investment

We're delighted to announce that we have retained our DAMHA is pleased to announce that it has retained the highest possible regulatory rating following an assessment conducted in December. durhamhomes.org.uk/regulator…