HARVEST HOUSING GROUP

Our Vision "Turning homes and neighbourhoods into places where people want to live and choose to stay. Our values show how we will behave and our key business objectives underpin our commitment to improving our services to customers".

Our Values:

Respect and fairness.

Positive attitude and actions.

The potential of individuals to make a contribution.

Delivering first-rate outcomes.

Working with others where together we can achieve more.

Getting the best out of all available resources.

The performance that we achieve for our customers demonstrates that we a high performing, high achieving organisation.

Improving our homes and property services to meet our customers' aspirations by investing effectively and wisely.

Grow profitable products which enhance our ability to impact existing and new neighbourhoods - target 30 000 homes.

Harvest Housing Group came into being in April 1999 following restructuring of the Manchester & District Housing Group.

Harvest Housing Group manages over 18, 000 homes throughout the North West of England and alongside a full range of mainstream housing association activity - general needs, sheltered housing, single people, supported housing, residential care and low-cost home ownership schemes, Harvest works in the housing property and regeneration markets in addition to meeting a large variety of specialist housing and related services needs.

The Group is made up of Industrial and Provident Societies. Most of the members are registered providers (RPs) and all are charitable.

The first step towards what was to become Harvest Housing Group was the founding of the Manchester & District Housing Association (M&D) in 1963. The association grew steadily through its first two decades. Early developments included purpose-built blocks of flats in suburban areas of Manchester, Stockport and Trafford.