1st October 2024

My name is Dayne Donegan, and I’ve spent the last fifteen years working with young people in various settings, from mainstream and residential schools to alternative provisions. My passion is helping young minds find their path, overcome challenges, and live the best life they can. When I read about Longleigh in a Stonewater newsletter, I […]

17th September 2024

We are incredibly honoured to announce that Longleigh has won the ‘Commercial Collaboration of the Year’ award at the Association of Charitable Organisations (ACO) 2024 Annual Awards. Achieving this award recognises our partnership with Altair on pioneering research into the impact of inadequate floor coverings in social housing. The research, developed in collaboration with Altair […]

29th August 2024

At Longleigh, customer satisfaction and excellent service delivery is at the core of everything we do and how we do it. In June this year, we conducted a customer satisfaction survey as part of our Individual Grants Review, reaching out to 646 Stonewater customers who had received a Longleigh Grant. With 73 responses (an 11.3% […]

22nd August 2024

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Longleigh Foundation has been shortlisted for the ‘Commercial Collaboration of the Year’ at the ACO 2024 Annual Awards. This nomination reflects the collaborative work we’ve accomplished with Altair, a consultancy specialising in the social housing sector, for our extensive research into floor covering provisions at point of let […]

10th July 2024

Sarah*, a mother of two, found herself facing mounting debt amidst the ongoing cost of living crisis. Supporting both sons alone, including her 8-year-old son, who has ADHD and SEMH and requires extra care and attention, Sarah struggled to manage. Coupled with the lack of a functional fridge freezer, cooker, and a car seat for […]

4th July 2024

It was a busy week for the UK housing sector at the Housing 2024 event in Manchester last week. Our CEO, Aileen Edmunds, took to the fringe stage, delivering a powerful message that urged Housing Associations to stay true to their primary purpose—providing homes that serve as a foundation for a flourishing life. Aileen emphasised, “If […]

4th July 2024

Along with The G15, Longleigh has co-commissioned a feasibility study on establishing whether there should be a National Voice for Tenants. We have chosen The Health Creation Alliance (THCA) to complete this research, which will consult tenants to: – Identify ways they can have greater influence on national policymaking – Explore how this initiative could […]

19th June 2024

Meet Sharon*, a 52-year-old woman referred to Longleigh by our Circles of Support partner, Cleanslate. Sharon was experiencing significant challenges due to anxiety and depression, which were worsened by financial strain. With two daughters depending on her, including one who was pregnant, Sharon found herself struggling to afford some of life’s basic necessities like food […]

18th June 2024

Nine months into her role as Longleigh’s new CEO, as we conclude our 2023/24 Financial year, we sit down with Aileen Edmunds to see how she’s found her first few months. Tell us about your work before you joined Longleigh Foundation? “I always knew I wanted to use my time and skills to try and […]

29th May 2024

We published our Final Report on the provision of floor coverings in social housing earlier this month, have you read it yet? Our research revealed that an estimated 760,000 adults in social housing live without proper floor coverings, affecting as many as 15% of households. This lack of floor coverings significantly impacts tenants’ ability to […]

8th May 2024

Would you be comfortable living in a home with bare floorboards? Today, we publish our Final Report on the provision of floor coverings at the point of let in social housing. At Longleigh, we are more than just a provider of traditional grants, we’re advocates for change. In response to our experience as a grant-maker, […]

16th October 2023

Longleigh Foundation has recently published the second of our Learning Reports about the provision of floor coverings in social housing.   This second report highlights the very real experiences of tenants. The research is being carried out by Altair on our behalf and is part of a three-year project commissioned and funded by Longleigh. If […]

3rd October 2023

Manjeev Muker, Longleigh’s Individual Grants Manager, was invited to speak at the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACO) annual conference, which took place on 27th September. Manjeev, along with Anne-Marie Bancroft, Principal Consultant at Altair, introduced Altair’s research findings around the lack of flooring provision in social housing, which Longleigh has commissioned and funded. As part […]

18th September 2023

We are delighted to introduce Aileen Edmunds as our new Chief Executive. Aileen joins Longleigh from Trafford Housing Trust (now acquired by L&Q) where she set up a multi-million pound Foundation. She has more than 15 years’ experience in the charity sector specialising in service design, fundraising and leadership in causes from homelessness to international […]

11th April 2023

We are pleased to present our Annual Review 2022. This was a year in which the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was ever present and made even more challenging for many households due to the cost-of-living crisis that quickly followed and remains with us to this day.

15th December 2022

We are delighted that Clean Slate, one of our Circle of Support partners, has won the Positive Impact in Finance Award at the inaugural New Statesman Positive Impact Awards, which were held in London on 6th December.

13th December 2022

Longleigh Foundation, the independent charitable foundation for the social housing sector, founded by Stonewater, has announced two new appointments to its Board of Trustees.

26th July 2022

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), in partnership with ITN Business, have produced a news-style programme, called Reinventing Homes and, here at Longleigh, we’re delighted to be one of the organisations featured in this programme.

1st June 2022

Our CEO, Andy Peers, attended the opening of Noden's Mews in Leominster by HRH the Duke of Kent. Longleigh Foundation was a funding partner in this scheme that supported veterans to build homes, which they then moved into...

23rd December 2021

As 2021 comes to an end, we are pleased to share an end of year message from our CEO, Andy Peers. He reflects on the past year, what we’ve achieved and what we’re looking forward to in 2022.

20th December 2021

Find out about Longleigh’s grants and finances, along with our successes and challenges, from the March 2020 to June 2021 in this extended Annual Report.

21st June 2021

We’re absolutely delighted to hear the news that George Blunden has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work in the housing sector and in setting up Longleigh in 2015.

18th May 2021

Learn about our latest research grant for INVITE, the University of Stirling's project in promoting inclusive living technology.

6th January 2021

We are pleased to present our Annual Review for 2020, a year in which life unexpectedly changed for millions of people. But, a year in which we witnessed the silver-lining of incredible generosity, kindness, resilience and innovation across communities.

14th December 2020

Our next Longleigh Lockdown story from Leeds Music Trust shares the power of music in improving wellbeing in their 'Bringing It All Back Home' project.

6th November 2020

Our series of Longleigh Lockdown Stories continues as we head into a second, national lockdown. We hear from Simon, Chief Executive at JustLife, a homelessness charity.

22nd October 2020

We’re back with another Longleigh Lockdown Story and this time it’s over to Liz, Founder & Managing Director at Imagineer.

17th September 2020

The next in our series of Longleigh Lockdown Stories comes from Claire Hopkins, the founder and director at Impact North.

26th August 2020

Lippy People is a video storytelling charity based in Leeds that contributes to positive social impacts through coaching people. They learnt much during lockdown and they wanted to share these learnings with you.

10th August 2020

In this Longleigh Lockdown Story, it’s the turn of the Alcohol Education Trust (AET) to tell us more.

29th July 2020

During lockdown we’ve been holding regular ‘cuppa & chat’ video meetings with community-based projects that we’ve funded. The meetings aim to give project leaders a safe space to talk and connect – we wanted to share their stories.

14th July 2020

Longleigh has been fortunate to receive some excellent advice and guidance from James and Guy at Yoke & Co. as we navigated the world of charity finance and investment. We wanted to share

15th April 2020

A note from our Chief Executive, Andy Peers. It was back to work for the Longleigh team after a bank holiday weekend that’s been unlike any I’ve experienced in my lifetime, and perhaps like nothing I’ll – or we’ll – experience again.

1st April 2020

A new fund has been launched in response to the growing numbers of people affected by hate crime across the Black Country.

1st April 2020

Over the last two-years we have seen that any projections we made about the expected demand for the Individual Grants we provide to residents within the properties and schemes of our originating donor have been exceeded.

1st April 2020

There are some scary statistics out there about the level of funding applications that are unsuccessful.