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| General Information / Background |
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Granta Housing Society was founded in Cambridge in 1968 as a voluntary, independent organisation established to help people in housing need. The Society has charitable status.
Granta registered as a housing association with the Housing Corporation in September 1974, appointed its first employee in 1976 and had provided around 200 homes by the end of that decade.
The Society continued to grow throughout the 1980's developing housing schemes in new locations with the needs of additional client groups being met through provision of low cost home-ownership initiatives and community care programmes. Reflecting this growth and change the Society has attracted funding and support from a variety of public sources in addition to the Housing Corporation including a number of Local Authorities, County Council Social Services Departments and Health Authorities and Trusts. More recently Joint Purchasing Consortiums/Partnerships and Primary Care Groups/Trusts have assumed revenue-funding responsibilities for some of our supported housing or care schemes. Since 1989 the Society has also raised private finance from Banks and Building Societies to support its development activities. |
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