Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing This report includes our responses to the 48 criteria under the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing (the SRS). This is a voluntary reporting framework, developed by The Good Economy and launched in late 2020. It has rapidly become the accepted industry-standard for reporting environmental, social and governance work, including affordability, safety standards and zero carbon targets. It helps housing providers to report on ESG performance in a transparent, consistent and comparable way, enabling benchmarking and supporting us in pursuing our social and environmental goals. UN Sustainable Development Goals At the heart of Anchor’s purpose is to support the lives of some of society’s most vulnerable people. We provide critical social infrastructure that builds communities, supports people’s health and wellbeing and reduces poverty. Our work drives economic growth in the wider communities in which we operate, providing jobs as a Living Wage Employer and professional development. We invest in our properties to improve energy efficiency and build new homes to high environmental sustainability standards on the way towards reaching net zero carbon by 2050. Our work links closely with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
SDG 1: No Poverty We are proud to be England’s largest not for profit provider of specialist housing and care for older people. We provide a range of housing and care offers to reflect the different circumstances of those we serve. The majority of the homes we manage are let at social rent levels and we continue to invest in affordable housing. Our Be Wise service helps residents ensure that they claim their full welfare entitlements, and we have also made this service available to colleagues. It has improved the financial position of residents by more than £4.3m in the past year. SDG 2: Zero Hunger We provide affordable, quality housing options across a range of tenures together with support for residents’ health, wellbeing and access to benefits, helping to ensure a supportive and stable place to live and enabling residents to love living in later life. SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing Maintaining and improving the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our residents is integral to helping people to enjoy later life. In addition to our core services, we support a varied and vibrant programme of activities and initiatives for residents to get involved with, ranging from our Be Active and Zest wellness and movement programmes, our Get, Set, Cycle! initiative and our Be Digital and Musical Conversations initiatives.
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