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Anchor Hanover Group

10 October 2022

Anchor Hanover Group ('Anchor') - Publication of Sustainability Report

Anchor, England's largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life, announces the publication of its sustainability report for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Sarah Jones, Chief Executive of Anchor said "At Anchor we're committed to ensuring that older people live as independently as possible in good quality housing and in a safe and caring environment. Our role impacts society and the environment, and we are committed to creating social value, mitigating the environmental risks and impacts of our operations, and operating to high standards of governance and financial control.

"This is the second year we have prepared our Sustainability Report using the Sustainable Reporting Standard for Social Housing, and it shows the breadth of our positive impact and how we continue to ensure Anchor is a well-governed, sustainable organisation, committed to providing homes where people continue to love living in later life."

The sustainability report can be accessed at the following link:  

https://www.anchor.org.uk/investors/our-esg-strategy-and-performance

 Highlights from the report include;

· We provide nearly 54,000 homes to more than 65,000 residents across 1,700 different housing schemes, including over 100 care homes. We're committed to doing more to meet the increasing needs of older people in a sustainable way.  

· We hold data on the energy efficiency of nearly all our homes and are in a strong position - 83% of our rented housing schemes and care homes are rated at EPC C or above. 

· We are committed to building 5,700 new homes for older people. 99.5% of our new homes built over the last five years are rated EPC B or above. In 2021-22 we delivered 49 new homes to more sustainable and energy efficient standards, with an average SAP rating of 86. We also have 801 homes under construction and almost 500 in the pipeline. 

· Affordability is part of sustainability. Just under 99% of our rented homes are let at social rent levels, 85% of which are below Local Housing Allowance. Our BeWise financial support services helped more than 2,400 residents last year who gained an average of £6,500 each. 

· We deliver social value for our residents. An independent evaluation carried out in 2020 assessed our social value benefit to our residents at £6,200 per resident per year on average.

· Our next steps are to develop our Environmental Sustainability Strategy for 2023, setting out a clear and transparent pathway to reducing our climate footprint, including measuring our greenhouse gas emissions and meeting the net-zero carbon target by 2050.

Anchor Hanover Group  

Derya Filiz 

Head of External Communications  

The Heals Building Suites A & B, 3rd Floor  

22-24 Torrington Place 

London 

WC1E 7HJ 

07713085004 

derya.filiz@anchor.org.uk 

communications@anchor.org.uk