Most people want to stay in their own homes as they get older and since 1978 Anchor Staying Put have been helping people to do just that. With over 50 regional agencies located across England, we offer a valuable service to older and disabled homeowners.

Our aim is to provide you with guidance and assistance to carry out whatever repairs, improvements or adaptations are necessary to help you to continue living in your own home.

We will help you through the process of having work carried out from beginning to end.

And, as a not-for-profit organisation, our main concern is ensuring you receive the best possible service with the minimum of worry.

The work we can help you with varies between our agencies, to find out how your nearest Anchor Staying Put agency can help you, you will need to contact them directly. You can find their details by using the Agency locator. However, typical jobs that we are often involved with include:

Working Partnerships

As a not-for-profit organisation, Anchor Staying Put receives part of its funding in the form of a central grant from the Department of Communities and Local Government (the Government office that oversees Home Improvement Agencies) and the remaining funds are supplied through partnerships with the local authorities via housing, environmental health and social services departments as well as charitable trusts, voluntary organisations, the police and business partners.

Table A below illustrates how Staying Put's income is made up, whilst Table B illustrates our key expenditure areas..

Tables A & B 06-07

All of our Agencies respond to meet the needs of local older people and through our partnerships we have been able to develop a number of complementary services. Over half of our Agencies now operate a Small Repairs or Handyperson Service and at some we have also developed home safety, home security, energy efficiency and gardening schemes.

Click on the link below to see examples of the complementary service we offer.You will need to contact your nearest agency to find out what services are available locally. Agency Locator.

If your local agency does not offer a particular service, they will try and help you find assistance elsewhere.

Click here to see examples of complementary services.

Through our partnerships we help to:

• Target limited grant resources at those most in need and often least likely to apply for help.
• Release housing, social services and health officers from detailed work supervision and problem solving, giving them more time to tackle other problems in their community.
• Achieve cost savings by preventing moves to residential care.
• Reduce the likelihood of accidents and illness resulting from poor housing conditions - thus reducing the expense of hospital visits.Develop new models of private sector finance to fund repairs and improvements where grants are limited.
• Improve energy efficiency levels, in support of government policy; speed hospital discharge by ensuring patients return to safe, suitable conditions.
• Help regenerate communities by improving housing conditions, fight crime and fear of crime through homesecurity measures.

Our advisory service is free and if you are visited by a Caseworker they will offer confidential advice and support on how to access the various relevant services and organisations in your area.