A record crowd of nearly 400 residents, visitors and staff from retirement housing complexes across the UK came together in Manchester on 21st May for the EAC National Housing for Older People Awards 2019. Visit our Housing Awards website at eacawards.org.uk to: See the 299 regional and 27 national winning schemes View hundreds of photos of the Awards event […]

Bookings for next month’s National Housing for Older People Awards in Manchester reached 250 today, suggesting that the event may turn out to be the largest to date. Very pleasingly, a little over half of attendees represent regional Award winning schemes, showing that this year’s decision to introduce a regional dimension to the Housing Awards has proved […]

A record 19,000 votes have been cast by residents, families, visitors and staff for retirement housing schemes across the UK. 1,220 retirement developments are involved, along with the landlords and management companies that run them. EAC’s National Housing for Older People Awards were launched in 2010 to encourage those who live, visit and work in […]

The Association of Retirement Housing Managers made awards to 3 of its members during a special slot at this year’s National Housing for Older People Awards in Edgbaston. In his welcome address to the National Awards 2017, John Galvin, Chief Executive of EAC, had reflected: “There is an important good news story woven into this […]

View all this years Awards Winning and Highly Commended schemes, see photos of the event and watch our video of the day – all on this site. Click here to enjoy! Whether you were lucky enough to be there, all the joy of the National Housing for Older People Awards 2017 is now captured in […]

Nominations for this year’s Awards were made by 4,069 residents living in 360 later life housing developments across the UK. All were consulted using EAC’s entertaing card game, designed to stimulate discussion and capture satisfaction ratings on scheme design, services and well-being, with the highest ranked schemes going forward as finalists for the Awards. View […]

Legal & General has offered to fund exploratory work to extend the scope of EAC’s National Housing for Older People Awards and the consultation with residents that underpins them. The aim is to capture the views also of residents’ families and scheme staff in order to gain a broader understanding of what makes for successful […]

The best retirement and extra care housing – decided by the votes of older people themselves – won national recognition at an awards ceremony in Doncaster on 25th November. Nearly 300 residents and staff of the winning schemes were welcomed by the Civic Mayor of Doncaster, Councillor Pat Haith. Before lunch entertainment was provided by […]