Mental Health Awareness Week begins today and presents a great opportunity for organisations to help change the way people think about mental health and to support colleagues facing their own mental health challenges. Read how we’re creating a culture of openness and support to champion men’s mental health.

Highwood has given the new North Stoneham Scout Group’s fundraising target a welcome boost by donating £1400 to its appeal fund – half of what it needs to support this new initiative at the Park for the coming year. The 11^th Eastleigh Group had to find £2800 to meet the cost of community hall hire charges, equipment and outdoor activities and Highwood was delighted to step in and contribute.

Highwood has handed over its long-awaited retirement and assisted living development in the Sussex village of Westergate, to leading housing and care partner, Housing 21.

Highwood has handed over the new North Stoneham Park local centre that will serve as the heart of the Park community to Eastleigh Borough Council when the current Covid restrictions allow. Home to a day nursery, café and a community centre offering a community hall, youth room, health space and meeting rooms, the local centre will be managed and operated by YMCA.

Highwood has marked International Women’s Day (IWD) with a call for more women to enter an industry that, historically, has been a male dominated sector. The theme of this year’s IWD is #ChooseToChallenge, which aims to celebrate achievement and to bring about awareness of bias and change towards a more gender-equal world – Highwood is showing how it’s done.

A report released this week has pointed to a mini-boom in the rental property market that’s being spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic as tenants re-evaluate and reassess their housing requirements.

Highwood has formally handed over our prestigious Snowdrop Place Care Home scheme to leading care partner, Barchester Healthcare – a hugely significant achievement given construction took place during one of the most challenging periods in the industry’s history.

A topping-out ceremony has been held at Highwood’s North Stoneham Park to mark the completion of the highest point of the build of the exciting new retirement living development Highwood is constructing for leading care partner, Housing 21.

Like most businesses, Highwood was disappointed to see the New Year in with a third lockdown but, fortunately, having already implemented our updated processes and safety measures back in May when the first lockdown ended, we were prepared. We’re thankful the government is committed to giving priority to the construction industry and the UK’s property purchasers, enabling us to keep all our construction sites open and buyers moving.

Highwood has answered the call from a local primary school and donated a number of laptop computers to enable its pupils to have access to their online learning platforms during the third national lockdown. Could you do the same for the children at your local school?