Orbit Homes Find a home Ways to buy Helping you buy Customer Care About Orbit Contact us About us Orbit Homes is committed to building quality, affordable homes and building thriving communities. Your Place to Thrive The history of Orbit | The Orbit difference | Orbit Earth | Working with Orbit | Design Standards The history of Orbit Orbit was established in 1967 by a small but pioneering group of business people who wanted to make sure everyone could live in a good quality, affordable home. The passion they felt was channelled into positive action, and Orbit was created. Our purpose today is every bit as important as it was when we were founded. We provide landlord services to over 45,000 properties and build around 1,500 quality new homes each year. Our aim is to ensure the homes we provide and the communities we create are high quality, affordable, safe and sustainable and really become your place to thrive. In everything we do, we are committed to improving the long-term prospects of society. We do this through taking steps to protect our planet, investing in a range of projects to support communities, families and individuals, and ensuring we have in place sustainable working and excellent employment practices. To find out more about Orbit and our work, please visit the Orbit group website. Find out more The Orbit difference When you buy from Orbit Homes, you’re directly influencing the lives of thousands of individuals in the UK. Our impact far reaches beyond the homes we build and sell, as we aim to make a positive impact in the communities where we live and work too. We put back into our communities and society in a big way. Not just through our work supporting our tenants, as a responsible landlord, but also by building a better planet for future generations. We are big on positive, greener actions, and have a dedicated programme called Orbit Earth to push our initiative further. So by buying from Orbit Homes, not only will you find your place to thrive, you will also help others do so too. Orbit in the community Investing in the community Contributing to the community Orbit Earth Orbit Earth was established to recognise the importance of protecting the environment and act in the protection of our planet. Our design standards set out the controls to ensure that the stunning new homes we build make a positive impact on the environment. We have four main priorities: Climate action to become net zero carbon Ecological resilience to enhance the quality of green spaces Responsible partnerships and a sustainable supply chain Increasing biodiversity Working with Orbit Whilst the realisation of our vision to build thriving communities is our primary focus, we firmly believe that we also have a duty to act responsibly as a business, and to ensure our contractors and suppliers operate responsibly too. Even during the recent coronavirus pandemic, our excellent relationships with local partners, meant that we have been able to support the response effort directly. We invested almost £50k to support foodbank efforts to supply vulnerable and low-income households, alongside providing grants for local charities to improve their ICT infrastructure so that they could continue to operate. A great place to work We were delighted to be recognised as a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Company (not-for-profit) having placed within the top fifty in 2020. We are a values-led business with an inclusive culture that promotes diversity and provides employees with the opportunities to develop and grow their careers. We offer apprenticeship and graduate schemes as well as several levels of internal training programmes, secondment opportunities and agile working. To find out more about working for Orbit Homes, please visit our careers website. Find out more Keeping customers and employees safe Keeping our customers and employees safe is an area where we are never complacent. Having a strong culture of health, safety and compliance across the whole business ensures that all employees understand the importance of taking ownership and responsibility in these areas. We work with various safety experts and organisations to ensure best practice across all areas of the business. We are proud to have reached gold standard with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). When tendering for partners and suppliers, our procurement team includes a social value requirement, to ensure that we work with like-minded businesses who share our vision and values. Our procurement team actively identifies opportunities to further our social impact. through working in partnership with our supply chain. Design Standards At Orbit our vision is to lead in building thriving communities and we recognise that in order to build a thriving community great care and attention needs to be taken to the way in which they are designed. We know that communities are about people first and foremost but the design of the places we live can also have a huge impact on our lives. From the design of each individual home to the spaces in between that make up the public realm, great design can have a positive impact through its ability to ‘surprise and delight’. At Orbit we believe that good design it at the heart of delivering thriving communities and is fundamental to our mission. It is also essential, so that we can create your place to thrive. We have therefore created a 12 point Design Strategy that ensures good design remains at the forefront of what we do. Stay in the know Receive updates about new developments, homes, offers and events. 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