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We are very conscious that                        to do, we are confident that we are moving forward in
                                                              delivering for customers and colleagues alike. We were
            the rising cost of living                         also delighted to gain a silver tenant engagement

            continues to impact many of                       accreditation for our work with our customers.
            our customers and some are                        We are very conscious that the rising cost of living
                                                              continues to impact many of our customers and some
            struggling with the day-to-                       are struggling with the day-to-day cost of running
                                                              a home and raising a family. During the year our
            day cost of running a home                        financial inclusion team helped 1,100 customers by
                                                              generating £3.1m in additional income for them.
            and raising a family.                             We also focused on ensuring our colleagues have the

                                                              right skills and tools to deliver services to our customers.
                                                              In this regard, we commenced the procurement of
       to them for their patience and support and to Clanmil   a new integrated housing and asset management
       colleagues for their efforts to bring about the stability   system to drive efficiency and performance
       and improvements needed. Looking ahead, we intend      improvements throughout Clanmil. We also made
       to deliver more of our repairs service through our in-  good progress on delivering our digital strategy,
       house team in the future.                              including the replacement of Citrix, internet upgrades
                                                              and cyber training for all colleagues. A new internal
       We also continued to get to know our customers         communications channel, the Clanmil Chat app, was
       better. One of the ways in which we do this is through   launched in June 2025 connecting colleagues right
       a programme of home visits. During the year we         across the business to support a one team, customer
       visited almost 1,000 customers to hear directly from   centric approach.
       them how our services meet their needs and how we
       can support them to live well, as well as identifying   We remain very grateful to our highly motivated and
       and actioning any repairs that we had previously       engaged colleagues who work tirelessly to deliver
       been unaware of. We also completed phase 2 of our      homes and services to our customers, and we are
       customer resolution centre action plan and are now in   committed to understanding what is working well for
       the final stages of deploying new technology that will   them and what is still needed to make Clanmil an even
       provide a 360-degree view of our customers so that we   better place to work.
       can better tailor services to their needs.

       Through the work of our customer council, we carried
       out two service improvement panels in the year, one
       on communications at our schemes and a second on
       our online customer portal. Actions from these reviews
       are currently in progress and we are very grateful to our   £12.4m         33,325              1,100
       customers who gave up their time to work with us and       spent on       repairs requests     customers
       help us deliver these welcome improvements. This work    repairs and        processed          helped by
       helped drive customer satisfaction levels up by 6% in   improvements                           financial
       the year, and while we recognise that there is still more                                    inclusion team

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