Care and repair
We run a home improvement agency called Metropolitan Care and Repair.
The project was setup to help elderly and disabled home owners and tenants to improve and adapt their homes in the London Borough of Haringey. Metropolitan Care and Repair also runs anti-burglary, gardening and hospital schemes to enable people live independently.
Last year, over 800 new customers were helped by the service.
Services with Metropolitan Care and Repair:
- home improvement agency
- Green Routes horticultural project
- Hospital Homelink
- anti-burglary support project.
Home improvement agency
The project helps elderly and disabled homeowners to repair, improve and adapt their homes. We will help people to overcome the practical difficulties in obtaining basic and essential repairs and improvements to their homes.
How do we help?
- We can visit you at home to discuss and help with your problems.
- We will outline the options available to you.
- If building work is required we will help find and organise funding wherever possible.
- The project surveyor will draw up specifications, arrange for estimates from builders and monitor the work from start to finish.
- You will always be informed of the exact costs before you commit yourself to any building work.
Green Routes
Green Routes helps people back into employment by offering:
- horticultural training and employment to local people who are unemployed, including those with mental health issues
- tailored training courses to community groups and individuals on specific horticultural topics.
What do we do at Green Routes?
- Short Courses in basic horticulture.
- Training in NVQ Level 2 Amenity Horticulture.
- Employability and job brokerage to prepare for employment.
- 1:1 support to develop independent living skills through support plans and risk assessments.
- Induction package including health and safety after assessment.
- Specific tailored horticulture courses for external organisations.
- Tuition to develop individuals volunteering skills.
- Allotment space for local community groups.
Training groups and programmes cover areas of basic and more advanced horticulture such as:
- plant propagation
- plant care
- greenhouse culture
- turf culture
- garden design
- building and maintaining water features.
Specialist training programmes can include:
- Container gardening
- Hard and soft landscaping
- Growing soft fruit and top fruit
- Creating a tropical garden in a temperate climate
- Propagation for nursery sales
- Rare and unusual plant propagation
For more information about this scheme please contact the Support Manager on 020 8829 8316 or the Horticulture Project Manager on 020 8880 2057.
Hospital Homelink
Hospital Homelink provides support, advice and information as well as practical assistance to people over 60 who have been discharged from hospital. It also provides support to prevent people going into hospital.
We provide free support with:
- moving light weight furniture
- benefits and concessionary travel
- applying for grants for heating and hot water
- accident prevention (checking on home hazards) including clearing obstacles which pose risks
- obtaining a care package.
The project funded and supported by:
- Haringey Primary Care Trust
- Haringey Council
- Metropolitan Housing Partnership.
For more information or an appointment please contact the Hospital Homelink Project Case Worker on 020 8829 8310.
Anti-Burglary Support Project
We offer assistance with the following:
- free fitting of window and door locks.
- free fitting of spy holes, door chains/bars.
- free fitting of smoke alarms
- filling in your insurance form and getting estimates from reliable contractors following a burglary.
- help with re-glazing or replacing a damaged window or door.
- advice on how to minimise the risk of a bogus caller entering your home
- help to access other relevant organisations.
The Anti-Burglary Support Project is funded and supported by:
- Metropolitan Police
- Victim Support
- Haringey Council
- Metropolitan Housing Partnership
- Haringey Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.
If you would like more information or an appointment please phone: The Anti-Burglary Project Worker on 020 8829 8310