The Business Exchange Bath & Somerset Issue 9: Autumn 2018 | Page 26

BATH’S TOP 100 BUSINESSES
Building homes and futures
Housing association and house-builder Curo is one of Bath’s biggest employers - with
more than 500 colleagues - and the city’s only organisation to make the prestigious
Sunday Times’ national list of 100 Best Not-for-Profit Organisations to work for.
“We’re always
looking for land,
opportunities and
partnerships that
will enable us to
deliver the homes
our region needs”
With over 25,000 customers, Curo
owns and manages more than
13,000 properties across the South
West and is building hundreds of
new homes every year for rent and
sale. The organisation reinvests
its surpluses from commercial
activities into delivering new
affordable homes.
Gerraint Oakley, managing
director of Curo’s house-building
business, explained: “We have no
paid shareholders; instead of paying
out dividends, we reinvest our
profits to deliver our social mission
- building the affordable homes our
region needs.
“This is the social purpose at
the heart of our organisation and
our commercial house-building
business enables us to deliver
it. For every two homes we sell
privately we’re able to provide at
least one affordable home, creating
much-needed new housing for local
families.”
Curo’s turnover in the 2017/18
financial year was £99m and the
organisation invested £17.1m in
the delivery of 118 new affordable
homes across the South West.
Careers at Curo
Curo’s house-building business
offers a wide range of roles, from
site managers, design and planning
specialists, to trades like bricklaying
and carpentry and professions like
surveying and finance.
Gerraint said: “We’re helping
to create a future for thousands of
customers across the South West
– building new homes, investing in
our region, empowering people and
communities to grow and creating
employment opportunities.
Work with, for
and alongside an
award-winning
organisation
“Building new homes opens up
many career paths for people in
our region. So far we’ve created
six apprenticeships, 41 jobs with
training and 41 work placements
at our Mulberry Park development
alone. We constantly advertise
work opportunities on our website
and social media – it couldn’t be
easier to get in touch if you’re a
construction professional or want to
become one.”
A partner of choice in the
South West
Curo is developing a number of sites
across the South West ranging from
small redevelopments of a dozen
homes to large-scale brownfield
regeneration projects like its award-
winning scheme of 700 homes at
Mulberry Park in South Bath.
Gerraint added: “We work with
We’re looking for new opportunities
to work with land owners and agents,
housing providers, developers, local
authorities and talented people with
a passion for housing
If that’s you, get in
touch with Curo
01225 366015
in company/curo-
www.curo-group.co.uk/house-building
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local and national partners, from
land agents to planning consultants,
architects, contractors and building
products suppliers.
“We’re always looking for land,
opportunities and partnerships that
will enable us to deliver the homes
our region needs, particularly as we
plan to double the number of homes
we deliver over the next 3 to 5 years.”
@Curo_Group