Working at FirstPort… As a Residential Development Manager
Having previously worked as a sole trader and salesman, Steve Leith made a career switch in October last year when he started a new job as a Residential Development Manager…
Running for GOSH: How a personal connection inspired colleague’s fundraising campaign
FirstPort’s charity partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has inspired colleagues from all over the country to raise vital funds for this much-loved cause, including Development Manager, Yvonne Hendy,…
Retirement community hosts art exhibition to celebrate creative residents
Residents at a retirement development in Morpeth, Northumberland, have unearthed a wealth of artistic talent amongst them, through a series of arts and crafts sessions. As the sessions grew in…
Residents awarded grant to support community gardening club
Funding provided by Live Longer Better – a programme to promote health and wellbeing – will help a group of Paignton retirees expand their popular community gardening club, which was…
WATCH – FirstPort joins this year’s Great British Beach Clean at Dorset Beach
FirstPort colleagues and residents were invited to Highcliffe Beach in Dorset yesterday (21st September) to support of the Marine Conservation Society’s Great British Beach Clean. (more…)
WATCH – A day in the life of a visiting Retirement Development Manager
Meet visiting Retirement Development Manager Sandra Pool. Find out from Sandra all about a typical day as a retirement Development Manager at FirstPort. (more…)
Retirement development hosts residents’ marriage celebrations
It’s been a busy time for two retirees at FirstPort’s Poplar Court in Lytham St Annes’s. First moving into the development, then arranging a civil ceremony to show their commitment…
FirstPort retirement development awarded 2nd place in local gardening competition
A FirstPort retirement development has secured second place in this year’s Runnymede in Bloom gardening competition. Onslow Mews – an independent-living retirement development in Surrey – was awarded second place…
Residents at the centre of community tree planting initiative at north London development
Residents at FirstPort’s Stonegrove development in Edgeware, London, are invited to get involved in the planting of a community orchard, which will be located in the heart of the development…
WATCH – Residential development in London begins urban beekeeping
A south London residential development with an eco-friendly focus has welcomed two hives of honeybees, in a bid to help both the bee population and the local environment. Greenland Place…