Customer relations, complaints and feedback

At Anchor we know that resident feedback is essential to helping us improve the services we provide.

We value all types of feedback and have a responsive resident feedback process to ensure we can respond to all compliments, complaints and suggestions quickly and effectively.

Anchor’s complaints policy and procedure

We’d like to think that we get things right most of the time, but we know that occasionally things may go wrong. We operate a 2 stage complaints process for these cases. As an organisation that is committed to listening to our residents and improving our service, we really do want to hear from you if you’ve had a problem.

We will always do our best to make sure you can contact us easily. Part of this will involve putting in place additional measures, where it’s considered necessary and reasonable to do so, which would assist our communication with you. This might include for example providing correspondence in large print, Braille or Audio or by facilitating access to a language line translation support service. Just let us know if there is any difficulty and we will do our best to help. 

If you have a local manager that works at your location often the quickest way to put things right is for you to speak to them.  However, we do appreciate though that sometimes this isn’t possible, or you’ll want to contact us directly, so we’ve made this easy for you to do.

For detailed information about our complaints policy and procedure, including when you will receive responses, our use of mediation and details of outside agencies you can contact, download our Complaints, Compliments & Suggestions helpsheet.

Download our Complaints Policy (updated Oct 2023)

Download our Customer Helpsheet (updated Oct 2023)

Alternative formats

The documents above can be made available in large print, Braille, audio or electronic formats and other languages on request.

Please contact our Customer Centre on 0800 731 2020 or alternatively, speak to your local manager for further details.

Compliments

We are always delighted to hear from residents who recognise our colleagues for delivering an excellent service.

Compliments let us know where and how we are succeeding in providing good service and provide examples of good practice that we are committed to sharing with our residents and throughout the organisation.
 
At Anchor we like to give praise where it is due, so if you would like to thank a member of staff, or a volunteer for the service they have provided you or a loved one, please contact the Customer Relations team using the details below and we will be sure to pass on your appreciation.

Contact the Customer Relations team

You can contact the Customer Relations team with a complaint or compliment by completing one of our ‘We welcome your feedback’ forms available at our locations or by using one of the following contact options:

Email the team

Email: [email protected]

Write to the team

Customer Relations
2 Godwin Street
Bradford
BD1 2ST

Call the team

0800 731 2020 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm)

Online

You can complete the ‘Contact us’ webform here.

We are keen to hear from you

Anchor’s Director of Customer Experience, Dan Rhodes is always keen to hear from our residents;

"We pride ourselves on delivering a high standard of service, though realise that things can go wrong from time to time, and when that happens, our aim is to resolve your complaint as quickly as possible.

"We're just as keen as you are to get to the bottom of whatever the complaint might be, so please talk to us as soon as possible and we'll do the best we can to help find a solution. You might even be helping other customers in future by bringing it to our attention.  We also really like to hear feedback on what we do well or Anchor colleagues who make a difference to you so we can share your feedback with them, so please do let us know."

We look forward to hearing about your experiences, and more importantly learning from your feedback.

The Housing Ombudsman Complaint Handling Code and the Self-Assessment

In July 2020 the Housing Ombudsman launched its Complaint Handling Code. Compliance with this Code forms part of the membership obligations set out in the Housing Ombudsman Scheme and Landlords such as Anchor are expected to comply with the requirements of this Code.

We demonstrate our compliance by completing and publishing a self-assessment on our website, which is updated annually.

A copy of our most recent self-assessment is shown below. Previous versions of the self-assessments are available upon request.

Read a copy of our Self-Assessment for September 2023

Download a copy of the Housing Ombudsman Complaint Handling Code

For further details about the Housing Ombudsman see the Contact details listed below.

Further information and external bodies you can contact

Housing Ombudsman Service
PO Box 152, Liverpool, L33 7WQ
Tel: 0300 111 3000  
E-mail: [email protected] 

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
PO Box 4771, Coventry, CV4 0EH
Tel: 0300 061 0614
www.Igo.org.uk 
    
Care Quality Commission Customer Service Centre
Citygate, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PA
Tel: 0300 616161
www.cqc.org.uk    

First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) - (leaseholders and tenants)
An application can be made to the Tribunal to address certain types of disputes (such as service charge disputes or rent increases).  For a full list of their areas of jurisdiction please see the website detailed below.

Contact details for your regional office can be found by visiting: https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals/first-tier-tribunal-property-chamber

The Leasehold Advisory Service
Tel:  020 7832 2500 
www.lease-advice.org

Energy Ombudsman 
P.O. Box 966, Warrington, WA4 9DF
Tel: 0330 440 1624
Email: [email protected]
www.energyombudsman.org
The Energy Ombudsman handles disputes between consumers energy suppliers (in some situations this will be Anchor).