Visiting Haringey Council’s new memory cafe

New careers toolkit from the Chartered Institute of Housing

Kinovo Group is proud to be sponsoring the ‘Sustainability in Housing Theatre’ at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s ‘Housing Brighton 2025’ event for the third year running

We recently had the pleasure of updating the Basketball Courts for Prospex Youth Development Centre with Hyde Housing

Pippa Pang was amongst the speakers at the Travis Perkins Better Homes Customer Summit

We have taken on two fantastic young people through Nova Training

Industry leaders, recruiters, and Social Value specialists came together to support #ChooseHousing campaign launch

Proud we have been awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘Installer Team of the Year’ category at the Heating & Plumbing Monthly Awards 2025

Our engineers recently took part in Non-Licensed Asbestos Removal Training (Cat B) at our Dereham office.  

A Barnet resident received a helping hand from the Purdy team to refresh her home.

What an amazing group of people we have as our team.

Thank you, Thanvir, for working with us.

We’re delighted to have been named ‘Highly Commended’ in the Installer Team of the Year.

Another great apprenticeship event during NAW 2025…

Our very own Fay Poddington is stepping out of her comfort zone for an amazing cause Teens Unite Fighting Cancer. 

Thank you Nerhan for volunteering your time to support the Peabody Darwin Court Foodbank!

Introducing the next generation to our vibrant sector is really important to us. 

We love supporting Good Neighbours events. 

It was all hands on deck for the Chingford Hall Estate clean up!

We are delighted to announce we have successfully secured a new contract with the London Borough of Hackney through NHMF NPC Frameworx. The new multi-million-pound contract involves a range of decarbonisation and responsive repairs.   

Purdy team recently volunteered to help at the Good Neighbours Kids’ Halloween Party, to ensure the kids in the local The Hyde Group community had a spooky fun day! 

Purdy attended the Peabody Careers Carousel event, engaging with young people who are eager to start planning their careers after they leave school next year.

Purdy has recently released its Annual Report and Accounts.

We are thrilled to have been awarded the Social Value Digital Badge by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD). 

The latest WISH (Women in Social Housing) event in London celebrated the diverse identities and rich cultural heritage of South Asia.

Jake’s journey with Purdy began in 2019, where he initially served as an admin team leader…

Kinovo plc has recently released its Annual Report and Accounts.

We have received a number of Direct Awards from new clients.

Fiona is a well-known face and will be creating valuable strategic growth opportunities.

The Kinovo Plc Annual Report 2024 has been published.

Purdy has been named a Successful Suppliers on the new Eastern Procurement Heating Framework. 

Pippa joined the business in March 2021 as a Marketing Consultant…

We were thrilled to be invited by B3 to assist on a project at The Friary

We met recently to discuss ongoing and future collaborations with The Guinness Partnership

A great day was had by all at the Teens Unite It’s a Knockout fun day

We’re proud to sign the pledge to be part of the #stopsocialhousingstigma movement.

We are thrilled to announce Trudie’s appointment to the Group.

If you ever wanted to see a perfect example of a career path, look no further than Glen Soper.

Our client and close partner Saffron Housing celebrated in the Housing Association of the Year East of England Energy Efficiency Awards 2024 ceremony.

We are pleased to announce a series of new contracts in recent months

Great result in the South East Energy Efficiency Awards 2024

Oasis Play centre gets a makeover

Thank you to Gary Jarram for 20 years service

Doing things right

The new Purdy office in Dereham, Norfolk is officially open.

Harvey Pipe, a Business Admin Apprentice in the Dunhams team, shares his apprenticeship story.

23 year-old Keanu Wheeler-Hamm is a Commercial Gas Apprentice with Purdy’s who has almost completed his apprenticeship.

Reece Beckles will be taking to the tools to learn the practical side of contract delivery for Purdy.

E is for Environment

As a PLC, one of Kinovo Group’s responsibilities is of course to offer shareholder value

During December, teams from across the group were taking part in the Around the World Before Christmas Challenge

Reaching Net Zero by 2040 is a goal that sits at the heart of everything we do

We recently supported Peabody to set up a foodbank at Darwin Court in Walworth, London.

Welcome to Lorraine Clayton, Retrofit Lead at Purdy

Significant new framework awards for Purdy

Working hard to cement diversity and equality at our core

Creation of a children’s playroom at Homeleigh Court, Spire Housing

A progress update on our Net Zero strategy

Following HR’s inaugural visit to HMP Belmarsh a few weeks ago to meet with their Employability Lead, Michelle Molver; Dawn and Nerhan were invited back to speak to around 20 inmates in their Employability Hub about working in our Sector.

On the back of the visit of HMP Wandsworth, Dawn & Nerhan, visited HMP Belmarsh, 5 miles down the road from our Erith Office, on 31st May followed by HMP Brixton on 22nd June.

On Tuesday, 21st February Dawn Kemp, Group HR Director, and Nerhan Yilmaz, our In-House Recruiter, had an interesting visit to HMP Wandsworth to provide information to serving prisoners about working in our sector and about the Kinovo Group.

A team of volunteers worked together to decorate the Millennium Community Centre.

We attended the Apprenticeship & Participation Event on Monday 6th February, at the Civic Offices in Bexleyheath.

We are happy to be one of the sponsors of the NHMF frameworx lounge, enabling them to make their first charitable donation.

We are exhibiting at the NHMF Annual conference to promote our recent No.1 ranking on the NHMF frameworx.

The contract, which comprises of electrical, commercial mechanical works and associated builders works, contains possible extensions of two further one-year terms.

We are pleased to announce that our subsidiary Purdy Contracts have been ranked No.1 following the award on the brand new NHMF Frameworx.

Proudly supporting youth football and potentially some new recruits and apprentices in the making.

Peter Franko – Supervisor on the Hyde Housing Safer Homes contract has wholeheartedly completed two Social Value projects in November

Peter Franko – Supervisor on the Hyde Housing Safer Homes contract wholeheartedly completed two Social Value projects last month.

We are delighted to announce that Lily McManus has now been promoted to the position of Junior Commercial Supervisor from 1st December 2022.

Charlie Harris and Reece Beckles delivered presents to Commerce Road Community Centre, for a Winterfest that has been organised for the children of Northumberland Park, in Haringey.

We are proud to share our new short film that succinctly introduces the Kinovo Group and each of our subsidiaries, Purdy Contracts Ltd, R Dunham UK Ltd, and Spokemead Maintenance Ltd.

Dawn Kemp, Lee Venables and Larry Rossal one of our Electrical Apprentices from R Dunham are attending our first Echelon Improvement Partnerships (EIP) AMIP meeting.

Over the past couple of weeks, our lovely colleagues have been bringing in donations for the local Peabody Pantry which is based in the Paradox Community Centre in Chingford.

Kinovo plc is pleased to report another period of strong momentum within the underlying business at this week’s Interim Results, with significant growth in both revenue and EBITDA.

Tim Blanc from Barnet Homes was ecstatic with the success of the recent 10 year anniversary for the Urban Gamez.

Members of the Kinovo and Purdy teams have been on-site at the Urban Gamez showing support to the local event as a proud sponsor.

Purdy’s second Social Value community project that is being carried out for Peabody.

We are delighted to announce that last week Purdy passed their 3-day annual audit for the re-assessment of ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001.

We are proud to be increasing the amount of volunteer projects that we get involved in. We are looking for local projects within the local communities where we have existing contracts, so that we can offer to help out.

Congratulations to Kye Gardner, one of Purdy’s Senior Commercial Supervisors, who celebrates his 10th anniversary working with the Group today, 1st August 2022.

The children at the Young Animators workshops have been very busy preparing sets, making puppets for our EV promo animation.

Purdy are now a PAS2030 registered installer.

Reactive Office Site based in Downs Road, Hackney has recently received a makeover in conjunction with Hackney Council.

A tough field of nominations for June, but Benji Oliver, Purdy Build’s Apprentice Plumber, came out on top with 12 of the 32 votes cast for Purdy’s EoTM.

The two Project EV dual charging units are now up and running and in full working order at Whitehill Golf Club.

Last month the Purdy Domestic Gas Team thoroughly enjoyed and afternoon training from Matt Taylor at Worcester Bosch, on the Worcester products.

Have you started to plan your itinerary whilst in Brighton attending the Chartered Institute of Housing conference?

Introducing Purdy’s Customer Service Team; friendly and professional in their approach, and the first people you’ll talk to when calling in.

Our workforce is made-up of almost one third (30.77%) women in an industry that is traditionally male-orientated Construction / Build Services sector.

Purdy/Kinovo Head Office are making steps towards reducing the Groups’ carbon footprint.

Fantastic feedback has been received from one of Purdy’s clients

Purdy have allocated specific resource to focus on the ‘Renewables’ pillar of the group strategy.

Aron Rayner, Purdy’s Domestic Gas Contracts Manager, has shared the following good news story.

Aron Rayner, Purdy’s Domestic Gas Contracts Manager, has shared the following good news story.

Purdy Contracts have been working alongside Hertford Regional College (HRC) to introduce apprentices into Purdy Head office, Brooklyn Lodge.

Congratulations to Grace Juniper who will be starting a new challenge within the business. Grace is moving from the Customer Service Call Centre and joining the Domestic Gas Team as a Contract Administrator on Monday 13th September 2021.

We are pleased to welcome Kerry Gable to the Purdy team. Kerry is a new Operational Site Supervisor based in Hackney and joined us on 31st August 2021.

We are pleased to welcome Jack Gilligan to the Purdy team. Jack has joined us in the new Contract Manager role of our new London Borough Wandsworth Contract.

Congratulations to Hilary Clark, Peter Lees, and all involved with the interviews carried out by the auditor for the recent ISO audit carried out in August.

We are pleased to announce that Dan Bevan has recently been appointed a new position within the Group.

Bilby plc (AIM: BILB) announces that the Company is unveiling a change of name and new corporate identity.