Local housebuilder Barratt Homes, who is building its Chilmington Green development on Hedgers Way in Ashford, Kent, has launched an NHS Deposit Contribution Scheme as a thank you to all NHS employees working hard to look after people during the COVID-19 crisis.
Launched in June, the NHS Deposit Contribution Scheme will offer all NHS employees a five per cent deposit to help them buy a new home. The new scheme is a way of offering a heartfelt thank you to the country’s 1.5m NHS workers, who will now be able to receive up to £15,000 towards buying any new Barratt home.
As a further thank you to NHS workers, Barratt Homes is also making the scheme available to people who have recently reserved a home but not yet completed, so that as many NHS workers as possible can benefit from the new deposit contribution.
Paul Kitchingman, Managing Director for Barratt Homes Kent, said: “We want to say a big thank you to our brilliant NHS workers who have shown such courage in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. This is why we are announcing this new NHS deposit contribution scheme to thank them for all they have done.”
Barratt Homes has been working hard throughout the coronavirus crisis to support the NHS, both at a local and national level. In Kent, the housebuilder contributed to the Meals for the NHS fund as well as donated personal protective items, including thousands of high quality FFP3 face masks, gloves and hand sanitiser, to local NHS hospitals and social care services.
At a national level, Barratt Homes donated £100,000 to the NHS Charities Together and a further £50,000 to The Sun’s Who Cares Wins campaign, providing help for frontline NHS staff. It donated more than 5,000 medical-grade facemasks to hospitals across the country and gave its entire stock of 400 defibrillators to St John Ambulance in England and Wales and St Andrew’s First Aid in Scotland.
To find out more about the NHS Deposit Contribution Scheme, visit www.barratthomes.co.uk