Happy New Year!
Photo of Belle Isle Circus by Kirsty Bates We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year. As we enter a period of national lockdown, we are all being told to stay at home. Further stay at home guidance on what you can and can’t do can be found […]
New fruit & nut bushes for Belle Isle Circus
BITMO caretakers have planted 105 new fruit and nut bushes on Belle Isle Circus. The plants were received free from the Woodland Trust. They are hazel, blackthorn, crab apple, elder, dog rose, rowan. It’s obvious that hazel will produce hazelnuts, but what about the others? Blackthorn – sloe berries for jam or gin Crab […]
Christmas and New Year opening
[…] light switches or power sockets Open your windows and air the property We would like this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year BITMO’s GATE community centre will run normal hours until Friday 20 December. It will be open 1-4pm on Saturday 21 December for the repair café […]
Get a New Job
If you are a Belle Isle tenant and looking for a new job, we may be able to help. Regularly updated vacancies board in BITMOs GATE and job adverts published on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/belleisletmo/ Help creating or updating your CV and loading it to recruitment sites. Help with job searching. Advice on career […]
Swap your home
[…] A mutual exchange is where you swap your home and tenancy contract with someone. It’s different to a tenancy transfer where you apply and bid for a new home on a local housing register and are prioritised based on your needs. Mutual Exchange can be a good way of finding your new home, one […]
Big vote for BITMO in the Belle Isle Ballot
[…] voted by a huge majority for BITMO to continue. This was announced by BITMO’s Annual General Meeting by the Chair, Leon Kirkham. The meeting also elected five new tenant Board members. Jean Burton, Julie Rhodes and Tracy Morris return to the Board while Trevor Brown and Gerry Roberts are new members. Twelve Belle Isle […]
Being a BITMO Tenant
[…] advantages that brings. Housing Leeds is a large organisation with a lot of resources. You have rights, like the Right to Buy and a secure tenancy ( new tenants have an intital period as Introductory Tenants). You also the advantages brought to you because your area is run by a tenant management organisation. Among […]
Update from the BITMO Board
by BITMO Chief Executive, Deborah Kelly Our Board met at the end of July to discuss and agree some new policies and changes to what we do, which included: a designated reserves policy that will give us an additional £70,000 per year to give in grants to our customers and to enhance the physical […]
Planned Works
This section provides information of all planned works including new kitchens and bathrooms, heating, roofs and front doors. BITMO plans to spend £1,483,300 on planned works between April 2025 and March 2026. This will include: 53 kitchen replacements 10 bathroom replacements 128 boiler replacements 14 Mansard roofs 30 homes having window replacements 73 outside […]
Fencing Policy
[…] not the landlord’s responsibility. If there is a section of fencing that is the landlord’s responsibility, we will wherever possible replace damaged fencing with hedging. When a new tenant moves into their home we will make sure that any fencing and garden gates to the property are secure and in a reasonable state of […]
