A housing association has said it will continue to ensure the health and safety of staff and customers during the coronavirus outbreak as it celebrated a milestone this week.

Thrive Homes, which has celebrated its 12th birthday, says it has taken "great precaution" to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff and residents by moving to remote working where possible.

The home-counties based association, which has its head office based in Hemel Hempstead, provides affordable homes across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Thrive Homes’ chief executive, Elspeth Mackenzie said: “I am delighted to celebrate our organisation’s 12th birthday. I am immensely proud of all employees across our organisation for working hard to provide affordable homes that enable people and families to sustain a good quality of life. Over the year, we met many milestones.

"We provided 115 additional homes in our operating areas with 90 per cent of them being affordable.

"Our recent survey recorded that 91 per cent of our customers are satisfied with our repair services while almost 80 per cent of our residents agree that their rent provides good value for money. We have a number of developments in our pipeline that will complete before we turn 13 and I’m looking forward to continuing to drive towards our mission.”