Sussex housebuilders offer NHS workers special home-buying scheme

The building firm is behind the Saxon Mills development in Hassocks, the Wychwood Park development in Haywards Heath. and the Chalkers Rise development in Peacehaven

A spokesman for Barratts said: “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.”

Barratt Southern Counties managing director Julian Hodder 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.”

In the southern counties, the company has also donated personal protective items, including high quality FFP3 face masks, gloves and hand sanitiser, to local NHS hospitals and social care services.

And 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.

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