Explore the full agenda for the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2025

9:00am

Registration and virtual platform open

9:15am

Breakfast briefing

Duration: 30 minutes

9:50am

Chair's opening remarks

Duration: 10 minutes

Speaker:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing

10:00am

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Kate Henderson

    Kate Henderson
    National Housing Federation

  • Paul Smith

    Paul Smith
    Elim Housing

  • Andy Nelson

    Andy Nelson
    Homes England

Chair:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing

10:45am

Short break and changeover

10:50am

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Kate Dodsworth

    Kate Dodsworth
    Regulator of Social Housing

  • Lorraine Mealings

    Lorraine Mealings
    Bournemouth Churches Housing Association

  • Claire Warren

    Claire Warren
    Pickering and Ferens Homes

  • Sam Grix

    Sam Grix
    Devonshires

Chair:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing

11:35am

Networking break

11:55am

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Liz Jones

    Liz Jones
    National Care Forum

  • Andrew Redfern
    Framework Housing Associations

Chair:

  • Sarah Finnegan

    Sarah Finnegan
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Dominic Robson

    Dominic Robson
    TLT LLP

  • Jas Sidhu

    Jas Sidhu
    St Basils

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Andrew van Doorn

    Andrew van Doorn
    HACT

  • Linda Wallace

    Linda Wallace
    PHA Homes

Chair:

  • Viktorija Kiselyte
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Hayley Reeves

    Hayley Reeves
    Tribepad

  • Emily Wicks

    Emily Wicks
    Horton Housing

  • Kerry McCafferty
    St Mungos

Chair:

  • Victoria Shannon

    Victoria Shannon
    National Housing Federation

12:35pm

Networking break and lunch

12:40pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Speaker:

  • Charlotte Hilliard
    Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government

1:20pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Annie Owens

    Annie Owens
    National Housing Federation

Chair:

  • Kevin Garvey

    Kevin Garvey
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Karl Philips

    Karl Philips
    Sapphire Independent Housing

  • Tracey Downie

    Tracey Downie
    Women’s Pioneer Housing

  • Sue Hockett

    Sue Hockett
    Women’s Pioneer Housing

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Dan Hawthorn

    Dan Hawthorn
    Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

  • Clare Norton

    Clare Norton
    Peter Bedford Housing Association

Chair:

  • Bethan Buck

    Bethan Buck
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Cox

    Jonathan Cox
    Housemark

  • Julie Layton

    Julie Layton
    Advance

  • Will Perry

    Will Perry
    Regulator of Social Housing

Chair:

  • Sophie Hayward

    Sophie Hayward
    Westmoreland Supported Housing

2:00pm

Networking break

2:20pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Lee Buss Blair

    Lee Buss Blair
    Riverside Care and Support

  • Rachael Kaminski

    Rachael Kaminski
    Care Housing Association

  • Edwina Prayogo
    Your Place

Chair:

  • Sue Ramsden

    Sue Ramsden
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Rebecca Pritchard

    Rebecca Pritchard
    Transform Housing

  • Jenni Howell

    Jenni Howell
    Black Country Housing Group

Chair:

  • Jo Allen

    Jo Allen
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Chris D’Arcy

    Chris D’Arcy
    Chirpy Heat

  • Glynis Gatenby
    Sutton Housing Society

Chair:

  • Lizzie Hearn

    Lizzie Hearn
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Carolina Padovezi de Oliveira

    Carolina Padovezi de Oliveira
    Manningham

  • Dr Simon Williams

    Dr Simon Williams
    Service Insights

Chair:

  • Cara Green

    Cara Green
    National Housing Federation

3:00pm

Networking break and meet the exhibitors

3:20pm

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Fiona Humprey
    Providence Row Housing Association

  • Emma Kafero
    NHS and Poplar Harca

  • Liz Zeidler

    Liz Zeidler
    The Centre for Thriving Places

Chair:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing

4:05pm

Short break and changeover

4:10pm

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Rachael Fullwood

    Rachael Fullwood
    Lincolnshire Rural Housing Partnership

  • Aniekan Umoren

    Aniekan Umoren
    Christian Action Housing Association

  • David Chaffey

    David Chaffey
    BHT Sussex

Chair:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing

4:55pm

Chair's closing remarks

Duration: 5 minutes

Speaker:

  • Charmaine Simei

    Charmaine Simei
    Tuntum Housing