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  • Has lockdown changed your technology strategy?

    18 November 2020

    Jimmy is Sales Director at Castleton an MRI Software Company

    At the recent National Smaller Housing Association’s Conference and Exhibition, I hosted a seminar discussing how lockdowns have tested the IT capabilities of social housing providers. I was joined by two members of staff from Squared, a smaller housing association we are working with on their digital transformation. Although Squared started their project with us before lockdown, it has become even more significant that the changes they are making to their back office systems and digital tenant services are essential for future growth and demand.

    Has lockdown changed your technology strategy?
  • Top tips for partnering as a smaller housing association

    16 October 2020

    Pam is Chair of New Forest Villages Housing Association

    Ahead of our session on partnership working at the National Smaller Housing Associations’ Conference and Exhibition, I wanted to share the positive experience we've had of working with English Rural and how we've made it a success.

    Top tips for partnering as a smaller housing association
  • Being a board member during a pandemic: priorities and challenges

    1 October 2020

    John is Chair of Tpas and a board member of two housing associations

    Ahead of our National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference in November 2020, we caught up with John Giesen to find out how the pandemic has impacted his role as a board member and why he's attending the event this year.

    Being a board member during a pandemic: priorities and challenges
  • Putting the zero carbon ambition within reach of every new affordable home

    29 September 2020

    Ulrike is Development Director at Hastoe Housing Association

    Hastoe specialises in affordable, rural and sustainable developments. And it makes us experts in managing the fine line between delivering energy-efficient homes and keeping building costs at an acceptable level.

    Putting the zero carbon ambition within reach of every new affordable home
  • Thinking big: an innovative approach to delivering new homes

    11 September 2020

    Robin is Chief Executive of Sutton Housing Trust

    On 16 October 2019, Sutton Housing Society submitted five planning applications to the London Borough of Sutton for 79 additional one bedroom self-contained flats, to our schemes. Whilst the initial phase of applications may appear small to some, this equates to 16% of our overall estate, which for a small organisation is quite a large number!

    Thinking big: an innovative approach to delivering new homes
  • Adapting supported housing in times of crisis

    19 August 2020

    John is Chief Executive of Golden Lane Housing

    Housing associations providing supported housing have become very accustomed to operating in uncertain and challenging times. There has been sustained cutbacks in social care and successive reductions in support funding for tenants. The proposed local housing allowance cap threatened vast parts of the sector and whilst overturned, its legacy remains today.

    Adapting supported housing in times of crisis
  • Round-up of the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2019

    8 November 2019

    Chris is Head of Events at the National Housing Federation

    What a thought-provoking two days at the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2019.

    Round-up of the National Smaller Housing Associations' Conference 2019
  • Delivering in the community

    5 November 2019

    Clare is Chair of the g320

    We are on a journey to meet the housing needs of our local communities and as these rise and change, smaller housing associations are meeting the challenge.

    Delivering in the community
  • Showcase: Together we can

    31 October 2019

    Waltham Forest Housing Association are a smaller place- based association, working in the London Borough of Waltham Forest for just over 50 years.

    Tenants, board members, staff and other supporters of Waltham Forest Housing Association (WFHA) joined us at their offices on Thursday 26 September 2019 to celebrate the launch of their first-ever film, ‘Together we can’.

    Showcase: Together we can
  • Successful partnerships: Community Land Trusts and housing associations

    28 October 2019

    Tom is Co-Chief Executive of the National CLT Network

    Norton-sub-Hamdon is a picture postcard village nestled in the low hills of south Somerset. It's home to one of a growing number of successful partnerships between Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and housing associations and shows the benefits that both parties can bring to one another.

    Successful partnerships: Community Land Trusts and housing associations
  • Relationships built on trust

    17 October 2019

    Amanda is Chief Executive of Black Country Housing Group

    Trust. A word loaded with emotion and feeling. Trust is a big word, one you associate with parent and child, husband and wife. It infers faith, safety, belief, confidence and honesty. So what does trust even look like in a landlord tenant relationship?

    Relationships built on trust
  • Homelessness – what more could housing associations do?

    17 September 2019

    David is Chief Executive of Hightown Housing Association

    Shelter estimates that around 300,000 people are in temporary accommodation and 5,000 people are rough sleeping. Despite everything that is being done by Government, by local authorities, by homelessness charities and by housing associations, these figures are not reducing – indeed many believe that the rough sleeping figures are an underestimate.

    Homelessness – what more could housing associations do?
  • Helping you unlock your growth potential

    23 October 2018

    John is a Senior Development Consultant at Red Loft

    Never before has the need for more affordable homes been greater, and housing associations of all sizes have a role to play in solving this crisis.

    Helping you unlock your growth potential
  • Small is beautiful

    18 October 2018

    Paul Mullis is Chief Executive at Durham Aged Miners Homes

    ‘Big is beautiful’ the saying goes, and for a long time, it appeared that this was the belief of the powers that be when it came to social housing, and housing associations in particular.

    Small is beautiful
  • Working in partnership to build new homes

    8 October 2018

    Philip Murton is Managing Director of Iceni Homes, a joint venture development company owned by Colne Housing, Hundred Houses and Suffolk Housing

    With an ever-increasing focus on improving performance whilst also becoming more efficient, the challenge for all housing associations, but especially smaller housing associations, to think about how to do things differently has never been greater.

    Working in partnership to build new homes
  • Time for a balanced view on modern methods of construction

    28 September 2018

    Allison Whittington is the Head of Housing at Zurich Municipal

    It’s hard to remember a time when the word ‘crisis’ wasn’t used in any discussion about Britain’s housing shortage.

    Time for a balanced view on modern methods of construction
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