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In conversation with David Lammy... how to be an anti-racist organisation?
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Marketing Lead - on 26/05/2021On Tuesday 25 May 2021 we were joined by David Lammy MP for a webinar to discuss how to be an anti-racist organisation, and what that means for the housing sector.
Comments: 0Launch Pad relaunches with Vericon Systems
by Michael McLaughlin, Digital Lead - on 25/05/2021Launch Pad showcases some of the most progressive thinking, products and services with potential to transform the UK housing sector. And we’re delighted to say, it’s back.
Comments: 0Community Insight and youth unemployment
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Marketing Lead - on 19/03/2021A conversation with Sally Ross, Community Engagement Lead Officer at Magenta Living, on how her team have been using Community Insight to tackle youth unemployment.
Comments: 0International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Communications Officer - on 08/03/2021Perhaps more so than any year before, this international women’s day feels particularly poignant, especially for the UK social housing sector.
Comments: 0Measuring resilience
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Communications Officer - on 15/02/2021HACT is working with settle, Sovereign and whg to create an innovative framework for understanding and measuring the resilience of social housing residents. We are inviting the wider sector to contribute towards the development of a common definition and measurement approach.
Comments: 0“We want everyone to have a voice”
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright - on 05/02/2021Camille Yerles, Customer Involvement Officer at The Barnet Group, shares what they’ve been up to since Black Lives Matter.
Comments: 07 reasons why the census data is still relevant
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Marketing Lead - on 06/01/2021Census data is critical to Community Insight and as soon as the new census is released, we will be uploading its data to the system. However, in the absence of new data, the 2011 census is still useful.
Comments: 0With thanks to our Board
by Jacqui Bateson, Managing Director - on 10/12/2020What a difference a year makes! This time last year, we were busy developing plans for HACT’s 60th birthday celebrations. In February, we hosted a Board awayday where we shared our plans and were given illuminating and insightful feedback from our Board.
Comments: 0ESG and community investment webinar
by Thames Menteth-Wheelwright, Communications Officer - on 10/11/2020On 5 November the Centre for Excellence in Community Investment hosted a webinar on ESG and community investment. Speakers from across the social housing sector came together to discuss the challenges facing housing associations as they seek to demonstrate the social impact of their community investment work.
Comments: 0Validating opportunities for improving repairs and maintenance services
by Jo Oliveira, Unboxed - on 10/11/2020How can social housing organisations use the principles and practices of resident-centred approaches to improve repairs and maintenance? That’s the question that Unboxed, a service design and digital product development agency, will be discussing with a limited number of delegates at a HACT-hosted workshop on 19 November.
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