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Five years on
by James Williams, Head of Social Impact - on 11/01/2019Next month, the fifth annual social value conference will be held in Leeds, hosted by HACT and the Northern Housing Consortium. Against a backdrop of continuing political uncertainty and economic austerity, the conference is an opportunity to hear about the latest developments in social value.
Comments: 0Don’t get lost in translation
by Andrew van Doorn, Chief Executive - on 16/12/2018Later this week, the government is expected to release its ten-year plan for the NHS. Although bearing in mind the political upheavals we witnessed last week, it’s touch and go as to whether this will or will not happen.
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by Barry Malki, Head of Communities - on 10/12/2018Last week, I attended an interesting event to showcase the Community Impact Partnership, a £3m social investment fund run by Clarion, Peabody L&Q and Orbit. The programme provides an alternative option to traditional models of funding by offering a blend of grants and loan of between £25,000 and £150,000 to community businesses, social enterprises and charities.
Comments: 0The view from Bristol
by Barry Malki, Head of Communities - on 06/12/2018We wrapped up our tour of Centre for Excellence Roadshows in Bristol last week, at the rather brilliant Armada Rooms. The conversation was lively with attendees coming from as far apart as Plymouth and Newcastle, and it was nice to see a few familiar faces.
Comments: 0Focusing on reactive repairs
by Jay Saggar, Digital Lead - on 04/12/2018Last week, we released version 2.0 of the UK Housing Data Standards. This version is the culmination of four months of hard work from the project team made up of eight housing providers (Coastline, Halton Housing Trust, L&Q, Lewisham Homes, Magna, Metropolitan Thames Valley, Poplar HARCA and Settle) plus OSCRE and HACT.
Comments: 0The view from Cardiff
by Vikki Holloway - on 23/11/2018Yesterday I was invited to a workshop in Cardiff being run by Barry and Adam from HACT to develop the Centre for Excellence in Community Investment. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect...
Comments: 0Speaker spotlight: Sarah Mbatha, Octavia
by Matthew Grenier - on 22/11/2018In the build-up to our Innovation in Practice 2018 conference, we interviewed Sarah Mbatha from Octavia, one of the speakers at the conference.
Comments: 0What’s working?
by Jahkeita McHardy - on 21/11/2018“As our sector comes under increasing pressure to demonstrate the impact of services in empirical terms, so more organisations are looking to put these interventions to test,” Dr Rob Wray, Deputy Chief Executive of HACT said. “And randomised control trials (RCTs) are seen as the gold standard for providing hard evidence of what actually works.”
Comments: 0Speaker spotlight: Aviv Katz, YearHere
by Matthew Grenier - on 16/11/2018In the build-up to our Innovation in Practice 2018 conference, we interviewed Aviv Katz, from YearHere, one of the speakers at the conference.
Comments: 0Devil is in the detail
by Sam Scharf, Orbit Group - on 14/11/2018Following the budget announcements last week we welcomed the top level announcement on the additional support and funding for Universal Credit roll out. With 61% of customers in receipt of Universal Credit in arrears, Orbit have been actively looking at how we support customers and are successfully reducing levels of arrears. However, we know that the wider rollout will continue to put pressure on us as a business, and more importantly on our customers.
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