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Bringing Housing and Sport together for Community Impact
by Kavita Tailor - on 06/11/2017A look at the importance of sport in housing association community investment activity.
Comments: 0What works in helping tenants into work? Let’s find out together
by Brian Robson is Policy & Research Programme Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - on 21/06/2017Landlords increasingly offer employment support to tenants – but if we’re to avoid wasting their time and money, that needs to be underpinned by the best possible evidence. Brian Robson from JRF explains more about a new partnership between HACT and JRF that aims to assemble this evidence base.
Comments: 0Innovative sport and physical activity interventions
by Dean Ashton - on 09/05/2017Within the housing sector, the role that sport and physical activity interventions can play in engaging and improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable and disadvantaged people is increasingly being recognised.
Comments: 0A roundup of the latest data updates in Community Insight!
by OCSI - on 09/05/2017The latest news directly from our Community Insight partners.
Comments: 0A brand new suite of indicators on housing affordability
by OCSI - on 26/04/2017Housing affordability is a key issue affecting communities across the county. Being able to understand housing affordability, accurately and at a local level is incredibly valuable.
Comments: 0What is the Social Purpose of housing now?
by Andrew van Doorn - on 06/04/2017Being clear about our social purpose is now more important than ever. Andrew van Doorn talks about what social purpose actually means and why it needs to be in bedded in your wider organisational strategy.
Comments: 0Creating impact through community investment: wellbeing, life-skills training and employment initiatives
by Simon Underwood - on 17/01/2017Ahead of the next Community Investment seminar, Simon Underwood, Director at Social Regeneration Consultants discusses the need to find more integrated solutions to current community investment activities
Comments: 0Is Housing Really Ready to Go Digital? HACT’s digital housing programme for 2017
by Matt Leach - on 07/12/2016Over the last week, I’ve been blogging about how housing needs to radically change its approach to going digital. On Monday, I blogged about the five main failure points in UK housing’s approach to going digital. On Tuesday, I focused on the three main barriers to change and how we overcome them. On Wednesday, I asked the question quite how far housing businesses can go in digitally transforming themselves in 2017. Yesterday I set out the key changes that need to happen if housing is to truly go digital in 2017 and launched HACT’s digital on board governance initiative, in partnership with TechUK and Hannington Tame.
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