All-Ireland Housing Awards 2024

Aico, an Ei Company, are the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high quality alarms, developed and manufactured in Ireland. All Aico alarms meet UK standards and offer a variety of sensor types to guarantee protection for every home, the cornerstone of which is delivering education, quality, service and innovation. In 2020, Aico expanded their Connected Home offering with the acquisition of leading Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, HomeLINK. HomeLINK are a multi-award-winning high-tech software team within Aico that leverage cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.

Choice Housing Ireland Limited (Choice) is a registered voluntary Housing Association and charity. We are a ‘profit for a purpose’ social enterprise established over 40 years ago to provide quality housing and tenant support services at an affordable rent. Today, Choice has 12,000 homes and employs almost 400 people in a Group structure that includes our own repairs and maintenance (Choice Services), private rented and affordable for sale (Maple and May), and Republic of Ireland Comhar FM subsidiaries.

Woven, formerly Habinteg Housing Association (Ulster) Ltd was founded in 1976. Woven plans, develops and manages ‘integrated’ housing schemes in both urban and rural areas throughout the region and works with a number of partner organisations in providing supported housing projects. Woven currently has over 2500 properties at more than 100 locations and 18 partnership schemes.

Woven’s Vision - ‘Homes, lives and communities; Woven, as one’ encapsulates the central aim of providing housing which combines a range of dwelling types - family houses, apartments and bungalows - in order to appropriately meet the needs of the widest range of users, including older persons and persons with a disability.

We provide high quality, affordable homes for rent throughout Northern Ireland and help facilitate home ownership for people who are not in a position to purchase a home outright.

We believe that housing is about people and our focus is our customers. We want to make a positive difference to our tenants' lives and invest in neighbourhoods to create places where people are proud to live and raise their families and where they can prosper.

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From its Incorporation in 1993, North & East Housing Association has focused on the simple philosophy of providing quality homes while supporting tenants to build communities. Currently we provide housing management and tenant support to some 740 homes  in 26 locations across 11 local authority areas in the north eastern region of the country.

We believe that housing is about more than bricks and mortar and we continuously strive to put our tenants at the heart of everything we do and endeavour to ensure that their voice is heard throughout the organisation.

The Department for Communities (DfC) is the largest department in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, providing support to meet the needs of some of the most disadvantaged people, families and communities across Northern Ireland. DfC delivers a wide range of services to the public – both directly and through its Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) –supporting people, building communities and shaping places.  Its functions include the delivery of social security, child maintenance and pensions, providing advice and support for those seeking employment and for those who are unable to work, ensuring the availability of good quality and affordable housing, encouraging diversity and participation in society and promoting social inclusion, promoting sports and leisure within our communities, supporting local government to deliver services, and supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector.

Co-Ownership is Northern Ireland’s regional body for shared ownership, a not-for-profit organisation that helps people become homeowners. Since 1978 Co-Ownership has supported over 30,000 people buying a home in Northern Ireland.

Co-Ownership has 3 products available: Co-Own, Rent to Own and the recently launched Co-Own for Over 55s.

Co-Own and Co-Own for 55 are equity sharing products, which means our customers buy as much of the property as they can, and Co-Ownership buy the rest. Rent to Own is for people who are not yet financially ready for homeownership but are working towards it. Co-Ownership currently has over 10,000 co-owners.

The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) is the national representative federation for approved housing bodies in Ireland. Our membership comprises a diverse range of organisations with differing capacity, ambitions, and expertise; each playing their part in meeting housing need. The ICSH represents approximately 270 member organisations that manage close to 55,000 homes across 500 communities that house more than 120,000 people. AHBs also provide services that support individuals’ capacity to enjoy their right to full participation in the areas of education, health, employment, social integration and inclusion, housing rights and the environment. The ICSH has been in operation for more than 40 years and we are delighted to be sponsoring the Young Professional of the Year award as the sector looks to the future, continues to innovate and meet new challenges.

Apex Housing Association provides and maintains almost 7,000 high-quality homes and delivers support to over 16,000 tenants and residents across Northern Ireland. 

Our vision is for every person to enjoy great quality homes and support in vibrant and caring communities.

We are a not-for-profit housing association led by volunteers and working to social enterprise principles; and employ more than 600 staff. 

We provide:

• General needs housing for families and single people
• Purpose-built accommodation for older people and families with complex needs
• Supported housing for people with mental ill health, learning disabilities, alcohol/drug addictions, those who are physically disabled and young people in need of support
• Housing support for vulnerable groups under the Supporting People programme
• Support services for tenants and the wider community through our community investment programme
• Community buildings under the management of local communities

For more information visit www.apex.org.uk, phone 028 7130 4800 or follow us on our socials.

+AddJust, based in Kilrush, Co. Clare, develops and implements housing asset management software for local government, AHB’s and the property sector. 

Our digital asset management (DAM) solutions are modern, simple to use and extremely powerful for managing property assets and data, whether you have dozens or thousands of properties. 

We are delighted to sponsor the Best Housing Development award at the All-Ireland Housing Awards 2024.

We are also proud to have been selected as the sole provider of the National ICT Asset Management system to manage all social houses (c.150,000) in the local authority sector in the Republic of Ireland. This involves the rollout of our housing asset management solutions to all 31 Local Authorities in the Republic of Ireland.  

We are a growing business and we are passionate about continuous improvement and digital transformation.

Adopting our Digital Housing Asset Management solutions enables organisations to speedily move from reactive to preventative/cyclical maintenance programmes. This will greatly improve the longevity and performance of the asset, reduce reactive and repairs maintenance, improve the relationship between the tenant and the housing provider and lead to significant improvements in governance standards. +AddJust is built from the ground up and our modules interconnect like no other system. Collected data becomes connected data on our single solution platform, driving significant efficiencies and cost savings

Circle Voluntary Housing Association was set up in 2003 to provide high quality social and affordable housing to families and individuals in the Dublin area. Circle VHA now operates over Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Tipperary, Waterford and Kilkenny providing both housing and facilities management services in its developments.

Circle works together with local authorities, State agencies, developers and funders to deliver new-build social and affordable housing solutions.

Sponsor information coming soon.

Fold Housing’s mission is to provide quality homes and support to people who need them. As a leader in the provision of older persons housing and care services we especially recognise the importance of collaborative working and are therefore delighted to sponsor the Working in Partnership award. Partnerships with many statutory agencies, not for profit organisations, community groups and our residents, all contribute to our work in delivering homes and services that support independence and vitality in older age.  A celebration of this is a thank you to everyone who makes partnerships work so we can be greater than the sum of our individual organisations.

Fold has 662 homes in management, of which 66% are independent living homes for older people, 17% Housing with Care (HwC) for frail older people and those living with dementia, and 17% are general community housing. We have an active housing development pipeline and aim to be a strong player in meeting the growing housing and care needs within our communities.

PrepayPower is Ireland's leading smart metering pay-as-you-go energy provider. For over a decade, we've offered consumers an alternative method of paying for utilities.

We believe our customers should have the ability to pay for their energy based on actual usage, utilising data insights. Through our user-friendly smart app, we provide customers with a platform to understand their energy profile and empower them to make smarter energy choices, to reduce waste and avoid getting into financial hardship.

We firmly believe that the greenest energy we have is the energy we conserve.

We take pride in our commitment to supporting the housing industry as it pioneers the electrification of homes for a more sustainable future. Additionally, we prioritise our customers' financial wellbeing and their ability to make informed decisions through data-led energy technology at the core of all our endeavours.

We are honoured to sponsor this award category focusing on tenant financial wellbeing and wish all the well-deserved nominees the very best.