Find out more about the work of our exhibiting organisation below, or arrange to meet with them at the event in our networking lounge.
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Connect Modular supplies affordable, modular homes to housing associations, local authorities and housing developers across the UK. We strongly believe that our modular construction process is the most cost-effective, efficient and sustainable method for addressing the UK’s housing shortage. Under most contracts, we take on the principal contractor role, managing all aspects of the project from design and statutory consents to manufacture of housing and construction of ground and site works. This ensures a single point of responsibility for affordable housing clients.
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The SafeDeposits Scotland Charitable Trust is a grant-giving charity aimed at promoting education, training and best practice in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Trust awards grants to projects that meet its aims on a quarterly basis and encourages organisations with eligible projects to apply for funding. The Trust believes that those actively involved in the sector will have innovative and creative ideas to ensure it is the best that it can be for years to come. SafeDeposits Scotland, a not-for-profit organisation which safeguards over 150,000 deposits of private rented tenants under Scottish law, funds the Trust and grants awarded by the Trust. Since 2016, the SafeDeposits Scotland Charitable Trust has awarded more than £1 million in grants to projects across Scotland.
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Housemark is the leading data and insight company for the UK housing sector. As a catalyst and change partner, we are here to give you greater confidence to make evidence-based decisions that make a difference. By gathering on time insight we show you what is possible, how you could be performing and how you could make it happen. Only with Housemark can you access insight, analysis and services that makes a difference to your customers, your people and your business.
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Share is a leading learning and development provider dedicated to nurturing talent within the social housing and property sector in Scotland. With a commitment to excellence, Share has been at the forefront of transforming individuals and organisations through comprehensive qualifications, training programmes and Continuing Professional Development.
Delivering high-quality training with courses specifically tailored to meet the needs of the housing sector, from industry experts who bring real-world insights to the classroom, ensuring practical applicability of the knowledge gained and with flexible learning options that cater to diverse schedules and preferences, Share is your trusted partner on the journey to success.
Whether you are embarking on a career in the housing sector or seeking to elevate your organisation's capabilities, the range of courses available at Share can help you unlock your full potential in the vibrant landscape of Scotland's housing sector.
At Share, we're not just shaping careers; we're shaping the future of housing in Scotland.
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By combining automation technology, behavioural insights and data science, Voicescape creates customer communications that help drive substantial operational efficiencies and service level improvements. Social landlords can connect with their communities - at scale - across major customer touchpoints, including: collecting rent and reducing arrears; gathering instant feedback that drives meaningful actions; booking, confirming and re-booking mandatory safety appointments; and checking the well-being of sheltered housing residents.
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Ventro are one of the leading Fire Safety organisations in the UK, undertaking third party accredited Fire Safety surveying and remediation services to thousands of public and private sector organisations. Ventro provide the full range of fire safety services to building owners, from initial consultancy, surveying, and auditing, through to installation, and on-going maintenance. These services include Fire Compartmentation works such as Fire Doors and Fire Stopping, through to Alarms, Sprinklers and Electrical Lighting. Our approach ensures complete audit trails for building owners and promotes the principles of the Golden Thread of information, as laid out in the Hackitt Report.
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At LivGreen we are committed to generating zero carbon housing in the UK and have developed a high-level strategy to provide a complete service to assist housing landlords achieve their zero-carbon targets. Through retrofitting, we aim to reduce costs and improve carbon efficiency while promoting affordable warmth, improving environmental credentials and enhancing comfort levels for tenants.
With our extensive knowledge of working with the Housing Sector across the UK, we are trusted by property owners and housing organisations to deliver a best practice quality standard of retrofit with minimal disruption to tenants. All our assessors and installers are PAS 2023 certified and can deliver work at a scalability to meet all your property requirements.
Our housing retrofit program adopts a 5-step approach; from stock analysis and retrofit assessments, coordination and design to delivery monitoring and ongoing support, we are best positioned to help organisations meet their climate targets.
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CR Smith is perhaps Scotland’s longest running and well known home improvements businesses.
We credit this to our understanding that a person’s home is their haven and our offering to both the public & private sectors is based on this philosophy.
Our products & service are specifically designed not just for a beautiful aesthetic, but with a focus on energy efficiency, security and durability.
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Aspen People is the leading Executive Search Consultancy serving the RSL sector with permanent and interim solutions, working in partnership with organisations to attract the highest calibre of individuals with the cultural fit to each individual client. We’ve built on our executive search heritage, reflected in our dedication to quality, integrity and good governance at every level of recruitment.
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Established in 2001, Home Connections is a pioneering non-profit software house and social enterprise, owned and led by local authorities and housing associations across the UK.
Specialising in housing needs software, relocation and move-on support, and digital design and data services, we’ve been at the forefront of the housing sector’s digital evolution for over two decades – supporting over 200 organisations in the housing sector to advance their digital transformation, prevent and relieve homelessness and help people ultimately secure the home of their choice
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C~urb provides sector leading property development, management and maintenance services, throughout Scotland. Creating sustainable communities is our central aim, and we do this by building sustainably, maintaining homes efficiently and by managing ethically.
We will do this in a manner that minimises our impact on the environment and where we can, reverse the impact of Carbon emissions and c~urb greenhouse gases.
We’re new, but more than 60 years in the making. Originally, formed to provide dedicated services to the Link group of companies, C~urb was formally constituted in 2022, to bring its expertise to a wider market including RSLs, Local Authorities and the Scottish Government, as well as private companies and investors.
We are unique; providing full end to end asset development, maintenance and management services, or bespoke individual functions, tuned to our clients’ needs.
Building Homes: We deliver one of Scotland’s largest affordable housing programmes, through a highly expert, fully managed professional client service, delivering award winning new homes to Net Zero standards.
Maintaining Homes: We are an ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 accredited service providing a high quality reactive, compliance and void repairs service across Scotland’s central belt, managed from our Repairs hub in Falkirk. Complementing this, is our highly skilled installation teams, delivering major component renewals in tenants’ homes across Scotland.
Managing Homes: Our property management service is as diverse as it is professional; administering Scottish Government contracts, delivering Factoring services to homeowners and managing a large Private Rented Sector portfolio across Scotland, including our award-winning Private Sector leasing scheme for the City of Edinburgh Council.
Please visit our team at Stand 30 in the Exhibition hall and chat through how we can help you.
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Carpetright for Business works together with the social housing sector across public and private sector providers, including grant providers to create flooring solutions for their residents. We aim to help meet the flooring needs of the residents and as part of Carpetright, the UK’s leading flooring retailer, we have access to an unrivalled range of floorcoverings across the carpet, vinyl, luxury vinyl, laminate, and safety flooring categories. Our network of over 300 locations nationwide enables us to support your needs wherever you are in the country, including supply-only and supply & fit solutions. Our Central partnership operations team facilitate easy quoting and ordering & our market-leading e-gift card also allows you to provide direct grants to your residents safe in the knowledge it will be used for their flooring needs.
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With both Entrotec Limited and Key Management Systems (KMS) joining the CAME Group in 2021, to form CAME Entrotec and CAME KMS, the pre-existing alignment of company objectives has been synchronised and the natural synergies have been optimised. Creating a robust presence within the social housing market and allowing the development of further enhanced solutions.
CAME Entrotec are trusted pioneers of door entry solutions in the UK residential and commercial markets, renowned for manufacturing and supplying high-quality audio and video vandal resistant door entry, concierge systems, and proximity access control systems. In addition to providing expertly built and pre-configured equipment that is plug and play, CAME Entrotec takes pride in ensuring all clients receive the highest levels of service. Our highly skilled teams support clients throughout the entire process, ensuring that your property, whether residential or corporate building, has the most cost-effective door entry solution with guarantees of quality that are incomparable in the market. CAME Entrotec design and facilitates total security solutions that will protect you, your residents, and your property.
CAME KMS designs and produces the industry's leading remotely managed cloud-based access control systems for multi-dwelling local authorities and housing associations. CAME KMS delivers the most comprehensive solution on the market by seamlessly integrating technology, knowledge, and industry demands, which justifies its position as the UK's top provider within the housing sector. Continually revolutionising the market by developing the cloud-based access control system that simplifies access management and allows many buildings to be controlled through a single solution.
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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.
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Social housing partnerships have been our core business for over 26 years. We’re currently working with 15 social housing providers across mainland UK, from Aberdeen down to Dover. Our clients include large urban and rural local authorities, general and specialist housing associations and housing co-operatives, covering both domestic and commercial properties.
Our dynamic team have a clear understanding of what social housing clients expect to obtain from their heating contractors. This includes:
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Alertacall uses award-winning technology and regular contact from its friendly team to help housing and retirement living providers have better two-way contact with older and higher-needs people. Their touchscreen enables housing providers to know their customers and properties better.
Alertacall’s services include:
Housing Proactive® - this service uses a portable, easy-to-use touchscreen to make two-way contact, self-service and digital engagement simple.
The touchscreen features straightforward ways for customers to send messages to housing providers and to report repairs or problems such as antisocial behaviour. Housing providers can also use the touchscreen to send important information to residents and carry out surveys, such as capturing tenant satisfaction. They can also offer Alertacall’s optional OKEachDay® service to confirm occupancy and ensure that people and their properties are safe.
Beyond Warden CallTM - designed for digital switchover and easily replaces outdated, hard-wired warden call systems. It combines a portable digital touchscreen, fire safety, telecare and secure video door entry systems in a single package. It is simple and cost-effective to install with minimal cabling.
Alertacall’s services are tried and trusted by 60+ housing providers, and tens of thousands of people nationally.
Book a demonstration on contact@alertacall.com or 0808 208 1234
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EVH is an Employers Federation, formed in 1978, with its early roots in social housing organisations. In the past decade, it has moved beyond working in just this area and now assists Committees and Boards in their role as “employers” in around 150 not for profit organisations of all types, shapes and sizes throughout Scotland. EVH is a unique organisation and members joining it benefit from a variety of services, advice and support as needed. It remains Scotland’s leading provider of employment services. EVH is also unique in that it remains 100% volunteer led and operates on a not-for-profit basis, with any surplus generated being reinvested in the membership and the sectors we work within.
Our simple fee structure provides unlimited support and on-site assistance to members, and this pragmatic approach helps explain our steadfast member loyalty and ongoing growth within the not for profit and social sectors.
Come visit us at Stand No.90 to find out more.
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Sidey has been in business for over 90 years in Perth and is one of the UK’s longest established, most reliable, and experienced fenestration solution providers.
We are a Scottish manufacturer & installer of high performance, energy efficient windows, doors, conservatories, and innovative offsite solutions.
The type of works we carry out include supply only or supply & fit into, Local Authority, Housing Associations/RSL’s for replacement window and door projects, supply only & supply & fit for Newbuild developments along with supply only for Trade and supply & fit for Homeowner Sector.
With over 98% audited customer satisfaction.
Our comprehensive list of accreditations provide assurance that Sidey work to and maintain the highest standards.
We also have an extensive record of supporting local communities, working in partnership with our clients to deliver many and varied important community benefits. Sidey priorities the improvement of economic opportunities and outcomes for local communities.
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Britmet Lightweight Roofing is a privately owned business that manufactures in the UK and strives to achieve the highest levels of satisfaction and quality in the industry. Our vision is to provide products and support that go above and beyond the competition, adding value to our clients through innovation, sustainability, and service.
Britmet Lightweight Roofing offers a unique and bespoke service to our customers. We have over 40 years of experience working on countless projects with councils, housing associations, architects, surveyors, contractors and many more all over the UK. We are proud to offer our customers an array of services such as feasibility and budget quotations, site surveys, NBS specifications, and technical drawings for free as part of our system.
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Walker Profiles is a leading manufacturer, supplier and installer of high-quality PVC-U windows and doors. Our reputation is based on the quality of our products and services.
We work throughout Scotland - primarily with local authorities, housing associations and private house builders. The nature of the contracts we undertake varies from ‘supply only’ to ‘supply and fit’. We work on a wide variety of projects - from renovation to new residential housing and flatted developments.
We back up our product supply and installation services with an effective maintenance service. This is supported by our dedicated teams of maintenance engineers who can respond quickly and efficiently to fix any problem that occurs.
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ODCGIS have worked with almost 90 Social Housing Providers across the UK offering a GIS Data Capture Service along with their GIS Managed Service. Currently 37 housing associations have a Managed Service Package, some have their own GIS systems in-house, the others benefit from a low-cost GIS cloud-based solution (GISMO). ODCGIS’s unique GIS Managed Service gives access to a GIS officer every working day providing support, maintaining data, running analysis on your data and much more.
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Integrated Solutions at City Plumbing is the market leader for providing repair and maintenance material supply chain solutions to the affordable housing sector.
They've been the reputable purchase decision-makers for social housing, public sector organisations, facility management companies, and other repair and maintenance groups, for almost two decades.
Integrated Solutions, take their responsibilities seriously when it comes to economic, social, and environmental well-being. Putting people at the heart of their actions means focusing not just on the customer partnership but that too of the customer's customer.
They also work with and campaign for local communities and charities, lending our support whenever we can and where it’s needed most.
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The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) is the membership body for, and collective voice of, housing associations and co-operatives in Scotland.
Housing associations and co-operatives provide homes for over half a million people in Scotland. As not-for-profit organisations, they don’t just build, maintain and rent out homes; they also help their tenants by providing care and support services as well as advice and support on energy efficiency, finances, employment and more.
Our mission is to sustain and strengthen the impact our members have on people and communities across Scotland as they work to ensure everyone can live in a safe, warm and affordable home, in a thriving community.
Eden Project Communities brings people together, supporting and empowering them to make positive changes where they live, through The Big Lunch, Community Camps and a Network, which connects and supports community-minded people right across the UK.
Working with the housing sector to encourage and support community action is key to the Eden Project Communities programme, so we’re delighted to be exhibiting at CIH events in 2023.
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Our aim is simple, we want to change housing in Scotland for the better.
TIS is the leading organisation promoting and inspiring innovative tenant participation, engagement, and scrutiny practices in Scotland. We deliver independent advice, training, and support to tenants, communities, and housing organisations to work together to influence housing policy and practice.
As a national membership organisation, we represent over 240,000 homes from across our housing organisation membership community alone. TIS members share the same values of nurturing tenant participation, finding creative approaches to encourage communities and housing organisations to work together, and ensuring engagement remain high on the national agenda.
Follow TIS on Twitter - @TISScotland
E info@tis.org.uk T 0141 248 1242 W www.tis.org.uk
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Established in 1996, Arneil Johnston is a leading housing consultancy in Scotland with a wealth of experience in developing practical, innovative solutions for our clients. We are a reputable, talented and diverse team with extensive experience of all aspects of social housing planning and delivery. Our company was established with the aim of providing quality consultancy services in housing, finance and change management to the public sector in Scotland. Our Scottish focus enables us to remain responsive to a changing policy and regulatory environment.
We provide support to local and central government, Registered Social Landlords and other statutory and voluntary agencies. Over the last 28 years, we have worked with every local authority in Scotland as well as 50% of the RSL sector. We deliver services that are both business focused and socially ethical and we aim to add value to the social landlords we work for and the communities they serve.
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Housing Diversity Network is a social enterprise that supports the housing sector to provide leadership in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), address inequalities, foster work environments that attract and retain high quality staff, and strive to meet the needs all communities.
We have training and development programmes for boards, staff and customers, run the Scottish Diversity Group and have our own Diversity Network Assessment to help organisations measure progress towards their EDI ambitions.
Come to talk to us about how we can help you achieve your inclusion goals.