By becoming a CIH partner, your organisation will be joining forces with us to shape the future leaders of the housing sector.
By investing in the continuing professional development of your staff, we can provide a better service for tenants, residents and communities in an increasingly complex environment.
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If you'd like to get in touch and find out more information about our partnership opportunities, you can email us at partnerships@cih.org or you call us 024 7685 1700.
Our partners
Accent Group
We are Accent Housing, and we have been providing homes and services across the country since 1966.
Our 20,700 Accent homes spread across England are home to almost 42,000 customers and their families.
Everyone has the right to a safe, secure and warm place to call home but that’s not a reality everyone has. As a UK housing association, our purpose is to change that by providing homes where they are most in need and helping to tackle the housing shortage by building new homes.
Aico
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. Aico have expanded its Connected Home offering through HomeLINK. HomeLINK are a multi-award-winning high-tech software team within Aico that leverages cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.
Related links
- Aico launch new and improved HomeLINK App for Residents
- Case Study: The Wee House Co
- Blog: Landlord Fire Safety
- GreenSquareAccord implement the SmartLINK Gateway to enhance resident safety within sheltered housing
- SmartLINK Gateway and HomeLINK Dashboard Save Lives in Tiverton
- Innovation of multi-sensor alarms continues with new product range
Alertacall
“We bring together ingenious technology and passionate people to create the world’s best contact services which improve wellbeing, protect life and detect changing needs.”
Alertacall pioneers the principle that by increasing contact with people, in a way the customer controls, you can better understand their changing needs, make better decisions and improve their lives.
It seeks to do this by improving access to daily contact with accolade winning services that combine ingenious technology, like the OKEachDay Platform, with passionate people who are continually invested in and developed.
Alertacall also seeks to be a 100 Year Company striving to exist and thrive for a century or more. This ambition means that decisions are made on the basis they should have real and lasting value for the organisation, its people and its customers.
Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council is Europe’s largest local authority serving over one million customers, we are also the largest local authority registered provider in England with a total of 60,191 units of social housing. In an average year the Council undertakes around 5,500 homelessness assessments and we receive nearly 500 applications to join our housing register each week. Our vision is to ensure people can access the right home, in the right place, at the right time, therefore we are committed to working hard to ensure a strong supply of genuinely affordable housing so that our citizens can access and sustain the right home for them. We are also committed to enhancing our neighbourhoods and improving the quality of housing in our district.
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Bromford
Bromford are a housing association – one of the biggest in the country.
They have more than 46,000 homes spread across central and south west England. Bromford believe in providing warm, safe and secure homes. But ultimately, they are a people business. Not only do they care about the 110,000 people who live in their homes, they want them to thrive.
Carpetright
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. Our range of solutions across all flooring types for voids, retrofits, financial inclusion/support and beyond enable our partners to provide flooring for their tenants wherever they are. Our network of over 280 locations nationwide enables us to support your needs wherever you are in the country, including supply only and supply & fit solutions with our Fitting Arrangement Service. Beyond flooring we also offer bedding (frames and mattresses) and window coverings (curtains and blinds) for all budgets & requirements.
Duality Group
Duality Group is a holding company set up to buy and build a group focused in the installation and maintenance of energy solutions for the residential and commercial sector. Energy solutions will include insulation, boilers, smart meters, batteries and other products that improve the energy efficiency of a building and/or reduce energy consumption.
Flagship Housing Group
We’re Flagship Group, the largest housing provider in the East of England. We build homes, let, improve, and maintain them. We don’t simply want to make a difference to our tenants and their communities – we want to solve the housing crisis too.
We provide 32,000 homes to more than 76,000 customers across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Our group has three housing associations – Victory, Newtide and Samphire. It also includes Flagship Services, which maintains and improves our homes, neighbourhoods and green spaces. The group has a house-building arm, Flagship Homes, heating company Gasway and homelessness charity, Hopestead.
ForHousing
We own and manage more than 24,000 homes across the North West. Everything we do aims to positively impact the lives of our social housing tenants and deliver on what matters to them and their communities.
By listening to tenants and keeping them at the heart of all we do, we provide safe, well maintained homes and deliver customer focused, equitable and efficient services. And we always want to do better.
We are part of the ForViva Group along with Liberty and ForLiving
Housing Ombudsman Service
Hull City Council
Hull City Council is a unitary authority in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. We are a geographically compact area, almost exclusively urban. Our city is a major European port, and we are well known for our energy industries including renewables such as wind power. Our population is over a quarter of a million.
Hull has a large rental sector (around half of homes in the city), and Hull City Council has a stock of around 23,500, accounting for around 1 in every 5 homes in the city.
Karbon Homes
Since our formation in 2017, we’ve focused on delivering our three strategic aims - to provide as many good quality homes as we can, to deliver excellent service to our customers, and to shape strong, sustainable places for our communities.
Our footprint covers the North East of England and Yorkshire, with almost 30,000 homes across diverse communities, all facing different opportunities and challenges.
LiveWest
At LiveWest, we believe in a home for everyone. We own and manage over 38,000 homes across the South West, from Cornwall to Gloucestershire. We have ambitious plans to invest more than £1bn in the South West economy and to build 6,000 new homes in the region over the next five years.
Related links
- Professionalism blog written by Emma Withnell, learning and talent advisor at LiveWest
- Celebrating our colleagues and customers with hidden disabilities
- Nearly 50 affordable homes completed at new eco site in Bristol
- Sustainable development in Exeter set to complete this summer
- Living and leading in interesting times - blog by Jane Pightling
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
NIHE care for around 85,000 homes across Northern Ireland and we work with partners in local government, councils and housing associations to deliver new-build accommodation of excellent, modern standard. We assist with housing adaptations for those living with a disability and fund community impact projects across Northern Ireland to improve local cohesion and foster vibrant communities.
Ongo
Ongo is a partnership designed to give something back to communities. Its purpose is to look for new opportunities which will ultimately help the people of North Lincolnshire. All profit made through the partnership is reinvested back into the organisation to help build new homes and invest further in community initiatives.
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Orbit
Orbit manage around 45,000 affordable homes in in the Midlands, East and South East of England, and build around 1,500 new affordable homes every year. Today, over 100,000 people live in an Orbit home and our aim is to ensure the homes we provide and the places we create are good quality, affordable and safe.
Related links
- Work starts on site at Orbit’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator
- Orbit secures £1.4m Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 1 funding
- New report highlights the impact of retrofit programmes on social housing customers
- New research project examines Orbit’s use of digital health services
- Spotlight on Orbit’s Stratford-upon-Avon decarbonisation project
Platform Housing Group
Platform Housing Group owns and manages 46,000 homes across the Midlands, with a portfolio that includes social and affordable rent and shared ownership houses. The group has G1 governance and V1 financial viability ratings from the Regulator of Social Housing and an A+ rating from Standard and Poor’s and Fitch.
Redditch Borough Council
Redditch Borough Council Housing Team have recently gone through a large-scale transformation of their Housing Service. We aim to be one of the best and most consistent providers of good quality affordable housing in Worcestershire. Our links with CIH will help us to ensure colleagues are well trained and competent in the role they are undertaking, which in turn will drive the quality of our services up and provide our customers with the best experience possible. This new partnership with CIH will help us meet our strategic aim of making a difference to those who use our services.
Solihull Community Housing
Solihull Community Housing is the ALMO set up in April 2004 to run the housing service on behalf of Solihull Council. This means that with Solihull Council own the properties but housing services are delivered by us. We are run by a Board made up of three tenants, four councillors and three independent people chosen for their specialist skills and experience.
Sovereign
We are a leading housing association, striving to provide quality, affordable homes in happy, successful places. We have deep roots in the south of England, with almost 60,000 homes focused in a core area covering Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, the West of England and the Isle of Wight.
St. Leger Homes of Doncaster
YMCA Wearside
YMCA Wearside Ltd is a leading children and young people’s charity. We work in Sunderland and County Durham, supporting some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people and adults. Our work includes working with homeless young people and adults, helping young offenders turn from crime and giving young people and adults the skills to reach their potential.
South Essex Homes
South Essex Homes was formed in 2005, as the Arm’s Length Management Organisation for Southend-on-Sea City Council, to manage and maintain their stock of around 6000 homes.
We strive to work smarter together to deliver value to the Council, empower residents and staff, manage decent quality homes, provide excellent services and engage with the communities we serve. At all times, we endeavour to demonstrate to our company values of Supportive, Respectful, Trustworthy and Honest.
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