Members List
Circle Voluntary Housing Association
Circle Voluntary Housing Association (VHA) was set up in 2003 and is a leading provider of social and affordable housing in Ireland. Circle’s vision is to make a real difference by delivering quality homes and innovative integrated housing solutions to individuals and families in Ireland. Circle works together with local authorities, state agencies, developers and funders to deliver new-build social and affordable housing solutions. Circle has delivered over 2,500 homes. They deliver services to over 5,000 people and help create thriving communities.
Connswater Homes
Connswater Housing, a Belfast-based housing association, owns and manages over 7,000 properties. Renowned for its commitment to community well-being, Connswater Housing fosters a sense of belonging and empowerment among its residents. With a holistic approach, it offers not just housing but also support services, ensuring residents thrive in their environments. Their tireless efforts in maintaining properties and fostering sustainable communities reflect a deep-rooted ethos of care and inclusivity. Connswater Housing stands as a beacon of reliability and compassion, enriching lives and transforming neighbourhoods across Belfast.
Elim Housing Association
From humble beginnings in 1963, when a group of like-minded individuals came together, with a passion to address the undersupply of social housing, Elim have grown to an organisation that supports over 300 individuals across our supported housing schemes each year.
We have experienced many changes over the last 60 years and still continue to evolve and adapt to support some of the most vulnerable individuals. To commemorate our 60th anniversary we are pleased to be able to share a timeline of Elim’s history charting our major milestones which have played a big part in shaping who we are today which is available to read here.
60 years on, we remain true to our values, continuing our mission to increase social housing supply, and are proud to add value in the areas we serve, delivering homes and specialist services that may be otherwise overlooked, due to scale or complexity, by other housing providers.
Golden Lane Housing Association
Golden Lane Housing works with people with a learning disability or autistic people to provide supported housing around which they can build their lives. We were established as an independent registered charity by Mencap in 1998 to help tackle the immense challenges that people with a learning disability face in finding a home.
Since our inception we have invested £122.8 million transforming the lives of over 2,000 people with a wide range of needs in more than 1,200 properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each year we house over 100 people and continually find innovative ways to provide suitable and much needed housing solutions for people with a learning disability or autistic people.
Grand Union Housing Group
We’ve been in business for almost 30 years and provide nearly 13,000 homes for more than 29,000 people across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire. We’re a £92 million turnover social housing business with almost 400 staff.
Our mission is more homes, stronger communities, better lives. We build affordable homes, provide personal support, and help people to learn, work and be healthy.
We’re a financially stable and innovative not-for-profit organisation that believes in partnership and collaboration. We plan to build over 1,500 more new homes over the next five years to play our part in ending the housing crisis.
Habinteg Housing Association
Habinteg Housing Association is a registered social housing provider with 50 years’ experience building and promoting accessible homes and communities. We own and manage more than 3300 homes and we operate in 86 local authorities across England and Wales.
Our training and consultancy experts, at the Centre for Accessible Environments, are the leading authority on inclusive design, assisting clients to create and manage built environments
We believe that having an accessible home in an inclusive setting can transform the lives of disabled people and those around them. We want communities to include disabled people, offering places to live that meet their needs and provide the highest levels of independence, choice and control over their daily lives.
Our mission is to champion inclusion by providing and promoting accessible homes and neighbourhoods that welcome and include everyone.
Hyde Housing
Hyde Housing was established in 1967 with one aim: to help people excluded from the mainstream housing market by providing decent, affordable homes and managing them properly. Since then, we have grown and adapted to meet the unprecedented challenges of housing in the UK, but our social purpose remains firmly at the heart of everything we do. Hyde’s objectives are to deliver quality services, increase capacity and build more homes. Although value for money (VFM) is a part of everything we do, ‘increasing capacity’ helps us to focus on improving efficiency and maximising income and asset value to allow us to produce the greatest social value. Social value is delivered by providing new housing to meet chronic shortages, setting rents below market levels and providing added value services such as helping residents sustain their tenancies.
Islington & Shoreditch HA
Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association (ISHA) is a community and neighbourhood-based housing association managing and developing quality affordable housing for people in North and East London, and building more homes in Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. We are a major provider of truly affordable housing in North London, with over 2,500 homes.
Local Space Housing
Originally formed by the London Borough of Newham as an innovative and independent vehicle for the acquisition and refurbishment of temporary accommodation; we work in nine local authority areas across London and Essex. We continue to acquire and refurbish properties and we also offer intermediate rented homes for local key workers.
We provide safe, secure, good quality homes for those who need them most. We help local authorities by offering an alternative to the poor quality, expensive private sector accommodation often used for temporary accommodation. During our growth period commencing in 2016 we partnered with Newham Council to purchase 800 new homes. The remaining 76 properties were completed in 2021.
Our customers are often families and individuals who have needs other than just housing. To help them to maintain their tenancies successfully we want to ensure that they can easily access all the support they need. We will assess the value of forging new partnerships with other services which work alongside housing such as health, care, support and education because we recognise that our resources are likely to be more effective when they are joined up.
Mount Green Housing Association
For 60 years people have come to Mount Green with one primary need – a place to call home. We have been meeting people’s housing needs since our inception in 1962.
As an independent housing association based in Leatherhead, we currently have around 1600 properties that we own and manage mainly within the communities of Surrey and North Sussex. Our role is to offer a range of affordable, good quality accommodation for local people to rent or part buy/part rent. We develop and build properties whilst striving to adapt, maintain and improve residents’ homes and neighbourhoods with the services we provide.
Sovereign Network Group
SNG (Sovereign Network Group) was formed in October 2023 through the merger of Sovereign and Network Homes. Our purpose is to provide good, affordable homes: the foundation for a better life, and our vision is thriving communities, over generations. We provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across the South of England, including London, as well as aiming to create thousands of new affordable homes every year. Everything we earn, we reinvest so that our customers – now and in the future – have a sustainable home in a thriving community.
Newlon Housing Trust
Newlon Housing Trust is a charitable housing association founded in Hackney in 1968 to provide decent and affordable homes for local people. Today we provide more than 7,000 homes across north and east London and we remain as committed as we were in 1968 to supporting the needs of one of the UK’s most diverse communities. The Trust is the parent company of the Newlon Group, which includes our partner organisations Outward, Newlon Fusion and Access Homes.
North Star Housing Group
North Star Housing Group was formed in 2006, and is the parent company to Endeavour and Teesdale Housing Associations. Endeavour owns or manages around 2,000 properties across the North East, the bulk of its stock being in the urban areas of the Tees Valley. Teesdale owns around 900 homes in the rural area around Barnard Castle. Know as an organisation that ‘punches above its weight’, we work hard to provide flexible, innovative and tailored services to a diverse client group.
Peabody
Peabody believes that having a safe, well-maintained and affordable home is the foundation of positive health, happiness and well-being. As a not-for-profit housing association, we work with residents and customers to help them live their lives to the full. From inclusive communities to opportunities to grow, and support when it’s needed. We work closely with partners and stakeholders to bring together different views, skills and ideas. So we can deliver what matters to our residents.
Poplar HARCA
Poplar HARCA is an award-winning housing and regeneration community association in east London. Today, we own and manage over 10,000 homes and, with partners, we are leading a £2.5bn place-shaping programme including new homes, education, healthcare, faith buildings, business and community spaces.
We invest around £4m each year in community regeneration. That means helping people into work and training, providing state of the art creative spaces for young people, initiatives to improve health and wellbeing, events, networking and affordable workspace.
We have strong and enduring partnerships with like-minded people and organisations. They support our ambitions and help us achieve so much more than we could alone.
We are a proud reflection of our east London community, and over a third of our 350 employees live locally.
Progress Housing Group
Progress Housing Group is committed to providing high quality housing and related services to communities throughout the UK. Progress Housing Group is the parent company of New Progress Housing Association, Progress Care Housing Association and New Fylde Housing. The Group owns and manages over 9,500 homes across the UK and has assets worth over £350m. The Group’s vision is to be the housing provider of choice. Its head office is in Leyland, Lancashire.
Saffron Housing
Saffron Housing Trust was created in May 2004 when 4,345 properties were transferred from South Norfolk Council. Today, we are a housing association with over 6,600 homes in Norfolk, Suffolk and across East Anglia. Saffron is a parent company with 3 non-charitable subsidiary companies, Crocus Homes Limited (Crocus), Saffron Housing Finance plc and Crimson Development Homes Limited.
Tuath Housing
Dublin-based Tuath Housing has rapidly grown since letting its first homes in late 2006 and now has over 11,000 properties nationwide providing homes to over 30,000 tenants. Tuath is governed by a Board of Directors with a broad range of business skills and commitment to social outcomes required to run a growing AHB.
We employ more than 200 staff across four regional offices who are overseen by an experienced management team with skills in tenancy management, project management, financial management, human resources, legal and communications.
We are an award-winning housing provider and are members of the Irish Council for Social Housing, the Housing Alliance, and the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Wandle Housing Association
The Merton Family Housing Trust, Wandle’s original name, was formed in 1967 by a group of local people who were concerned about homelessness. They felt that it was possible to do something practical about it. They had a simple aim: “to provide homes for homeless families, regardless of colour, language, race, or creed.”
50 years on, we face the greatest housing crisis since the end of the Second World War and Wandle is doing its bit to build the homes south Londoners need.
We continue to invest in the communities in which we were founded, supporting local organisation and encouraging residents to realise their full potential.
We have grown into an organisation with over 7,000 homes across nine south London boroughs providing homes for rent (social and affordable), shared ownership, outright sale, and supported housing. We also have a small portfolio of commercial properties and garages.
Wheatley Group
Wheatley Group was the UK’s largest builder of social rented homes four years in a row, it is also one of the country’s best-accredited organisations. The Group’s largest subsidiary, Wheatley Homes Glasgow, was named by the European Foundation of Quality Management as one of only three winners (from its 30,000 strong membership) of the 2017 Global Excellence Award – and both Investors in People’s UK’s Platinum Employer and Apprentice Employer of the year. Wheatley was also named in 2018 as the Best Development Team at the prestigious Inside Housing Awards.
Wheatley is also one of Scotland’s leading care providers and largest property management businesses and offers an award-winning range of wraparound services aimed at “Making Homes and Lives Better” for over 210,000 customers across 19 local authority areas in Scotland.
Over the past decade, Wheatley’s Registered Social Landlords have created no fewer than 11,000 jobs and 2000 training places as they seek, with partners, to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion that many of its customers still experience.