Rethinking Assets
CIH SW Conference 2014
Affordable Housing - 2015 and beyond
Presented by:
Stephen Lodge
Director of Assets and Development
Guinness Hermitage July 2014
Rethinking Assets
CIH SW Conference 2014
Background
• Guinness Partnership
– 60,000 homes across England
– Care services to 10,000 customers
– More than 2,500 employees
• Guinness Hermitage
– Around 15,000 homes in the South and West of England
– 300 employees
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CIH SW Conference 2014
Where we operate
Guinness Partnership
Guinness Hermitage
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Delivering new homes
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Partnership Priorities
– Focusing on the customer – housing and care
– Growing and diversifying
– Making best use of our assets
– Developing our people
– Exploiting new technology
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Supporting our customers
• Our customers are changing
• Linking housing with care
• Refocusing the relationship – and resources
• Tenancy sustainment - Access to work, Affordable
warmth, Financial inclusion, Tenancy support
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Supporting our customers
• Aspire Awards
• Catch 25
• Active Plus (Redruth / Plymouth)
• Affordable warmth customer training
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The Future……….?
• Further welfare reforms
• Different markets and customers
• Blurring and convergence of tenures
• Sector consolidation
• Strong values and mission win through