Chaired by Callum Chomczuk, national director of CIH Scotland and chair of the Scottish Housing Day 2025 working group
What kick-started Scotland's community-based housing association movement and what keeps activism going today?
Back in the 1970's, women were leading and driving change in their neighbourhoods and the development of CBHA's. What were the barriers they faced in catalysing community ownership and how can local people today build on the successes to improve neighbourliness and improve their sense of community?
Chair: David Bookbinder, director, GWSF
Other speakers to be announced
It's a women's world
10:10
Kim McKee
|professor in housing & social policy, University of Stirling
Professor McKee is Director of the postgraduate Housing Studies Programme at the University of Stirling. Prior to joining Stirling, she was Director of the St Andrew's Centre for Housing Research (2014-18). Kim has researched and published widely on housing inequalities, and has a longstanding interest in community ownership of social housing in the Scottish context.
David Bookbinder
|Director, Glasgow and west of Scotland forum of housing associations
David has been at GWSF since 2014. Since coming to Scotland in 1993, he has worked at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, CIH Scotland and (in a temporary capacity) the Scottish Government. His early career included housing posts at the London Borough of Hillingdon and Age Concern England.
Maureen Cope
|community-based housing association committee member and community activist
Linda Cameron
|community-based housing association committee member and community activist
While housing is at the heart of any community, we all need more than just that. How are local people and statutory services working to improve communities, neighbourly relations and wellbeing across all of our communities?
Chair: Sue Shone, director of housing and care, Viewpoint Housing Association
More than housing
11:00
Katie Murray
|development manager, environment and place services, Keep Scotland Beautiful
Kelly Brown
|director, Places for People Scotland
Sue Shone
|Board member, CIH Scotland
Sue began working as a housing clerk with Lancaster City Council in 1992, caught the housing bug and has worked in the housing sector ever since. She has held roles with both housing associations and local government. In her free time she is an experienced volunteer and board member and is currently a board member with Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland and Kingdom Support and Care and is working with her local community council to adopt a phone box for use as a community library. She also likes chocolate. A lot.
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Communities don't exist in isolation but respond to the political and economic context of their environment. What is impacting local communities across Scotland and what must come next?
Chair: Euan Leitch, chief executive, SURF
Delivering on national priorities through local services
12:30
Neil Young
|youth team leader, St Pauls Youth Forum
Colleen Rowan
|policy and research lead, GWSF
Euan Leitch
|Chief executive, SURF - Scotland's Regeneration Forum
Euan Leitch joined SURF as Chief Executive in May 2021 following 8 years with the Built Environment Forum Scotland. At BEFS Euan delivered a strong programme of strategic policy work that included promoting and fostering the productive links between the built environment and community regeneration, diversity, resilience and the maintenance agenda. A priority for Euan is ensuring that communities experiencing the consequences of deprivation are actively involved in responding to the climate emergency. SURF has been highlighting good regeneration practice for 25 years and therefore has a wealth of examples to draw from. Euan is a trustee of Under One Roof.
Laurie McFarlane
|Co-director, Future Economy Scotland
Laurie is a visiting fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Before this, he was a senior economist at the New Economics Foundation. Laurie is also the co-author of the critically acclaimed book ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’.
At a time when people are embracing tech to work remotely, how can communities and local people repurpose our robotic revolution to bring people together?
Chair: Olivia Lindsay, depute CEO, Housing Options Scotland
Tech for togetherness
13:25
Steph Elliot
|Technology enabled health in care lead, SFHA
Speaker information coming soon...
Steph Sutherland
|Head of business development, Blackwood Homes and Care
Olivia Lindsay
|Depute CEO, Housing Options Scotland
