22 Feb 2025

All-Ireland Housing Awards 2025 winners announced

The winners of the All-Ireland Housing Awards have been announced at a special ceremony held at the Titanic Museum in Belfast on Friday 21 February 2025.

The All-Ireland Housing Awards recognise the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across the sector. This year’s awards received a total of 83 nominations across 12 categories, including best housing development, excellence in housing innovation, and housing professional of the year.

The 2025 All-Ireland award categories and winners are:
Best housing development
  • Dunineany View, Ballycastle by Apex Housing Association
Excellence in communication
  • Keeping Clanmil homes safe and comfortable: Condensation, damp and mould information campaign by Clanmil Housing.
Excellence in housing innovation
  • Boxing classes are a big hit for Clanmil customers, Clanmil Housing Association
Working in partnership
  • Housing and domestic abuse: an immersive training course by Housing Rights in partnership with North Down and Ards Women's Aid
Learner of the year
  • Emma Thompson, Choice Housing
Housing professional of the year

We are delighted to have two winners this year: 

  • Lily Winton, Ark Housing
  • Grainne Robinson, Woven Housing Association
Community champions
  • Empowering Communities to thrive, flourish and succeed by Woven Housing Association
Striving for sustainability
  • Improving warmth and wellbeing at Cardy Rock Court by Cooperative Housing Ireland
Beyond housing
  • Radius Tenant Engagement Team by Radius Housing
Professionalism in the workplace

We are delighted to have two winners this year:

  • A tailored approach to employee development by Choice Housing
  • Housing Workforce Development Team by Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Housing hero (tenant award)
  • Elishia Mullan, Clanmil Housing Association

All shortlisted entries for the All-Ireland Housing Awards have also been included in our 2025 Good Practice Compendium, a core learning document full of inspiration, ideas, and innovation to help everyone across the sector create a future where everyone has a place to call home.

For the first time ever, the All-Ireland Housing Awards Good Practice Compendium is available directly on the CIH website in a fully accessible format. Previously published as a PDF document, and therefore less accessible and creating higher CO2 emissions, the content is now more easily accessible to all and with a lighter carbon footprint.

Commenting on the 2025 award winners CIH Northern Ireland national director, Justin Cartwright and CIH Ireland director, Caroline Moloney said:

“We have been inspired and motivated by the incredible projects, the collaborative endeavour and the dedicated professionalism seen across all of the nominees in this year's awards.

Our congratulations to all of this year's winners and to all our nominees. The work that you do - which we are extremely proud to acknowledge and promote in our Good Practice Compendium - shows in the most profound way how housing professionals make a difference - a difference to the tenants and communities that we serve across Ireland and Northern Ireland.”