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.
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.
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, 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.
For more than 30 years, ARK Consultancy has been driven by a strong desire to see organisations perform and operate at their highest potential. Why? Because this drive leads to improved homes, stronger communities, and ultimately, better lives. We are a leading management and technical consultancy, working across the UK with specialised expertise in affordable housing, collaborating with local authorities, government bodies, and the charitable sector. Our commitment to excellence positions us as a trusted partner in driving positive change and delivering impactful results in the affordable housing sector.
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.
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.
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.
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
As the largest provider of housing in West Norfolk, our goal is to provide quality homes and excellent services for current and future generations, so that the people and communities of West Norfolk can thrive. We are achieving this in a number of ways; one of them being by providing homes to meet local needs.
Today we have around 7,000 homes and we are developing more affordable properties every year. We’re also improving our existing homes – we want to create homes, communities, and local spaces which we can all be proud of.
Our vision is for Golding to be efficient, local, visible and listening, providing sustainable homes and communities.
Today we own and manage just over 8,500 properties and provide homes to more than 29,000 people across Kent. We're committed to providing excellent customer service and quality, safe homes for social, affordable and market rent, shared ownership and outright sale. All our profits are invested back into improving our homes and services and building more new homes.
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.
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.
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.
Lovell is a partnership housing expert and a leading provider of innovative residential construction and regeneration developments across England, Scotland and Wales.
Lovell is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Morgan Sindall Group, which provides enormous strength and stability and cross-sector expertise, as well as offering us a level of financial resilience that enables us to find solutions where others see only problems.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
We are one of the largest housing associations in the North of England, managing over 36,000 homes across the North of England
We are a non-profit organisation, meaning any money we make is invested back into the company for the benefit of our residents and local communities.
In addition to providing quality homes to rent, we also build and manage homes for sale through the Shared Ownership scheme. Additionally we provide retirement living and Housing with Care.
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.