Shortlist

Congratulations to our 2023 Affordable Housing Awards finalists!

Contractor of the year

·       Bell

·       Easy Heat Systems

·       Ecosafe Group

·       John Southworth

·       Repairs team - Lewisham Homes

·       Mears Group in partnership with Thurrock Council

·       Rainbow Restoration

·       VOR Group

·       Swarcliffe PFI - Yorkshire Housing

Homebuilder of the year - housing association/local authority

·       Development team - First Choice Homes Oldham

·       Housing delivery team - Haringey Council

·       Orbit Homes

·       Housing team - Reading Borough Council

·       Southwark construction - Southwark Council

·       Housing development and regeneration - Wandsworth Council

Homebuilder of the year – independent

·       Ecosafe Group

·       North West new build - Equans UK & Ireland

·       Riverbank View - Keepmoat and Salford City Council

·       MCI Developments

·       National Housing Group

·       Collaton - Pillar Land Securities, Coln Signature Homes and Newton & Noss Community Land Trust

·       Tawd Valley Developments

·       Vistry Group

Professional services partner of the year

·       Customer Care Simplified Software - clixifix

·       Echelon Consultancy

·       Jaywing

·       Plentific

·       Sava

·       Shakespeare Martineau

·       Voicescape

·       Social housing team - Winckworth Sherwood

Campaign of the year

·       More Than Homes - Accent Housing

·       Telling the story of All In - Eastlight Community Homes

·       Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis and the launch of the Rural Homelessness Counts Coalition - English Rural Housing Association

·       Our rents are changing behaviour change campaign - Great Places

·       Accessible Homes Week 2022 - Habinteg Housing Association

·       Silent Voices Project and Support Fund - Havebury Housing Partnership

·       Fair Foundations - Karbon Homes

·       My Life in Progress – annual report campaign 2021-22 - Progress Housing Group and Maxmedia

·       The Blunden Prize - Stonewater

Innovator of the year - housing association/local authority

Sponsored by Elliot Leigh

·       Eastlight Community Homes

·       Customer psychographic segmentation - Grand Union Housing Group

·       Housing Solutions – Ashenhurst - Kirklees Council

·       Open Market Purchase Scheme - North Lanarkshire Council

·       Information directorate - Platform Housing Group

·       CIO directorate – Riverside’s collaboration with Salesforce on digital and technology - Riverside

·       PIV Invent - Sureserve Asset Services and West of Scotland Housing Association

Innovator of the year – independent

Sponsored by Elliot Leigh

·       Team Agile - Agile Property

·       Fast Lean Smart

·       John Southworth

·       Citizens House, Lewisham - London Community Land Trust / Lewisham Citizens

·       Victoria Road Apartments, Morgan Sindall Construction - Morgan Sindall Construction

·       A Different Approach - Pillar Land Securities

·       Reach Homes

·       Zed Pods

Resident employment and training award

·       More Positive Together in Blackpool - Blackpool Coastal Housing

·       Directions Employment Service - First Choice Homes Oldham

·       Riverbank View - Keepmoat and Salford City Council

·       Key Community

·       LancWest Works - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team

·       Livin Futures - Livin Housing

·       MTVH social value and procurement team - MTVH

·       Working Roots - North Tyneside Council

The neighbourhood transformation award

·       VHE Stock Transfer - Choice Housing

·       The Old Cowlins Mill transformation project - Cormac Solutions Ltd

·       All In - Eastlight Community Homes

·       Manor Street, Braintree - Eastlight Community Homes

·       Community Centred Regeneration in Hull - Fortem

·       Burridge Gardens - Hawkins\Brown

·       Sale West regeneration - Irwell Valley Homes

·       Riverbank View - Keepmoat and Salford City Council

Homelessness project of the year

Sponsored by Together

·       My Social Housing - Bridge Housing Solutions

·       Bromley homeless support and health project - Bromley Homeless

·       Carroll Court - Haringey Council

·       Resonance Everyone In Fund - Resonance

·       Delivering a quality service to relieve homelessness in Spelthorne - Spelthorne Borough Council

·       Pre-tenancy homelessness prevention - Your Own Place

·       Hope Street - Your Place

Best older people’s landlord

·       Alpha Living

·       Brighton & Hove City Council

·       Housing 21

·       Lincolnshire Housing Partnership

·       Magenta Living

·       Sutton Housing Society

Best supported housing landlord

·       Choice Housing

·       Elliot Leigh TLC

·       IMPAKT Housing & Support

·       Magenta Living

·       Mulberry Community Project

·       North Devon Homes

·       Southdown

Recruitment or retention campaign of the year

·       Electrical Recruitment Project Inc Displaced Apprentices - Berneslai Homes

·       All In recruitment campaign - Eastlight Community Homes

·       Succeed at Eastlight - Eastlight Community Homes

·       AMIP Apprenticeship Focus - Echelon Improvement Partnerships

·       Repairs Improvement Project – recruitment and culture - Lewisham Homes

·       LHP recruitment campaign - Lincolnshire Housing Partnership

·       Odgers Berndtson Inclusive Recruitment Diagnostic - Odgers Berndtson Group

·       Switchee people team - Switchee

Excellence in community-led decision making

·       Belgrave Unity - Belgrave Neighbourhood Co-operative Housing Association

·       Choice Good Relations - Choice Housing

·       Friendship Fridays - Dovecotes Tenant Management Organisation

·       Tenant engagement and empowerment framework - Habinteg Housing Association

·       Citizens House, Lewisham - London Community Land Trust / Lewisham Citizens

·       Braintree Foyer - Salvation Army Housing Association

·       Thrive Customer Voice model - Thrive Homes

·       Tenant and Landlord Improvement Panel and Tenant Charter - Wokingham Borough Council

Financial inclusion initiative of the year

·       Choice Tenant Support Fund - Choice Housing

·       Cost of Living Project - CHS Group

·       Proactive advice service - Citizen Housing

·       Community Housing boosts its customers’ annual income by £4.1m - Community Housing

·       Hardship Fund - North Wales Housing

·       Customer Support Fund - Sovereign

·       Supporting all our customers through the cost of living crisis - Stonewater

Partnership of the year - delivering for communities

Sponsored by Unlock Net Zero

·       Blackpool Coastal Housing and Left Coast

·       Cambridgeshire Local Assistance Scheme - CHS Group, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge and District Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Rural Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Re-use and CCORRN

·       Health and housing partnership - Grand Union Housing Group, Peabody, Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and Milton Keynes City Council

·       Wheatley Court - Mount Green and Reigate & Banstead Borough Council

·       Home Stepper  - Sage Homes and Vistry Group

·       St Leger Homes of Doncaster and Doncaster Children’s Services

·       The Salus Project - The Elm Foundation, Derbyshire County Council, Amber Valley Borough Council, Bolsover District Council, Chesterfield Borough Council, High Peak Borough Council & North East Derbyshire District Council.

Partnership of the year – development

Sponsored by Unlock Net Zero

·       Cambridge Investment Partnership

·       Essex Housing and CHP

·       Lar Housing Trust and Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

·       Collaton ‘A Different Approach’ - Pillar Land Securities, Coln Signature Homes and Newton & Noss Community Land Trust

·       Cumbernauld Regeneration - Sanctuary Group and North Lanarkshire Council

·       Westminster City Council, Child Graddon Lewis and Willmott Dixon

Partnership of the year - zero carbon

Sponsored by Unlock Net Zero

·       Cosy Homes in Lancashire - Blackpool Council, Lancashire County Council, and a consortium of Lancashire Local Authorities

·       Creating Enterprise with Beattie Passive

·       Equans and Two Rivers Housing

·       Denton & Hilltop project team - Equans UK & Ireland and Newcastle City Council

·       Lune Walk –  affordable Passivhaus - South Lakes Housing, Lune Valley Community Land Trust and Lancaster City Council

·       Greener Herts - Watford Community Housing, B3 Living and Settle

·       Watmos & Surefire Partnership - Watmos Community Homes and Walsall Council

·       Zed Pods and Mid Devon District Council

Council or combined authority of the year

·       Ashfield District Council

·       Gravesham Borough Council

·       London Borough of Harrow

·       London Borough of Waltham Forest

·       Mid Devon District Council and Zed Pods

·       Royal Borough of Greenwich

·       Stevenage Borough Council

-       Stratford-on-Avon District Council

Landlord of the year

Sponsored by Crowe

·       Auxesia Homes

·       Choice Housing

·       Mace Housing Co-operative

·       Orbit

·       Southdown

·       Stockport Homes Group

·       Watmos Community Homes