NHF Board Excellence in Housing 2024

1 - 2 February 2024
Hilton Manchester
Deansgate
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What’s on this year?
Maggie Galliers CBE,
Chair, National Housing Federation
“In challenging times, we cannot miss the opportunity to
meet and share experiences as board members. The team
at the NHF has done a fantastic job of ensuring we make
the most of being back in person. I’m excited to explore
with colleagues how we can achieve the level of excellence
needed to support our organisations and residents.”
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Peer-to-peer roundtables
Delegate-led sessions to share your thoughts,
concerns and successes.
Ask the expert
Less formal conversations and question times
with the Regulator, Ombudsman and members.
Chairs talking
Roundtables exclusively for chairs to address
key issues.
Board Excellence 101
Take your team from good to excellent with
these essential updates from the NHF.
Fringe events
Networking breakfasts, lunches, and meet-ups.
Find your peer group at this event.
More networking and interactive
sessions
Opportunities to connect with your peers and
share stories and best practice.
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Thursday, 1 February
Morning
Afternoon
08:30 Registration opens
Welcome breakfast at the NHF stand for new board members.
MAIN STAGE: Getting to grips with the political landscape
As a general election draws nearer, hear analysis from our political experts
on what the major parties’ manifestos could mean for the sector and what to
expect from government before an election.
MAIN STAGE: How can we achieve sector-wide engagement
with politics?
· The long-term plan for housing – what are our asks to the new government?
· Boards as political ambassadors for their organisations – communicating
the value of the sector.
· Empowering housing associations to become trusted partners to local
authorities.
Breakout sessions
Demystifying artificial
intelligence.
(Chairs only)
Building strong
relationships
between chairs and
CEOs.
Networking
lunch and
exhibition.
Recovering from
a governance
downgrade.
New chairs
networking
lunch.
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Breakout sessions
How well do you know
your residents? Learning
from supported housing
providers.
Ask the Expert: In
conversation with
The Regulator of
Social Housing.
Maintaining
affordability while
guaranteeing
financial stability.
Keeping
decarbonisation on
the agenda.
How are we
adjusting to the
new building and fire
safety regulatory
environment?
Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion: a
vision for the future.
MAIN STAGE: Partnering with residents to create positive change
• Identifying goals for your resident engagement strategy – what do you want
this relationship to look like in 10 years’ time?
• Incorporating customer voice into every decision made by the board and
ensuring you hear from those who are hard to reach.
• Open communication with customers as a horizon-scanning tool.
MAIN STAGE: How to solve the housing crisis
• A new vision for affordable housing: improving the health of the nation and
its finances.
• Agenda reset: addressing the social, economic and fiscal problems associated
with the hidden housing crisis.
• Finding the balance between essential investment in existing homes and
funding development pipelines.
Conference dinner
Your opportunity to network with colleagues old and new at a sit
down dinner. Given the popularity of this dinner, please register your
attendance at the time of booking your conference ticket.
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Friday, 2 February
Morning
Afternoon
Rent settlement update
MAIN STAGE: The economic and financial big picture
• How is the UK’s economic environment likely to evolve over the next year?
• The effects of this broader environment on the health of the sector’s
finances.
• Managing poor financial performance and other consequences of higher
economic risk.
MAIN STAGE: What does a new regulatory environment mean for
existing governance structures?
• What do boards need to know in order to navigate this new era of social
housing regulation?
• Ensuring you have the right structures in place to manage this evolving
environment.
• Maintaining adequate oversight of your organisation and its data.
Breakout sessions
Ask the Expert:
In conversations
with the Housing
Ombudsman.
(Chairs only)
Managing
underperforming
board members.
Senior Independent Directors
(SIDs) networking breakfast
Rethinking models of
housing and healthcare
collaboration.
Breakout sessions
Encouraging equity in
social housing.
What do
residents want
from their boards?
Championing digital
transformation from the
boardroom.
MAIN STAGE: Making long-term commitments to development and
place-making
• Building relationships with local authorities to meet increasing housing need
across the country.
• Playing an active role in local development projects.
• Balancing high density housing with community building – creating homes
and communities in which people want to live.
MAIN STAGE: Adapting to thrive: the boardroom in a fast-changing world
• Ensuring the diversity of skills required to best deal with the changing nature
of the role.
• Inclusion in practice – promotive inclusive ways of working and collaborative
culture.
• The power and responsibility of chairs to drive meaningful inclusion.
Networking lunch and exhibition
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Board Mentoring
We are offering new board members the opportunity of meeting with an
experienced board member or chair from the sector for a 30-minute chat
about your goals and the challenges you face.
Learn more on our website
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Conference chairs:
Pamela Leonce,
Chair, Inquilab
Wayne Morris,
Chair, Abri
Key speakers
Lord Victor Adebowale,
Chair, NHS
Confederation
Rabina Khan, Writer
and former Cabinet
Member for Housing,
Tower Hamlets Council
Graham Russell, Chair,
Brunelcare
Trevor Williams,
Economist
Roli Barker,
Incoming Chair, Jigsaw
Kathleen Harris-
Leighton, Resident Board
Member, PA Housing
Matthew Harrison, Chair,
South Yorkshire Housing
Association
Jane Everton, Board
Member, Newlon Housing
Trust
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Terrie Alafat, Chair,
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