www.ahintranet.org.uk/teamtalkEdition 71 - February 2016
Our first AmicusHorizon Diversity Week took place (see page 6 and 7)
It was a huge honour for me to be appointed
Deputy Chair of the g15.
The g15 are a group representing the biggest and
most influential housing associations in London and
the South East.
Collectively the g15 house 1 in 10 Londoners and
develop a quarter of all new homes built in London
each year.
They own and manage 550,000 homes, build
11,000 homes each year and have a development
pipeline of 93,000 homes.
I’ll serve as Deputy Chair until September 2017 after
which I’ll become Chair for two years.
The timing is really good as we expect to have
legally completed our partnership with Viridian
and Southwark and London Diocesan Housing
Association (SLDHA) by this autumn.
It’ll be a fantastic to bring the extra influence of the
g15 chairship to our new combined organisation.
And there has never been a more important time to
increase our influence. There’ll be a new London
Mayor in post this May and the Government
are offering £4billion of funding to build Shared
Ownership homes.
We want to ensure we’re well placed to take
advantage of these opportunities.
Viridian update
I’m pleased to confirm the Viridian partnership talks
are going well. Board approval of the business case
is now likely to be in March rather than February
to ensure there’s enough time for both Boards to
spend time together before sign off.