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Your board needs a small business owner

Your board needs a small business owner

The sector has for some time been moving towards skills based boards and bringing in people from outside the housing sector. A lot of focus…
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Andy Gambles
HDN Board Mentor Program

HDN Board Mentor Program

I recently took part in the HDN (Housing Diversity Network) board member mentoring program. As a complete newbie to the housing sector I…
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Andy Gambles
Housing Captivity

Housing Captivity

At some times of the year you can barely drive down a country road around my town without taking out a few pheasants who just decide to run…
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Andy Gambles
Housing Associations need to rethink software specialising in Housing Associations.

Housing Associations need to rethink software specialising in Housing Associations.

I have come across a number of software services that specialise in providing solutions to the housing sector. What I have discovered is…
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Andy Gambles
Housing Associations should embrace Workplace by Facebook

Housing Associations should embrace Workplace by Facebook

For the last couple of years Facebook has been working on launching an enterprise level system. Originally rumoured to be called Facebook…
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Andy Gambles
School Shoes and Board Governance

School Shoes and Board Governance

Children being sent home for not wearing the correct shoes was in the news nearly every day last week.
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Andy Gambles
Helping the Board make decisions

Helping the Board make decisions

In a couple of months I will come to the end of my first year as a board director of a UK housing association. It continues to be a very…
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Andy Gambles
Why are Housing Association’s so Inefficient?

Why are Housing Association’s so Inefficient?

After three months as a board member I had attended two board meetings, an away weekend and the NHF Board members conference. My background…
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Andy Gambles
Scotland ends Right to Buy — Comment.

Scotland ends Right to Buy — Comment.

Back in 2014 the Scottish parliament voted to scrap Right to Buy in Scotland. The legislation abolished Right to Buy in Scotland on 31 July…
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Andy Gambles
Why I Became a Housing Association Board Director

Why I Became a Housing Association Board Director

In November 2015 I joined the board of Yorkshire Coast Homes as an unpaid director. For those in the know this was a 2003 LSVT housing…
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Andy Gambles
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