Supporting you to create better homes and places
We’ve launched our ambitious new corporate plan – it sets out how we’ll support you over the next three years to help you create better homes and places.
Created by our full staff team alongside our member-led Board, our Corporate Plan has been shaped by our members – through engagement activity, shared future challenges and our perceptions research – here is a deeper dive into our plans over the next three years.
At the heart of our Corporate Plan is your unrivalled member experience. We will continue to build strong relationships with our members, delivering solutions which fit your evolving needs and ensuring excellence in the development and delivery of our services.
Our unique membership of councils, housing associations, ALMOs and combined authorities means we can bring together professionals across the housing sector to help create better homes and places. We will create a community of support, networking and industry insight across the membership.
We will build on our existing and effective partnerships, working with those who share our members’ interests to maximise reach and impact (recognising the integral link between housing, health and other sectors), whilst ensuring best use of our own resources.
We will use collaboration opportunities to expand our range of solutions and access others’ expertise, driving better choice and value for members and driving income for reinvestment in the NHC and Consortium Procurement. We will work with other consortia strategically to use our collective power to aggregate demand, stimulate local supply chains, build skills and expertise and offer regional solutions. We will strengthen relationships with our key supply partners, utilising their expertise in the support of our members’ needs – we aim to complement rather than duplicate.
We will influence on the priorities that are shared by you – meeting the Net Zero challenge and putting housing at the heart of a rebalanced country. Through our influencing activities we will secure change using a robust evidence base on the issues that matter to members, we will strengthen our relationships with decision makers and policy shapers locally, regionally and nationally, ensuring the people who count respond to our core policy objectives.
Through engagement with members we will demonstrate our focus on members’ key agenda items outside of influencing priorities. While we are committed to our influencing priorities shared by our northern members – net zero and rebalancing – our wider engagement activity reflects the diverse and wide-ranging issues our members face. Through our events and engagement programme we will support you to navigate challenges, share best practice and deliver excellent services.
We will continue to offer a rewarding, supportive place to work where we invest in people, they can be themselves and fulfil their potential – an organisation we are all proud to be a part of. We will build on our organisational structure and support framework that enables our staff team to thrive, act autonomously, competently, and become subject matter experts in their field.
We will ensure that Sustainability, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Wellbeing are considered at the heart of everything we do as an organisation – informing and supporting our members and the way we work internally.
Over the next three years our new plan will guide the delivery of our mission: to bring together housing in the North to develop insight, influence and solutions for our members. We’d love to receive member feedback email kate.maughan@northern-consortium.org.uk.
