The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) currently facilitates a North East Policy Network Group – which essentially is a group of North East members from Housing Associations and Local Authorities which provide members with the opportunity to meet up quarterly in different member venues across the North East Region to share good practice, discuss policy developments; what they mean for the region and hear from other organisations around their challenges and approaches adopted to mitigate impact on the business and their tenants.

Attendance of the group have included Managers and Officers from  Welfare Reform teams, Financial inclusion teams, Income management, Policy, Strategy and Research, Business & Performance Improvement and other similar roles.

The meetings are held across the North East at different member offices, and are usually meet for two hours each quarter, and some meetings have included external speakers, the members inform the NHC of topics to be covered and speakers to invite.