WISH Midlands: Summer Social, Hot Topics

WISH Midlands Networking Event in partnership with HDN

Summer Social: Hot Topics

Date: Thursday 16th May

Time: 5-8pm

Venue: Theatrix Birmingham, 130 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 3AP

Kindly sponsored by RSK and Bevan Brittan

We are excited to host our Summer Social on Thursday, the 16th of May, for a fun evening of drinks, networking, and light learning! We will be joined by guest speakers from Bevan Brittan LLP, RSK Group, and Housing Diversity Network as we delve into our hot topics - Regulation/Governance, Sustainability, and Championing EDI. 

We can't wait to see you there!

Our Speakers

Chloe Tilford HDN- talking ED&I  - Senior Consultant 

Chloe manages the training and consultancy services for HDN - she will help you scope out what your organisation would benefit from, identify who from our network of associates would be best to support you, and enjoys getting stuck into some of the projects and training herself. She is often out and about - meeting with members, at conferences and EDI-related events, and seeking out new learning opportunities to inform her work. After a very varied pre-housing career (including roles in finance, non-profit, high-end retail, event management and project management), Chloe wanted to leave the private sector and do something more connected with making a positive change. Chloe started her housing sector journey in transformation project management, then took the opportunity to join HDN in 2022. She is passionate about everyone having a fair chance to thrive in life and dismantling systems of oppression that prevent it. Outside of work she can mostly be found smothering her cat or doing various art/craft projects.

Sarah Greenhalgh - Bevan Brittan - Partner - covering regulation and governance

I specialise in providing strategic support and corporate governance advice to registered providers of social housing.

My work includes mergers, corporate re-structures, new registrations, collaborations and joint ventures, the set-up of diversified structures (including for development), strategic support to boards, charity vires, regulatory advice, charitable conversions, company secretarial support and advice around governance best practice.

Just some of Sarah's career highlights

• Leads the Bevan Brittan relationship with the Regulator of Social Housing as one of its panel firms

• Member of the Advisory Board of the new National Housing Federation Code of Governance (2020)
• Implemented large-scale corporate structure reviews for ForHousing, GreenSquareAccord, and Abri
• Advised Stoke-on-Trent Council on the establishment of a new registered provider of social housing subsidiary for the delivery of regeneration schemes
• Aided the re-structuring and consolidating of group structures utilising the transfer of engagements and amalgamation processes (including for Peabody, Catalyst and Abri)
• Advised on a variety of collaborations between housing associations, charities, developers and local authorities
• Implemented networks for Senior Independent Directors and Committee Chairs to enable peer the sharing of ideas and experience within the housing sector
• Supported local authorities and private registered providers with regulatory engagement including the use of the Regulator of Social Housing's statutory powers and the implications of the upcoming Social Housing (Regulation) Bill