Our Group CEO Mathew Baxter presented at the National Housing Federation’s National Smaller Housing Associations Conference and Exhibition at the Business Design Centre in London on 30^th September.

He spoke in a session entitled “Creating the Critical Mass for a Strategic Maintenance Procurement” alongside Geoff Parkinson, director of procurement at Fortem.

Other speakers at the event included Professor Trevor Williams, Chairman, Institute of Economic Affairs, Shadow Monetary Policy Committee; Piers Williamson, The Housing Finance Corporation and Lord Deben, Climate Change Committee.

Echelon and Fortem sponsored the two-day Smaller Housing Associations Conference which examined a mix of strategic and practical content, tailored to smaller housing associations

Mathew’s presentation, which focuses on how two smaller housing associations joined together to create a strategic housing maintenance and investment procurement, is able to view here.

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