Viridian's MoveMaker makes it really, really easy for social housing tenants to swap their homes. It is a mobile app and website that connects people who want to move home - but only if there is a mutual interest. No longer will someone have to send out endless messages to people who have zero interest in their property. It also uses open data to help people make informed decisions by answering important questions like how far the hospitals and transport links are and what the Ofsted ratings are for nearby schools.

MoveMaker is set to be the first social housing home swapping app in the UK once launched in autumn 2015, with the ability to help 500,000 households over-occupying their homes and another 400,000 under-occupying for free. It will also be offered free of charge to all UK social housing providers for 12 months which will mean over 1,500 landlords stand to benefit from the its innovations, including connecting directly with the correct person at the other housing association and being able to share the documents digitally.

MoveMaker pushes the boundaries of what innovation in social housing looks like and has been created to encompass various identified gaps in the current market at a time of great need in the sector.

At Capital People Consultants, we recognise the amazing work Social Housing providers do. Having worked with over 70 providers over the past year, we're proud to work in partnership with organisations within and beyond the sector; providing analysis, advice, client specific systems and high-calibre training to make good organisations stronger and more successful.

Working closely with our internationally renowned law firm, Capital Law, we can provide a complete and dedicated business service that effectively covers the entirety of an employee's life-cycle, from recruitment to exit, as well as the start up, growth and development of organisations. Our clients benefit from our use of imagination, expertise and experience; making complex things simple and turning legal obligations into commercial opportunities.

MIS Active Management Systems have been providing solutions to Social Housing organisations for over 30 years. With customers ranging in size from 300 to over 40,000 homes we are acknowledged as the supplier with the highest customer rating having topped the last two Housing Technology surveys for Housing Management systems.

Our excellence in software development and customer service stands us out in this competitive industry. We continue to grow by expanding our solution range with new functionality and extending the reach with web and mobile capability so that agile working becomes a reality for our customers, improving an organisations performance and raising standards.

What sets us apart from our competitors? Just ask any of our customers. Enthusiasm, passion, motivation to go that extra mile, flexibility, close relationships with our customers and an open and honest approach. As a company our aim is to provide our customers with the means of delivering long term, sustainable communities through leading edge management solutions bringing on-going efficiencies to an organisation in time, cost and processes.

All our development is carried out at our offices in Cheshire by our own highly experienced developers in collaboration with our business consultants and importantly, our customers. All development incorporates ISO9001 industry standards to ensure quality across the products.

MIS-AMS is committed to the continued development and enhancement of our solutions which are designed to have the flexibility that our customers rightfully expect to fit their needs today and into the future.

allpay is the market leader of bill payment, prepaid and cashless payment solutions, delivering innovative and value-added services. With nearly 20 years' experience allpay has the capacity and resources to manage all of your payment flows, utilising the most cost-effective technology available. Our aim is to work with each of our 750 public and private sector clients to optimise and secure incoming and outgoing payments to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Paragon is an award-winning provider of affordable homes and services in the South East and West London, managing around 9,000 homes across 12 boroughs.

Our varied housing stock provides dedicated housing solutions for first-time buyers, keyworkers, housing for older people, and those in general housing need.

Paragon isn't just about homes, it's about people. Our Investors in People Gold accreditation recognises that Paragon is an organisation that nurtures career development through leadership and training. It shows how our employees are dedicated to providing excellence in the services that residents receive from us.

Our social purpose is to enhance the quality of our customers' lives, beyond just maintaining the houses they call home. We invest heavily in community initiatives - empowering residents to improve neighbourhoods. We aim to inspire the next generation through community projects which help young people gain valuable life skills.

We offer opportunities to learn, from apprenticeships to digital training and provide tailor-made support and advice around welfare and financial security.

We are proud that residents help us to shape our services through a clear framework of co-regulation which enables Paragon to evolve and grow.

Paragon has a robust and progressive development programme, successfully building new shared ownership and affordable homes year upon year.

With over 18,000 homes across the East Midlands, emh group is a leading provider of affordable homes and specialist care and support services in the region.

Investing in our communities for almost 70 years we continue to make an impact through a diverse provision that extends beyond affordable housing and care.

This includes our social enterprise initiatives - designed to support local people, communities, and businesses. The success of this enables us to support our award winning emh group Academy which provides traineeships and apprenticeships for young people in our communities. Most recently the emh group was awarded 'Employer of the Year 2015' by the Leicestershire Apprenticeship Hub in addition to recognition as a national City & Guilds Top 100 Apprenticeship employer in November 2014.

The emh green team has also continued to receive recognition and was recently announced as 'Housing Association of the Year' at the national Green Deal and Eco Awards 2015.

emh group's development programme is increasingly focused on a 'Fabric First' approach and is in the process of developing 68 PassivHaus homes as part of a community-led partnership.

Meeting future housing needs remains a key focus of the emh group business. As a lead development partner in the Quantum Consortium we were successful in securing funding through the HCA's 2015-2018 Affordable Homes Programme.

emh group is proud to be sponsoring the 24housing awards 'Housing Professional of the Year' 2015.

Wheatley is Scotland's leading housing, care and property management group. It comprises five Registered Social Landlords, a care organisation and two commercial subsidiaries.

The Group spans 15 local authority areas across Central Scotland, providing homes and award-winning services to over 120,000 people.

The Wheatley family:

• GHA, Scotland's largest social landlord, with 41,500 affordable homes in Glasgow;
• Dunedin Canmore, with 5,500 homes in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife;
• Cube Housing Association, with 3300 social homes across the West of Scotland;
• Loretto Housing, with 1000 affordable homes in the central belt;
• West Lothian Housing Partnership, with almost 400 affordable homes;
• Loretto Care, supporting over 1000 care clients and service users;
• YourPlace Property Management, Scotland's "Feel Good Factor", with over 25,500 customers;
• and Lowther Homes, which has a growing portfolio of almost 500 mid and full-market apartments from Glasgow's West End to Leith.

All parts of the group are rooted in their local communities and united in their ambition to deliver excellent customer services.

Mobysoft provides innovative time saving solutions to the Social Housing sector.

Our unique rent arrears decision engine (RentSense) is built upon complex algorithms which establishes historical tenant payment behaviours, enabling housing organisations to work smarter and more efficiently. As a Cloud based infrastructure, our solution is highly scalable with the ability to interrogate massive datasets to deliver high value business intelligence at lightening speeds. We enable Housing Organisations to focus resources, increase rent collection rates and tackle Welfare Reform head on.

If you would like to review your rent arrears processes, contact us, quoting code 24awards for your FREE Arrears Healthcheck.

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Willmott Dixon Partnerships delivers a range of planned, preventative and responsive care to properties, which includes maintaining 165,000 homes across the UK. Its family values and respect for people has seen the business receive numerous accolades as one of the best places to work in construction.

Willmott Dixon Partnerships delivers planned and responsive repairs, maintenance and void services to homes owned by RPs and local authorities across the country. All Partnerships' contracts are delivered by dedicated branch teams who work closely with their client teams, and are backed up by programmes of community engagement including "Opening Doors" to provide local people with opportunities to gain work through the partnership.

Who we are

NHBC is the UK's leading independent standard-setting body and provider of warranty and insurance for new homes.

ur role is to work with the house-building industry to raise the standards of new homes and to provide consumer protection for homebuyers.

With no shareholders, NHBC is able to invest in its purpose of raising standards and activities to improve the quality of UK housebuilding. As an expert authority on the housing industry, active in research and development, we work with government and stakeholders to help shape housing policy.

Established in 1936, NHBC is the home warranty provider of choice, currently insuring over 1.6m homes, with a market share of approximately 80%.

NHBC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

What we do

Over 12,000 registered builders and developers throughout the UK use our products and services to help them with the challenges they face. NHBC provides technical support and assistance to help at every stage of development, from land buying, design and build through to customer handover. Our key services are:

• Setting and maintaining construction standards for new homes
• Inspecting homes at key stages of construction for compliance with our Standards
• Providing building control services in England and Wales.
• Providing 'Buildmark', the most comprehensive warranty and insurance policy for new homes in the UK
• The provision of technical and engineering advice, training, health and safety, environmental and energy-rating services for new homes and housing-related sectors

Over the course of its history, NHBC has provided warranty for around 30% of the total existing housing stock in the UK, which equates to over 7 million homes.

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echelon is a specialist Consultancy predominantly focusing on the development of long term Partnering arrangements within the Social Housing sector. The Consultancy is a market leader in the various services it provides; currently working with a range of Clients across the UK developing a reputation for delivering bespoke solutions.

We offer solutions that not only meet our Clients aspirations, but are innovative in the markets that we work. The echelon team is passionate about delivering an excellent service and to continually improve and raise the quality of the core services that we and the Construction Industry offer to its Clients.

We pride ourselves on the fact that we have secured repeat business from nearly every client we have worked with and through the development of a series of standard 'tools' we have been able to develop bespoke solutions to deliver our clients aspirations.

The core services that echelon offers include:

• Procurement Advice and Implementation
• Partnering Implementation
• Open Book Cost Management
• Interim Management
• Performance Management and KPI Implementation
• Supply Chain Management and Integration
• Resident engagement and liaison processes
• Partnering 'Health Checks'
• Asset Management
• Process Mapping
• Training and Mentoring

Halton Housing Trust is a forward thinking and dynamic housing association that manages over 6,500 homes in the vibrant Cheshire towns of Runcorn and Widnes.

The Trust has a reputation throughout the housing sector as an innovator; an early adopter of the benefits of technology as well as a champion of all things digital and social media. This has been integral to its overarching vision of "Improving People's Lives."

Named as 'The Most Connected Housing Association' for the last two consecutive years in an independent study by Visceral Business, the Trust's passion for technology has led it to set up Open Solutions and Open Digital, two subsidiary businesses that offer support to other housing associations.

The Trust employs over 280 talented members of staff, including 80 specialist Maintenance Technicians, working closely with local social enterprises to help improve the life and job chances of young people throughout the borough.

A keen supporter of the Homes for Britain campaign, the Trust plans to build and acquire 800 additional homes in the next four years as part of its contribution towards helping to end the housing crisis within a generation.

We are resource. We deliver marketing communications through creative design, print, data management, mailing, web to print video and online. For over twenty years we have helped housing providers save money on marketing and create more engaging campaigns. We have extensive experience of Newsletters, Annual Reports, Universal Credit Campaigns, Reducing Rent Arrears Communications, Letter Mailings and much more.

www.WeAreResource.co.uk

Our vision is to create lasting solutions to homelessness, unemployment and social exclusion in our communities.

As a charity and housing association, we have invested nearly 50 years in building a first-class reputation for providing a diverse range of housing, support, learning and work services for socially excluded people.

Working across the South from Plymouth to Reading, we manage around 2000 homes and support approximately 10,000 people every year.

We truly believe in making a difference to people's lives through training, learning and having an environment that brings people together.

www.bcha.org.uk

Dutton Fisher Associates (DFA) is a dynamic and innovative Training and Management Consultancy with a proven track record of delivering a broad range of interpersonal skills, leadership, and people management training.

Based in Yorkshire, we deliver to participants from operative to senior management level across a wide range of industries and sectors including Housing, Health & Social Care, Veterinary, Hospitality, Pharmaceuticals and Engineering and Manufacturing. As well as providing training and consultancy in the UK and Europe, we offer a coaching service, and facilitate group learning through the use of training courses and team building events.

www.duttonfisher.com

WM Housing Group is a business on the move. Since the formation of West Mercia Homes in 1998, we have grown steadily through careful alliances and acquisitions. We now employ over 1,000 members of staff and manage more than 30,000 homes across Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Birmingham, Coventry and the wider West Midlands. We're a strong, innovative and reliable partner in a climate of change and opportunity.

We believe in providing decent homes and delivering much more than just housing:

• Our strength is our experience, expertise and reliability that comes from working together
• Our aim is to be more than a landlord by creating places where people are proud to live and work
• Our commitment is to provide high-quality homes for all tenants, leaseholders and shared owners.