Celebrating 100 years Housing in the East Midlands Prof Jo Richardson De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 9th December 2016 Housekeeping, no planned fire alarm, fire exit, loos etc Lunch and networking opportunities at the end of the session

The Centre for Comparative Housing Research at DMU Consultancy Education/ Training www.dmu.ac.uk/cchr Courses at UG and PG level as well as opportunities at PhD level Range of research and consultancy projects – come and talk to us if you have a research question or a business issue you’d like us to explore with you Visit our web page to see range of work and also a list of our staff and associates. Come and talk to me, Ros or Peter in a break between presentations or during lunch afterwards.

CIH is celebrating its centenary and as part of that both looking back on its history, for example to founder of predecessor organisation – Octavia Hill, as well as forward to its next 100 years.   Octavia Hill - CIH

Women & Housing Sector has come a long way in the last 100 years. Women have been at the forefront of improving social housing for the lives of many. However, there are still huge challenges ahead – we can see this from the campaigns around homelessness linked to the 50th anniversary of Cathy Come Home this year and from the moving film by Ken Loach – ‘I, Daniel Blake’.

Frontline Futures So it is important to reflect on housing’s history, but we must also look to the future, which is what we did in our CIH report Frontline Futures Report still available online and I think CIH in Wales are running courses based on the work.

Challenges & Skills Early draft of infographic in CIH frontline futures. Key among the findings of that report was the need to balance a business head with a social heart – this is what Octavia Hill did. The social heart is vital to the raison d’etre of the social housing sector and it is needed now more than ever – we mustn’t forget that.

What’s coming up? Dr Tim Brown, fabulous former Director of CCHR and continued associate at DMU – looking to the future and learning from the past plus Q&A. Dr Yoric Irving-Clarke, recent DMU PhD graduate and now in policy at CIH – housing as a career & emerging issues for the sector. Peter Cowley, NCHA Assistant Director – tackling worklessness and improving decent homes Natalie Robertson, Chair of CIH East Midlands board – celebrating leading women’s contribution to the sector. Lunch and networking from noon. Thank you to Mohammed Kadri from Waterloo housing who has been the key person on the CIH EM board organising this event. Whilst I’m delighted to welcome you here to DMU, it is Mohammed who has been in charge of organising the agenda and speakers and so thank you to him.

Thank you. Please keep in contact: jrichardson@dmu.ac.uk @socialhousing Thank you. And now, without further ado – I’d like to introduce Dr Tim Brown to take a look to our future by learning from our past... Tim.