HAPPI Hour webinar - Almshouses Reimagined: Building strategic partnerships to evolve housing for today's older communities

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• An engaging and comprehensive event, evidencing both the challenges and successes of strategic partnerships.
• Insightful and helpful when sharing ideas, especially on the importance of design.
• Informative and inspiring, showing that there is a lot of potential for almshouses as a typology.

Held hot on the heels of International Day of Older Persons on 1st October, this HAPPI Hour webinar explores how almshouses are evolving as community investors to meet the needs of today’s older communities by building strong local strategic relationships and partnerships, creating new, innovative housing solutions.

Featuring the award-winning United St Saviour’s Appleby Blue and chaired by Charlotte Cook of Winckworth Sherwood, this HAPPI Hour webinar brings together expert speakers and academics to explore:

• Building strategic partnerships to support placeshaping

• Developing collaborative projects

• Showcasing local community initiatives designed to enhance quality of life and reduce social isolation

Essential for anyone involved in housing, community development or supporting older people’s wellbeing.

4:00 pm – Welcome and Housekeeping
Sally Razey, Communications and Membership Officer, Housing LIN

4:05 pm – Welcome and Introduction
Jeremy Porteus, Founder and CEO, Housing LIN, and Charlotte Cook, Partner, Winckworth Sherwood

4:10 pm – Strategic Partnerships and Almshouses: A Driving Force for Housing Provision 
Matt Cowen, Partner, Winckworth Sherwood

4:20 pm – Appleby Blue, One Year On: Key Findings and Recommendations
Lizzie Lynch, PR & Communications, Housing LIN Future Leader Programme participant, & Alison Benzimra, Head of Research and Influence, United St Saviour’s Charity

4:35 pm
Liz Fathi, Trustee of The Almshouse Association, Director of The Trust Partnership, and ex CEO of Tiverton Almshouse Trust

4:40 pm – Audience Q&A
 

5:00 pm – Close

At our popular events, you can:

• Watch and discover new extra care housing developments to find out about the design, development and operational management arrangements so that you can explore solutions that can transform your ‘offer’;
   
• Listen to the latest practice, research, new funding initiatives, innovative products or projects so that you have the insight and intelligence required to improve your service delivery;
   
• Learn about the current sector issues so that you are up-to-date and better positioned to respond to the latest policy and innovative operational developments; and
   
• Connect with industry experts and fellow Housing LIN members, exchange ideas, and share experiences in a relaxed setting.

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