Our last Event .. 14, 15 and 16 April 2010

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Programme for 2010

Wednesday 14 April

2.00 Charity Golf Competition
sponsored by Westward Housing Group Group in aid of the CIH President's Charity - Homeless International

6.00 Exhibition Viewing (Main Arena)

6.30 Exhibition Opening Ceremony (Main Arena)
Christian Blackbeard, Past Chair, Chartered Institute of Housing

7.30 Dinner in the Palace Hotel Restaurant followed by spectacular entertainment

Thursday 15 April

From 9.00 Coffee in Exhibition Hall

10.00 Brian Miller, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Housing, South West Region 2009/2010

10.05 Opening Address by Howard Farrand President of the Chartered Institute of Housing and presentation of the student awards

10.15 Keynote Address - Address - Back to the future for Tenants - will the TSA's new powers improve a tenant's lot.
David Ashmore, Chair, National Housing Federation South West, supported by Howard Farrand.

11.15 Coffee/Tea in Exhibition Area

11.45 Group Seminars

• 1 To invest or not to invest ... that is the question! - Greg Wheeler and Mervyn Jones, Savills
• 2 Voids Turnaround How to improve performance by five days or your money back! - Peter Cooper, Independent Housing Consultant
• 3 Housing Benefit RoundUp - 2010 - Maggie Fitzsimons, Consultant
• 4 VfM - tell me the score! - Dylan Chipp
• 5 Building enough homes - a major challenge for the region and its economy - Richard Kitson, Chair, South West Housing Initiative
• 6 Let's look at the best way to tackle Repairs - Stuart Brookes, Signpost Services

1.00 Lunch in Hotel Restaurant with Coffee in the Exhibition Hall

2.15 Presentation of the Westward Housing Group's Golf Competition Prize and Donation to Charity
Julian Tuck, Chief Executive, Westward Housing Group to be received by Howard Farrand, President Chartered Institute of Housing

Keynote Address - Yasmin Alibhai Brown - Yasmin Alibhai Brown can be depended on to be disloyal to blind interest groups and patriotism. She is a journalist, author and excellent speaker.

3.00 Group Seminars

• 7 How Local Authorities are responding to the Single Conversation and how RSLs are involved - Jim Bright, Poole Housing Partnership
• 8 Local Homes for Local Folk - Allocating social housing and the pressures for change - John Perry, Chartered Institute of Housing
• 9 Asset Management - Yogesh Vadgama, Magna Housing Group
• 10 A Year in the Life of Housing - Mike Owen, Coffin Mew LLP
• 11 Homelessness/Re-possession/Legislation - Ruth Bamford, Head of Housing, Citizens Advice Bureau
• 12 Creative Marketing on a Shoestring - Jitinder Takhar - Spectrum Housing Group

4.30 Coffee/Tea in Exhibition Area and within Hotel

4.30 Annual General Meeting of the Chartered Institute of Housing, South West Region to be held in the Main Arena. Tea and Coffee will be served at the AGM - Speakers - President of the CIH or Chief Executive of the CIH

7.00 Conference Dinner Reception - sponsored by Adams Integra

7.30 Conference Dinner
After Dinner Speaker - Mitch Benn - sponsored by Magna Housing Group

10.00 The Babbacombe Boogie Night Club
sponsored by Warwick Corporate Events
The Rollright Stones
sponsored by The Guinness Partnership

Friday 16 April

From 9.00 Coffee in the Exhibition Hall

10.00 Welcome by the new Chair of the Chartered Institute of Housing, South West Region and presentation of the Exhibition Prize

10.15 Keynote Address - Yolanda Barnes, Research Director, Savills plc

11.15 Coffee/Tea in Exhibition Area

11.45 Group Seminars

• 13 Governance - Hugh Laird, Board Development Agency
• 14 Sourceing Ideas - Part 1 (see publicity leaflet and this website)
• 15 Housing Benefit RoundUp 2010 - Maggie Fitzsimons, Consultant
• 16 Building enough homes - a major challenge for the region and its economy - Richard Kitson, Chair, South West Housing Initiative
• 17 Customer Segmentation, Profiling and Service Excellence - Graeme Anderson, Dianne Trow, Bromsgrove & District Housing Trust
• 18 Creating Choices in Older Persons Housing - Fraser Mercer, Frank Haslam Milan

1.00 Lunch in Hotel Restaurant with Coffee in the Exhibition Hall

2.15 Keynote Address - The Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP

3.00 Group Seminars

• 19 Sourceing Ideas Part 2 (see publicity leaflet and this website)
• 20 A Year in the Life of Housing - Mike Owen, Coffin Mew LLP
• 21 Personalisation Agenda - an impending revolution in care and housing related support services - Rob Greig, National Development Team for Inclusion
• 22 The crackerjack debate - Wendy Murphy
• 23 Engaging with the planning system - enabling housing development - Brett Spiller, Royal Town Planning Institute.

4.30 Close of Conference with tea in the Sun Lounge of the Hotel

Additional Sponsors
Conference Dinner Chocolates - Bovis Homes
Conference Programme - Aster Group including New Futures
Delegate Badges - Mansell Construction Services
Delegate Bags - Somer Housing Group
Delegate List - Westlea Housing Association
Map of Palace Hotel and List of Exhibitors - Arcadia Housing Group
Notepads - Tor Homes
Pens - Westward Housing Group
Raffle Prize - Palace Hotel, Torquay
Sponsorship of the Event -
Westward Housing Group