Judy Hardy
Chief Risk Officer, Places for People

Judy Hardy is the Chief Risk Officer of Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise. Through its industry-leading affordable and supported housing, regeneration & development, property investment, property management, leisure, and procurement businesses, PfP owns or manages around 279,000 homes, operates 100 leisure facilities, employs 13,000 people, and has one of the biggest development pipelines in the sector. After starting her career in the public and charitable sectors, Judy joined Places for People in 2005 and has worked in a variety of roles including as Head of the CEO’s office, in the Placemaking & Regeneration team and as Director of Regulation. She’s motivated by making a difference for Customers and now leads the Group’s risk and compliance function to support Places for People to operate in a safe and compliant way.  Judy graduated from Warwick University with a BA Honours in French and History and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Morenike Ajayi MBE
Director of Finance and Technology, Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association

Morenike Ajayi MBE is an accomplished executive leader with over 30 years’ experience spanning housing, local government, finance, governance, technology and organisational transformation. As Director of Corporate Services at Gravesend Churches Housing Association, she leads finance, IT, HR, governance and risk, bringing a strategic perspective to organisational resilience, effective decision making and long term sustainability.

An award winning speaker and Founder of Career Nuggets, Morenike is passionate about developing confident, values led leaders and helping professionals build trust, influence and lasting impact. She is widely recognised for her contribution to leadership, inclusion and governance, and was appointed MBE for services to race equality and inclusion.

Terrie Alafat CBE
Chair, Riverside Group

Terrie served as Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing from 2015 to 2019 and has a wealth of housing experience spanning over 30 years. Her previous appointments include Director of Housing at the Department of Communities and Local Government where she was responsible for national housing polices including affordable housing, homelessness and supported housing. Terrie has extensive NED experience in housing and homelessness organisations. Currently she is a trustee of the Nationwide Foundation and JRF, as well as chairing JRHT. She is also Senior Independent Director for Grosvenor Hart Homes. Her wealth of knowledge of the housing sector and her work in shaping policy is instrumental in continuing to take the Riverside Group forward as one of the country’s leading providers of housing and homelessness services.

Jo Allen
Head of Member Relations, National Housing Federation

Jo has worked at the NHF since 2015. Prior to joining the NHF, she worked in policy and public affairs roles in local government, the banking sector and the British Embassy in Madrid.

Dr Charles Ambilichu
Senior Lecturer - Accountancy, Birmingham City University

Charles is ACCA qualified and got certified as Internal Auditor and Information System Auditor, and worked in industry and practice, as external and internal auditor and risk management consultant. He teaches Advanced Audit and Assurance to students preparing the ACCA professional level exams, and prepare level 7 Internal Audit Apprentices for the Chartered status of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK). Charles active in research and has published many research papers in internationally recognised peer-reviewed academic journals.

Gossica Anichebe
Social Housing Resident, Peabody and Group Member, G15 Residents Group, Peabody and G15 Residents Group

Gossica is a social housing resident who brings extensive lived experience to her role as an active member of the G15 Resident User Group. She works closely with residents across housing associations to strengthen engagement, share best practice, address common challenges and advocate for national policy changes that improve outcomes for residents. She has five years’ experience as a Non-Executive Director on Peabody’s Resident Experience Committee, where she champions residents’ voices at Executive and Board level. In this role, she helps ensure that feedback from residents’ shapes decision-making and drives meaningful policy and service improvements. Gossica also serves as a Trustee on the Peabody Communities Foundation Board, supporting initiatives that build stronger communities, with a particular focus on care in the community and improving outcomes for people, including those with disabilities. Alongside her housing work, Gossica has over 18 years’ experience in local government across communications, engagement, project management, complaints, policy, performance and service improvement. This breadth of experience enables her to navigate complex systems, influence decision-makers and deliver impactful change. She is passionate about housing and committed to promoting organisational cultures that reflect residents’ priorities, helping to deliver better services and outcomes for communities.

Paul Bayly
Head of Governance and Compliance, National Housing Federation

Paul is the Governance and Compliance Manager for the Federation. He looks after the Federation’s internal risk and assurance processes and is responsible for advising members on governance matters. Paul also assists organisations looking to adopt the Federation’s Model Rules for Registered Societies.

Jemma Belsey
Assistant Director of Digital, Data and Technology, Raven Housing Trust

Jemma leads Digital, Data & Technology services at Raven Housing Trust, with responsibility for technology strategy, cyber security, data governance and digital evolution. With experience spanning multiple sectors, Jemma is passionate about enabling organisations to realise the benefits of AI and emerging technologies, balancing innovation with proportionate governance, assurance and risk management.

Anna Bishop
Chief Executive, Chair, South Liverpool Homes, Community Housing Partnership

Anna is CEO of South Liverpool Homes. She's an experienced social housing executive working in the sector for both large national and smaller local organisations. A champion of equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism, Anna is passionate about reducing inequalities, and has a track record of driving service improvements through ensuring that tenants’ feedback and experiences are heard and shape services. As chair of CHP she is working to highlight the significant contribution smaller HAs make to the lives of tenants, communities and the sector, and how by working together, smaller associations can continue to have an important role.

Alison Blake
Head of Risk and Assurance, Moat

Alison works with senior leaders to understand organisational uncertainties, support effective decision-making and, ultimately, help ensure that the organisation delivers the desired outcomes for its customers. Her role includes responsibility for risk and assurance processes and business continuity, as well as supporting the insurance team.

Asantewaa Brenya
Executive Director of Governance, Risk and Performance / Associate Director,, Ocean Housing / Altair

Asantewaa Brenya is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute with governance experience in charities, public sector administration, sports governance, and social housing governance and regulatory compliance. Asantewaa has helped organisations to strengthen their governance arrangements and implement processes to enable more robust, effective, and transparent decision-making. Asantewaa is a co-author and tutor for the CGI’s certificate on Social Housing Governance.

Bethan Buck
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Bethan has worked for the NHF for eight years, having previously worked for a social enterprise specialising in community development and placemaking for areas undergoing regeneration. As External Affairs Manager for London, Bethan works closely with housing associations across the capital and is responsible for the NHFs offer for smaller housing associations. With significant programme management experience, Bethan is currently working across various specialisms at the NHF including supply and regeneration, building confidence and trust, the Better Social Housing Review, and community cohesion. Bethan also sits on the Advisory Board for the LGBTQ+ Housing Pledge.

Lee Cartwright
Partner, Menzies

Lee is a Partner specialising in the Social Housing sector, with over 30 years’ experience advising housing providers across external and internal audit, risk management, regulatory compliance, and consultancy. He works with social housing organisations ranging from some of the UK’s largest providers to smaller, community-based organisations, as well as charities working across homelessness, equality, care and support. Throughout his career, Lee has held a number of senior leadership roles within the sector and regularly speaks at industry events, including the National Housing Federation Finance Conference. He joined Beever and Struthers in 2019, which merged with Menzies in 2025.

Anne Chapman
Assistant Director – Governance, Risk and Compliance and Company Secretary, Golding Homes

Having extensive governance and strategic and legal experience, Anne's the corporate lead for governance, risk and compliance matters and the Company Secretary for the Golding Homes Group. A solicitor for more than 20 years, including seven years with city firm Norton Rose, Anne’s role encompasses risk management as well as compliance with regulatory standards, data protection and corporate health and safety legislation.

Anne’s extensive stakeholder engagement and governance experience includes non-executive positions with East Midlands Housing (emh) Group (Vice Chair), emh Care and Support (Board Chair), homelessness and mental health charity Porchlight (Vice Chair), and Chartered Institute of Housing (Independent member – Audit and Risk Committee).

Ian Clark
Executive Director of Business Improvement, Together Housing Group

Ian has worked in the social housing sector for 30 years, and is currently Executive Director of Business Improvement at the Together Housing Group. He is responsible for HR and culture, Data, IT, Governance, Risk and Innovation. Ian has done most things in the social housing sector, including working through three HA mergers. He is passionate about data driven cultural and service change, while ensuring no one is left behind. Over his adult life has been a social housing tenant, private tenant, and home owner, so he knows what good and bad landlords look like.

Francesca Crisante
Research Officer, National Housing Federation

Janet Crooks
Finance Director, Stonewater

Chartered accountant with an audit and corporate finance background followed by experience in both the commercial and not for profit sectors. Five years in the housing sector with Stonewater together with time on the board at Soha Housing. Currently a member of the Audit and Risk Committee at Soha.

Nicola Dey
Director Risk Audit and Assurance, Livv Housing Group

Nicola leads Livv's Risk and Assurance function, leading on risk management and assurance, insurance, business continuity, data protection and contract management. She has worked in the housing sector for over twenty-five years, spending the past eight years at Livv and prior to that as part of BDO's Risk and Advisory Services team.

Kate Dodsworth
Deputy Chief Executive, Regulator of Social Housing

Kate started her career in housing 30 years ago in homelessness, working with rough sleepers in Birmingham and later managing homeless hostels in Brighton. After completing a Masters degree in Housing, she worked at the National Housing Federation for 10 years; latterly as Assistant Director covering London, the South East and East of England. She was Executive Director of People and Communications at Amicus Horizon and, post-merger, as Optivo. Kate was Chief Executive of Gateway Housing Association for three years until starting as Director of Consumer Regulation at the Regulator for Social Housing in July 2021. In 2023, she was appointed Chief of Regulatory Engagement at RSH, and in 2026 her role was re-titled Deputy Chief Executive.

Jesse Fajemisin
Board Member, Fairhive Homes

Jesse is the founder of SureScope Associates, a consultancy and surveying business. He has over 15 years' experience in the sector, which has included executive roles (responsible for housing, asset management, compliance and development), and multiple board member roles. Jesse has served as the NHF's Chair of the National Smaller Housing Association Network, acting as a national rep for the sector on panels with the Regulator and Housing Ombudsman. He has regularly chaired or spoken at national NHF events, and been part of a national Better Social Housing Review working group.

Karen Featherstone
Director of Assurance, Places for People

Karen is Director of Assurance at PfP. She is an experienced internal audit, risk and governance professional; a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Internal Auditor as well as having worked in the housing sector for over 20 years, holding the CIHCM qualification. Karen sits on the Executive Team at PfP, helping to shape housing strategy and direction. Karen is also an experienced Non-Executive Director, having Chaired Derwentside Homes, which later became part of Karbon. She currently sits on the board of Berwickshire Housing Association and Women in Social Housing North East.

Rob Fletcher
Director of Digital, Data & Technology, Codi Group

Rob Fletcher is Director of Digital, Data and Technology at Codi Group, which is one of Wales' largest housing associations. He leads digital transformation, data & AI governance, cyber security and emerging technology initiatives, helping ensure that information can be trusted to support effective decision-making, assurance and organisational resilience. Rob is a Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP) and is particularly interested in the relationship between data quality, risk management, governance and the safe adoption of AI within regulated organisations.

Stephen Flounders
Executive Director of Regulatory & Business Services, Gentoo

Stephen is the Executive Director of Regulatory and Business Services at Gentoo Group, where he oversees Gentoo’s approach to risk and assurance, governance, fire and building safety, IT and digital transformation, and business improvement and change. Stephen was Gentoo’s executive lead during its Routine Planned Inspection, which took place over the spring and summer of 2024. Stephen is an Independent Member of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing’s Audit and Risk Committee. Prior to joining Gentoo in 2019, Stephen was a health and safety consultant, advising several housing associations in London and the South, and worked for large organisations in the professional services sector, including EY and KPMG.

Jon Foster
Director of Operational Risk, MTVH

Jon is Director of Operational Risk at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH), a provider of affordable housing and support services for people from the South East to South Yorkshire, and in the East of England. Jon has worked for MTVH since 2019, and prior to this was part of the Grenfell response team at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Jon’s operational risk role at MTVH is broad, covering the organisation’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) capability, through to in-house legal services, and MTVH’s approach to customer vulnerability.

Pauline Hardman
Member, NHF Tenant Advisory Panel

Pauline Hardman is a tenant from County Durham and a member of the NHF Tenant Advisory Panel. Her focus is the gap between the data boards see and the tenants it claims to describe, and why people should be asked rather than inferred.

Judy Hardy
Chief Risk Officer, Places for People

Judy Hardy is the Chief Risk Officer of Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise. Through its industry-leading affordable and supported housing, regeneration & development, property investment, property management, leisure, and procurement businesses, PfP owns or manages around 279,000 homes, operates 100 leisure facilities, employs 13,000 people, and has one of the biggest development pipelines in the sector. After starting her career in the public and charitable sectors, Judy joined Places for People in 2005 and has worked in a variety of roles including as Head of the CEO’s office, in the Placemaking & Regeneration team and as Director of Regulation. She’s motivated by making a difference for Customers and now leads the Group’s risk and compliance function to support Places for People to operate in a safe and compliant way.  Judy graduated from Warwick University with a BA Honours in French and History and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Rob Hardware
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Lizzie Hearn
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Susan Hickey
Chief Financial Officer, Anchor

Susan has a portfolio combining executive and non-executive work. She has over 25 years of leadership in senior finance roles and is an experienced non-executive director. A qualified chartered accountant with a broad range of experience in banking and mortgage finance markets, long term residential property, investment and risk management. Previous roles include 10 years as CFO of the Peabody Trust.

John Hoarey
Head of Dispute Resolution, Housing Ombudsman Service

John joined the Ombudsman in 2017 as an Adjudicator from another regulated sector Ombudsman. Prior to this, he’d worked in legal roles.
After being an Adjudicator, John then trialled new ways of working in a project team before becoming a manager in our Dispute Support function. John became a Dispute Resolution Manager during a period of change and oversaw our all cases awaiting a decision being risk assessed. He rolled out the quality control application for quality checking cases. He assisted in developing our approach to legal proceedings and service charges, before becoming a Senior Dispute Resolution Manager. John became the interim Head of Dispute Resolution in October 2025, providing senior leadership to our statutory Dispute Resolution function.

Michael Hopkins
Counter Fraud Manager, Shared Anti-Fraud Service

Millie Hurault
Senior Client Relationship Consultant, Chirpy Heat

Millie is a social housing heat network specialist with five years’ experience managing complex schemes across London. She now leads Chirpy Heat’s Client Relationships Consultants, supporting major housing associations and local authorities to strengthen performance and prepare their portfolios for regulatory compliance.

Alison Inman
Chair, Tpas

Alison Inman is the Chair of Tpas, the housing sector’s engagement organisation. She is a board member at Saffron Housing Trust, where she chairs the Service Quality Committee, Procurement for Housing, and Balkerne Gardens Trust. Alison is a former Chair of Colchester Borough Homes and the National Federation of ALMOs and is a Co-founder of SHOUT, the social housing campaign group. She received an OBE in 2017 for services to social housing tenants.

Priya Javeri
Chief Information Officer, A2Dominion

Rosemarie Jenkins
Board Member, Housing 21

Ruth Jennings
Executive Director – Care, EMH group

Phil Juhasz
Counter Fraud Manager, Shared Anti-Fraud Service

Phil has over 19 years’ experience working within crime prevention and investigations in both the public and private sector. Since joining the Shared Anti-Fraud Service in 2016 Philip has become a valuable member of the team, successful delivering a fully managed counter fraud service across the partnership, as well as to several housing associations and other third-party organisations.

Phil is the Counter Fraud Manager responsible for SAFS Intelligence Team and the Fraud Prevention and Risk Team.

Phil holds the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) and Certified Counter Fraud Manager qualifications and is a member of the Government Counter Fraud Profession (Fraud Risk Assessment). Phil is actively involved in the GCFP after being one or the first Local Authority Fraud Investigators to enter the profession in 2019.

Phil is passionate about reducing the loss of public funds through identify fraud risks and assisting clients to strength controls to prevent fraud before a loss has occurred.

Mike Kirk
Chair, Hyde Housing Association

Mike is Chair of the Hyde Group Board. He joined Hyde in 2021 from housing association Vivid, where he was Chair from 2017, following the merger of First Wessex (where he was Chair from 2015) and Sentinel.

He is currently a trustee of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust and was previously Executive Chairman at Quadrise Fuels International plc, Chair of Portsmouth Water, Senior Independent Director at KBC Advanced Technologies plc, Chair of The Conservation Volunteers and Chair of Thackray Museum of Medicine.

Mike studied chemical engineering and nuclear fuels technology, at the University of Leeds and Imperial College, respectively and was a Chartered Engineer. After working in the nuclear and chemical industries, he worked as a loss prevention engineer in the insurance industry covering clients throughout EMEA. After gaining a Finance MBA from Bayes Business School, Mike worked in corporate finance and became a Partner at investment bank Cazenove & Co. and then was Managing Director of Financial PR agency Weber Shandwick/Square Mile before commencing a plural career as a non-executive director.

Kate Krokou
Independent Strategy and Transformation Advisor

Kate Krokou is an independent strategy and transformation adviser with more than 20 years’ experience in social housing. Until recently, she was Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Hyde, where she was a member of the Executive Team and led corporate strategy, organisation-wide transformation, M&A integration, customer engagement and communications. During her career, Kate has held senior roles spanning strategy, business intelligence, partnerships and regeneration. She has extensive experience of developing and delivering organisational strategy, leading complex, large-scale transformation and using data, research and resident insight to inform decision-making and improve services.

Amy Laurie
Executive Director of Strategy, Hightown Housing Association

Amy has over 20 years’ experience in the housing sector across senior operational and strategic roles. As Executive Director of Strategy at Hightown Housing Association, she leads the development of Hightown’s corporate strategy alongside governance, assurance and business improvement, working closely with the Board and Executive Leadership Team to strengthen organisational resilience and support effective delivery.

Having previously led complex operational services in highly regulated environments, Amy brings a practical perspective on managing risk through change, balancing transformation with day-to-day delivery and ensuring that governance and oversight remain meaningful as organisations evolve.

Monika Liskiewitz
Director of Financial Resources, Accent Group

Monika is a qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA) with over 18 years of experience working in finance in a variety of roles in highly regulated and customer-centric environments. Monika has provided assurance services and accounting advice to a range of organisations in both the public and private sectors, developing key skills in leadership, building relationships, and technical agility. She worked with a number of housing associations in her professional life. She is now a Director of Financial Resources at Accent Group. Monika is Vice-Chair of the Housing SORP Working Party, she is also Non-Executive Director at Salix Homes.

Lisa Maunder
Group Director of Governance, Bromford Flagship Livewest

Lisa is a Chartered Company Secretary and Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute. Lisa specialises in governance, risk and regulation in social housing. Her 20 years in the sector have seen her take the helm of a variety of front and back office teams including business intelligence, legal, risk and audit, customer insight, communications, complaints and resident involvement. A proven leader, presenter, recruiter and mentor, Lisa has a passion for building stronger and more diverse boards.

Emily McKenna
Corporate Head of Risk and Assurance, Lincolnshire Housing Partnership

Emily McKenna is Corporate Head of Risk & Assurance at Lincolnshire Housing Partnership, where she leads risk management, assurance, health and safety, procurement, fleet, and business intelligence functions. With extensive experience in social housing governance, regulatory compliance, and strategic risk management, she works closely with Boards and executive teams to strengthen organisational resilience, performance, to improve customer outcomes.

Paul McMullan
Director of Fire and DSEAR Consultancy, PIB Risk Management

Fizzy Meredith
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Jenny Osborne
Chief Executive, Tpas

Jenny Osbourne is Chief Executive at Tpas – the tenant engagement experts - and has been in this role since 2014. Her previous role was Head of Corporate Services with specific responsibility for membership and governance matters. She is an English Graduate from Leeds University. Prior to working for Tpas Jenny worked for the Post Office on their management programme in the branch network. Jenny is also the Chair of Stockport Homes Group and is a board member of the National Federation of ALMO’s. Jenny is passionate about the tenant engagement agenda and is a strong advocate for effective partnership working between tenants, providers, contractors and government.

Sarah Page
Trustee and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, Transform Housing & Support

Argiri Papathos
Board Member, Member of Audit and Risk, Governance and People Committee, Eastlight Community Homes

Lucy Park Silva
Head of Risk, Assurance and Health and Safety, Eastlight Community Homes

With 19 years' experience in the social housing sector, Lucy began her career in a customer contact centre before progressing through a range of finance roles and ultimately specialising in risk and assurance. Lucy spent 17 years with Flagship Group before joining Eastlight in 2024. She is a qualified Management Accountant and Certified Internal Auditor, bringing a strong blend of financial, risk and assurance expertise. At Eastlight, Lucy leads the organisation's risk management, assurance, health and safety and fraud functions. She is also responsible for leading Eastlight's resident-led scrutiny programme, enabling residents to independently review services, influence organisational decision-making and help shape continuous improvement across the business.

Kate Parsley
Resident Board Member, Ekaya Housing Association

Kate Parsley has been a resident Board member of Ekaya Housing Association for over 5 years, and has extensive experience of governance, currently holding a Trustee role at Advance, a criminal justice and domestic abuse charity and is a Governor of Stanmore College. Her recently completed MBA dissertation was on diversity on health Boards, and she is a passionate advocate for equity, effectiveness and efficiency in organisations. As a small business owner with a former career in the NHS and local authorities, Kate brings operational awareness, strategic understanding and a collaborative mindset to everything she does.  Kate brings a cross-sector governance perspective to Board-level oversight and is particularly interested in how smaller organisations balance compliance with limited resources.

Kitesh Patel
Director of Risk, Places for People

Kitesh is Director of Risk at Places for People, and has responsibility for Risk Management, Internal Controls Business Continuity and Financial Compliance. Kitesh is an experienced leader with a strong track record in audit, risk management, governance and compliance. Prior to joining Places for People, he worked for Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and has significant experience of audit in local government. Alongside the day job Kitesh is an independent member of the Joint Audit and Risk Panel for Leicestershire Police and Independent member of the Audit and Risk Committee at the Acis Group.

Alicia Pearson
Director of Assurance, Great Places Housing Group

Alicia Pearson is Director of Assurance at Great Places Housing Group, with over 25 years' experience in the housing sector. Alicia leads the organisation's regulation, assurance, corporate health and safety and governance functions, providing strategic oversight and Board-level assurance. She has extensive expertise in governance, regulatory compliance, risk management and internal audit, and has played a leading role in supporting organisations through regulatory inspection, organisational change and emerging regulatory requirements.’

Will Perry
Director of Strategy, Regulator of Social Housing

Will is Director of Strategy at the Regulator of Social Housing, where he is responsible for developing corporate strategy, business intelligence and regulatory policy. He is also responsible for the Regulator’s relationships with the funding markets, investors and advisors. Will is a qualified chartered accountant, and has been a non-executive board member of The Housing Finance Corporation.

Ben Pumphrey
Legal Director and Head of Data Governance, Anthony Collins

Ben Pumphrey is a Legal Director at Anthony Collins specialising in governance and data responsibility, with extensive experience supporting housing providers on data-led decision making. His work focuses on clarifying data ownership and quality, aligning data use with existing governance frameworks and supporting more transparent, accountable organisations.

Sue Ramsden
Policy Leader, National Housing Federation

Sue leads the Federation's policy work on housing management and supported housing.  She is a board member of Thamesreach Housing a small specialist homelessness provider in London.

Paul Roberts
Chair Audit Committee, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing

Paul brings over 30 years of cross sector expertise in risk, governance, leadership, finance and strategy, including over a decade of housing sector experience in executive roles with the Guinness Partnership. Paul is currently an independent consultant working with housing associations and charities to develop their approach to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), Diversity and Inclusion (with a focus on disability), housing strategy and internal controls (especially fraud). He is a Non-Executive Director, also serving as Senior Independent Director and Chair of a number of committees including Audit and Risk as well as Culture and Colleague, across 4 RP’s - Rochdale Boroughwide, Auxesia Homes, Gloucester City Homes and Plexus.

Helen Rourke
Chief Financial Officer, St Mungo’s

Helen joined St Mungo’s in 2024 where leads the Finance, IT and Governance and Compliance functions. Helen is a chartered accountant who spent most of her career to date working in the social housing sector, holding a number of senior, executive and non-executive roles. Helen is also a member of the Audit Committee of a large housing association in the North West of England, and volunteers as a co-ordinator at a Street Kitchen supporting homeless and vulnerable people in Manchester.

Jas Sidhu
Director of Housing, St Basils

Jas S. Sidhu FCMI, MIoL, MCIH is Director of Housing and designated Health & Safety Lead at St Basils, where he oversees landlord services, asset strategy, statutory compliance and building safety across a youth-focused portfolio. Over three decades, he has delivered major programmes in asset management, capital investment, zero-carbon projects, procurement, and service transformation, with a consistent focus on risk management, quality and regulatory assurance. Before joining St Basils, Jas worked in local government for Local Government, where he led on strategic asset management, statutory compliance, health and safety, procurement, and housing commercial services. He is recognised for translating complex regulation into practical operating models, strengthening resident engagement and supply-chain performance. Alongside his professional role, Jas is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster and serves on the Board and Audit & Risk Committee of Westfield Housing Association.

Fiona Smith
Director of Governance and Assurance, Plus Dane Housing

Fiona Smith is Director of Governance and Assurance at Plus Dane, with responsibility for governance, risk management, internal controls, assurance, regulatory compliance and data protection. She works closely with the Board, Committees and Executive Team to strengthen organisational resilience, support effective decision-making, and ensure Plus Dane maintains strong governance and regulatory standards.

Alistair Smyth
Director of Policy and Research, National Housing Federation

Alistair has worked in the social housing sector for the last 16 years in a wide range of roles and organisations including a previous spell at the NHF from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant on a range of neighbourhood and community empowerment projects. He also spent three years working in a customer-facing role as a Neighbourhood Manager and as Assistant Head of Neighbourhoods for Peabody. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Chartered Institute of Housing’s Policy Advisory Committee.

Emma Stone
Director of Housing, Chime Housing

Emma began a career in housing in 1992 and has since developed a deep, practice‑based understanding of how to deliver services that genuinely meet the diverse needs of customers. Since joining Watford Community Housing in October 2022 as Assistant Director of Housing, she has bought together local partners to strengthen multiagency collaboration, and provide coordinated, holistic support for residents. Her approach is grounded in a strong grasp of information‑sharing governance, safeguarding responsibilities, and organisational accountability, ensuring that partnership working is both effective and compliant. With more than three decades of sector experience, Emma is known for championing customer‑centred services, fostering resilient community networks, and offering clear, insightful leadership that helps teams and partners deliver meaningful impact.

Annisha Taylor
Founder and Culture & Performance Architect, Annisha Taylor Consulting

A DEI leader shaping equitable AI adoption, Annisha advises leadership teams on building strategies that are both ambitious and accountable, ensuring the pace of change never outstrips the people it affects. As Group Head of DEI at Ofcom, she brings a sharp focus on the human cost of accelerated technology, asking whether speed is ever worth what gets left behind.

Evelyn Thomas
Member, Finance, Risk and Audit Group, MHS

Heather Thomas
Chief Executive, Sapphire Independent Housing

Heather has been the Chief Executive of Sapphire Independent Housing, a smaller housing association located in North London that offers supported housing and general needs homes, since 2016. Before her current role, she worked as an executive director of operations for several registered providers. She is vice chair of the g320 group of smaller London housing associations and sits on its executive committee. Heather recently completed her tenure as the Chair of CCHA, the local housing association in Croydon, South London, where she lives. She is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and has a Master’s degree in Organisational Behaviour.

Emma Tobin
Head of Specialist Housing – Retirement Villages, Platform Housing Group

Nicola Trevallion
Head of Internal Audit and Risk, Housing 21

Nicola Trevallion is Head of Internal Audit & Risk at Housing 21. She works closely with the Audit & Risk Committee and executive leadership team to provide assurance on governance, risk management, and internal controls, helping to strengthen organisational resilience and support the delivery of high-quality services for residents. Nicola leads the Internal Audit & Risk team, driving improvements through effective action management, stakeholder engagement, raising risk awareness across the organisation, and delivering independent assurance to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.

Becky Tucker
Non Executive Director, Westward Housing Group

An Audit & Risk professional with over 10 years of Housing Sector experience. Becky is passionate about making the management of risk accessible and relevant. Measuring success as effectively working with Boards, Committees and Executives to enable them to make strong risk based decisions within their strategic business planning processes, without inhibiting getting things done!

Becky is Chair of the South East GDPR Network, and works with the National Housing Federation, leading a working group on the development and maintenance of the members guide to Data Retention.

Isabel Varey
Director of Customer Service, Executive Team, Delta Housing

Ceri Victory-Rowe
Director, Campbell Tickell

Ceri is a consultant specialising in governance and regulation in the social housing sector across the UK. She regularly provides advice to the Boards and Executive Teams of registered providers on a range of matters including regulatory compliance and recovery following regulatory compliance challenges.

James Walker
Head of Governance, Clarion Housing Group

James has over a decade of experience in the housing sector and is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute. He leads the governance and compliance function at Clarion Housing Group, and has responsibility for counter fraud, financial crime and whistleblowing.

Ewan Wallace
Group General Counsel, SettleParadigm

Gavin Wallen
Chair, Phoenix Community Housing

Gavin joined the Board at Phoenix in 2023 after becoming an involved resident and studying with the Phoenix Academy. After gaining in-depth knowledge of the sector through our school of social housing, Gavin has found his passion for resident voice and engagement. As an advocate of Phoenix’s resident-led community gateway model, Gavin is keen to see similar approaches adopted across the sector.

Joe Waters
Public Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Joe Waters is Public Affairs Manager at the National Housing Federation (NHF), the voice of housing associations in England. Joe has worked at the NHF for the last three years and has held a number of roles across its external affairs and member relations teams.

Prior to joining the NHF in 2021, Joe worked as a researcher for several MPs in Westminster. Joe is also a volunteer mentor at Advice for Renters, a small charity based in Brent providing support and assistance to tenants who may be isolated, lack confidence, or need help with their housing conditions. He is passionate about tackling the housing crisis and inequality.

Selina White
Chief Executive, Magna Housing

Selina has led Magna Housing for six years, where she has championed innovative solutions for affordable housing across the South West. As the Chief Executive, she has spearheaded initiatives that prioritise community well-being, sustainability, inclusivity and growth. Selina’s unwavering commitment to affordable housing has made her a respected voice in the industry. She actively collaborates with stakeholders to address housing challenges. Selina is Chair of the National Housing Federation’s South West Leadership Forum and plays a pivotal role in shaping housing policies and strategies in the region. She is also a dedicated member of Homes for the South West, a collaboration of the 12 largest developing housing associations in the region, helping to shape national housing policy and driving positive change.

The Right Reverend Rob Wickham
Chief Executive, Church Urban Fund

Bishop Rob Wickham studied geography at Durham University, specialising in urban regeneration, which fired his imagination for urban ministry. From 1998, he served as a parish priest in Kings Cross and then Hackney. Hackney was a place of significant church growth, including housing developments and town centre partnerships. In 2015 he was appointed Bishop of Edmonton in the Diocese of London. In 2023 he was appointed as Group Chief Executive of Church Urban Fund. He has also served as the Chair of Housing Justice since 2020.

Chris Wilkinson
Head of Research and Analysis, Homes England

Chris leads the multi-disciplinary Research and Analysis function at Homes England, providing insight on the market and sector to colleagues and senior leaders at the Agency, as well as running the Agency’s evaluation programme, providing assurance on the impact and value for money of the Agency’s investments. Over the past 15 years, Chris has worked across the public, private and third sector on a wide range of economic development topics, and brings significant Board-level experience, including six years on the Board of Groundwork, including on the Finance and Risk Committee, and on the Board of Future of Greater Manchester, including as Treasurer.

Sue Young
Executive Director of Homes and Growth, Vico Homes

A member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a qualified Lawyer, Sue has over 25 years’ experience of housing development and regeneration schemes in the public sector, working for a local authority before joining Vico Homes in 2015.

Sue supports her team and the wider business to make a difference to the places customers live and drives forward investment that supports the climate change agenda.

Angela Ward
Director – Housing, TIAA

Angela Ward is Director of Housing and Housing Sector Lead at TIAA and has spent more than 25 years working alongside social housing organisations. Angela works with Boards, Executive Teams and Audit & Risk Committees across the sector, bringing insight on regulation, governance, emerging risks and the practical challenges facing housing providers. A regular contributor to sector discussions and events, she is particularly passionate about ensuring assurance goes beyond compliance and helps housing providers deliver meaningful improvement and better outcomes for residents.

Martin Warhurst
Chief Executive & Chair, Habinteg Housing Association & Salix Homes

Martin is the Chair of the Board at Salix Homes.  Previously, he served on the boards of Leeds Federated Housing and Broadacres Housing.  He is the Chief Executive at Habinteg, a housing association that campaigns for accessible and adaptable housing.  Martin is the Vice Chair of the NHF’s Older Persons Housing Group.