A revolutionary programme designed to ignite the capability and confidence of individual board members, while also enhancing the effectiveness of both the board and the organisation as a whole.
Inspiring and empowering people, promoting equality, diversity and opportunity for all.
While EDI policies play an important role in setting guidelines and expectations and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, EDI strategies go beyond this to foster EDI on a much broader scale.
HDN supports organisations, individuals, and communities in addressing inequality and embracing diversity through training, consultancy and mentoring.
HDN’s Mentoring programmes can contribute to a wide range of organisational strategies and objectives around learning and development, diversity, inclusion and talent management.
HDN's Board Trainee Programme attracts diverse talent from non-traditional backgrounds, fostering a pipeline of talent for diverse board positions through a two-year development scheme.
Our Board Accelerator Programme helps new and potential Board members to develop their expertise and strategic thinking around current challenges, risk and regulatory requirements.
HDN specialises in providing in-house training on topics relating to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Our training is specifically designed with housing professionals in mind, and can be delivered for organisations of any size.
Our highly skilled and specialist Associates can provide customized and comprehensive support to your organisation.
The DNA combines formal elements like policy and structure with informal ones like culture and values, ensuring compliance while encouraging honest reflection on how EDI principles are truly embedded in your organisation.
At HDN we aim to share best practice to support those working to address inequality and celebrate diversity. We provide members with a wide range of resources, webinars and information about good practice.
06/11/2025
So much of the current treatment of migrant and ethnic minority groups in the UK is ugly and unacceptable racism. We call this out because it is obstructing our purpose as a social housing provider in London. Innisfree Housing Association was founded to provide decent affordable homes for Irish people who faced huge disadvantages in […]
04/11/2025
A worrying rise The latest Home Office hate crime statistics (Home Office, 2025) show a sharp, troubling, and yet sadly predictable increase, with offences motivated by religion up by double digits, and Islamophobic hate crimes rising by around 19% to a total of 3,199 offences. I would recommend that everybody reads the latest update, it […]
31/10/2025
John Giesen writes that boards should be representative but within the boundaries of their diversity and inclusion values: We live in interesting times, or so they say. A lot is said about housing associations boards needing to be more diverse (quite rightly so) and we have also grappled with the concept of being representative of […]
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