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.
Diversity Network Accreditation (DNA) is a forward-thinking outcome-based accreditation framework which provides an independent, robust, and comprehensive assessment of how your organisation is engaging with equality, diversity, and inclusion.
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.
26/07/2024
There have been a lot of discussions recently about tenant groups, tenant boards and other ways of capturing the tenant voice in your organisation. One issue that came up often is the retainment of volunteers on the programmes, so we thought we would put together our thoughts on how to keep those brilliant volunteers. We […]
25/07/2024
Our Chief Executive Mushtaq Khan recently delivered an awayday session for the board of Berneslai Homes, diving into both new and persisting matters currently impacting upon equality, diversity and inclusion- in housing and across wider society. The session began with a discussion of how the new government is likely to influence the EDI and housing […]
10/07/2024
Our thoughts at HDN have inevitably turned to what the election of a new government will mean for equalities and housing. We’ve actually had some informed debates on this – hosting a webinar with key figures from housing and the Labour Party in June, as well as doing some crystal ball gazing with boards and […]
Melika Lewis
The mentoring programme helped me to develop effective communication skills as Connor acted as a role model and displayed desired behaviours in which I have adapted into role and everyday life. The programme aided me in developing my confidence, becoming more assertive to challenging complex situations and expanded my professional network.
Mahara Haque
I'm a lot more confident in my ability as a Board Member now, than I was 18 months ago when I was starting this journey. I think a massive part of that was the mentoring I had as part of the programme. My mentor was a 'rock' throughout the whole process and we still meet up, beyond the HDN programme. They've been great at helping me - by discussing issues and working through things together - they've been amazing. My Strengthscope feedback was really good and there is so much content in the programme. Overall, I've taken a lot out of the Board Excellence Programme.
Very informative and provided some new perspectives and actions on how to make further improvements
A great day! A sensitive subject well facilitated making participants feel at ease and able to engage
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