26 March 2026 Newsletter
Innisfree Housing Association has appointed a Housing Diversity Network (HDN) board trainee as a full member of its board...
12 March 2026 Newsletter
In the middle volume of Douglas Adams’ five-part-trilogy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (stay with me) the Somebody...
26 February 2026 Newsletter
An opinion piece by Darren Burton, who is an ambassador for HDN and a Housing & Community Safety Consultant...
12 February 2026 Newsletter
The first year have regulatory inspections have shown that housing organisations are increasingly expected...
29 January 2026 Newsletter
The HDN Board Member Conference 2026 will take place on 7th May in Leeds, bringing together housing leaders...
15 January 2026 Newsletter
Our Neurodiversity for Line Managers workshop is designed to support managers with practical insights and strategies...
11 December 2025 Newsletter
HDN has had a busy 2025, our colleagues have been focused on listening, learning and reshaping work based on real feedback.
27 November 2025 Newsletter
HDN (together with our partners Devonshires Solicitors) can help get your board ready for the next era of governance.
6 November 2025 Newsletter
John Giesen explores the ongoing conversation around making housing association boards more diverse and representative...
23 October 2025 Newsletter
What an incredible day it was at the HDN Autumn Conference in Milton Keynes! Hosted by Daniel Hewitt, Investigations Editor at ITV News...
9 October 2025 Newsletter
Whilst most of the programme is for housing organisations who recruit their own trainees, we are now accepting individual...
25 September 2025 Newsletter
Is your board truly reflective of the communities you serve? Diverse boards make better decisions, drive innovation, and build greater trust with residents.
4 September 2025 Newsletter
It was HDN’s first Scottish conference last week, bringing together colleagues from across the housing sector to focus on equality
14 August 2025 Newsletter
On Thursday, 7 August, HDN travelled down to Walsall for whg’s staff wellbeing week. We set up in the Wellbeing Marketplace
31 July 2025 Newsletter
We are delighted that our North Star board trainees Chloe Shiel, Nadine Stead, Yannick Daclinat and Jonny Coxon have commenced their on their leadership and governance journey.
17 July 2025 Newsletter
Inclusive recruitment is not just about equality and fairness, it’s also good strategy. Organisations that embrace inclusive hiring practices are better equipped...
3 July 2025 Newsletter
We are really excited to welcome Gary Younge as the keynote speaker at this year’s HDN Autumn Conference, taking place on 14 October 2025 in Milton Keynes.
19 June 2025 Newsletter
Attendees left inspired, equipped with actionable ideas, and ready to drive change in their organisations. A full resource pack will follow...
5 June 2025 Newsletter
In this powerful think piece, HDN Associate Shruti Bhargava reflects on the Prime Minister’s recent immigration speech and white paper...
22 May 2025 Newsletter
In our opening session, Suresh Lal (Managing Partner at Boyden) delivered a frank assessment of the current landscape, highlighting a stagnation in board-level diversity...
5 May 2025 Newsletter
The speaker line-up for HDN’s Board Member Conference in Leeds on 15th May has been confirmed—and it’s nothing short of exceptional.
17 April 2025 Newsletter
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Hewitt, Investigations Editor at ITV News, as host of this year's Autumn Conference
3 April 2025 Newsletter
Now is a particularly pivotal time for issues of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), not only in the UK but across the globe.
20 March 2025 Newsletter
We are delighted to announce that Arooj Shah, Leader of Oldham Council, will be chairing our Board Members Conference on 15th May in Leeds.
6 March 2025 Newsletter
We’re seeking passionate and insightful speakers to join us at our first Scottish Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Conference this August
20 February 2025 Newsletter
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) should be at the heart of every board’s strategy. Sarah O’Neill, HDN Board Member and Chair of Willow Tree Housing Partnership...
6 February 2025 Newsletter
Mark your calendars! Our highly anticipated annual Autumn Conference returns on 14 October 2025 in a new venue - Unity Place, Milton Keynes!
23 January 2025 Newsletter
Berneslai Homes recently achieved a C1 governance rating from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH), reflecting their strong leadership...
9 January 2025 Newsletter
Now is the perfect time to drive meaningful change at your organisation by joining HDN’s Board Trainee Programme!
12 December 2024 Newsletter
This year's conference highlighted the urgent need for greater diversity in housing sector leadership. While some progress has been made...
28 November 2024 Newsletter
HDN Chief Executive, Mushtaq Khan, shares his insights on the Runnymede Trusts's latest report.
14 November 2024 Newsletter
We are now taking enquiries for our new Tenant Board Member Programme....
31 October 2024 Newsletter
The Staff Mentoring Programme (SMP) is our flagship development course for members and has been part of HDN's core business...
17 October 2024 Newsletter
HDN’s Board Trainee Programme has gained a glowing reference from one of its participants...
4 October 2024 Newsletter
The dust hasn’t settled yet but we’re still reliving yesterday’s Housing Diversity Network conference in Birmingham...
19 September 2024 Newsletter
We know that many organisations appoint new board directors this month, and if you want to bring your new board directors....
5 September 2024 Newsletter
We're excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the Housing Community Summit in Liverpool on on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th September...
22 August 2024 Newsletter
Our briefing following our recent member roundtable event on the riots and Islamophobic violence is now available...
8 August 2024 Newsletter
In light of the recent surge in racist violence across the UK, the role of housing organisations in nurturing safe and inclusive communities...
25 July 2024 Newsletter
Our Chief Executive Mushtaq Khan recently delivered an awayday session for the board of Berneslai Homes...
12 July 2024 Newsletter
A new government! What does it mean for equality and Housing? Our Chief Exec Mushtaq Khan has put together some thoughts...
27 June 2024 Newsletter
Last week, HDN held a webinar on the upcoming general election and the impacts we expect it to have on equalities policy and practice.
13 June 2024 Newsletter
Registration for our staff mentoring programme closes at the end of June, so if you are interested in applying, please do not delay!...
30 May 2024 Newsletter
With the Prime Minister calling a general election the media is as saturated with political
coverage as the PM's suit was with rain...
2 May 2024 Newsletter
Registration for our Staff Mentoring Programme is now open...
19 April 2024 Newsletter
A big thank you to everyone who joined us in Leeds yesterday for our Board Diversity Conference
4 April 2024 Newsletter
Britain as we see it today is a nation that has threads of inequality woven deeply into its fabricy...
21 March 2024 Newsletter
We're excited to announce that HDN's Autumn Conference will take place in Birmingham on 3rd October 2024...
7 March 2024 Newsletter
Moreen will be leaving her post as Programmes Manager at HDN, after six and a half years...
22 February 2024 Newsletter
In recent weeks people have been asking us here at Housing Diversity Network to comment on or ‘call out’ individuals or organisations...
8 February 2024 Newsletter
Caithlin's first week is completed! She'd love to say a hello to everyone via this newsletter and hopes to get to know everyone in time...
25 January 2024 Newsletter
What is the role and responsibility of a board? What are the trends in housing regulation? How can we champion equality and diversity in a board setting?...
11 January 2024 Newsletter
Housing Diversity Network is thrilled to announce that on Tuesday evening we were honoured with the...
21 December 2023 Newsletter
We at Housing Diversity Network are proud to have accomplished so much in the last year!...
7 December 2023 Newsletter
We get asked this question from time to time; Do I actually have to have some equality
and diversity training with my board?...
23 November 2023 Newsletter
This month is UK Disability History Month, which was established to
promote understanding, celebrate the achievements of disabled
individuals...
10 November 2023 Newsletter
We are still buzzing from the exciting energy of our third Autumn Conference held on Monday at the Eastside Rooms Conference Centre in Birmingham...
26 October 2023 Newsletter
As we approach the end of the year, we
wanted to create an event that would allow us all to come together in
celebration of the festive season...
12 October 2023 Newsletter
At HDN, we place emphasis on inclusivity and diversity to ensure that our members receive coaching that speaks directly to their individual situations...
28 September 2023 Newsletter
With just six weeks to go, all roads lead to Birmingham for the third of our annual Autumn conferences, this year titled Breaking Barriers...
15 September 2023 Newsletter
Well can you believe it? The Housing Diversity Network is 20 years old
and we celebrated our anniversary last week at the House of Lords...
7 September 2023 Newsletter
Read our White Paper to discover how boards play a pivotal role in
setting the tone and guiding the strategic direction...
17 August 2023 Newsletter
The sun is shining and it looks like we’re still in with a chance of summer arriving before September is over but...
3 August 2023 Newsletter
Hot on the heels of our Community Area launch, which opened two weeks ago, we’re now
thrilled to announce the arrival of our new website.
20 July 2023 Newsletter
Here at HDN we’re passionate about the betterment of people’s lives, in the housing sector
and beyond, and networking is one of the cornerstones of our work.
6 July 2023 Newsletter
It was great to see so many of our friends and partners at the CIH annual conference in
Manchester last week and at our networking mixer on Thursday.
14 June 2023 Newsletter
Here at HDN a cornerstone of our strategy is to strengthen housing association boards the
length and breadth of the country...
1 June 2023 Newsletter
Since its launch in 2021 the Black History Month 365 Fund has distributed over £13k to 29 organisations.
11 May 2023 Newsletter
Moreen and Ruth have been in celebratory mood over the weekend because the Staff
Mentoring Programme has had a springtime boost...
27 April 2023 Newsletter
The Better Social Housing Review has been published, making recommendations to
housing associations...
14 April 2023 Newsletter
HDN is bolstering its leadership team and we’re delighted to announce the arrival.
22 March 2023 Newsletter
Last week we were in sunny Manchester for our first ever Board Diversity Conference
02 March 2023 Newsletter
At HDN we strongly believe there is a need for the housing sector to modernise the way in which we collect
17 February 2023 Newsletter
HDN is a network; and there is nothing we love more than to meet with old friends and new to share
26 January 2023 Newsletter
27th January marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and
13 January 2023 Newsletter
Happy New Year to all our members, friends, partners and associates; from all of us here at HDN
21 December 2022 Newsletter
Well friends, to paraphrase the great John Lennon, ‘another year is almost over and a new one is about to begin
01 December 2022 Newsletter
During 2021-22, here at HDN we successfully ran a 10 month pilot programme
27 October 2022 Newsletter
It has been difficult to avoid the circus (which we used to know as parliament) at Westminster
30 September 2022 Newsletter
Just over a week to wait now folks and we’re all set for our second October conference
18 August 2022 Newsletter
Our flagship October Conference, Walk Your Talk, is just over seven weeks’ away folks and, behind the scenes…
21 July 2022 Newsletter
The next video podcast in our 2022 series is on the way folks; and it’s one you really shouldn’t miss.
7 July 2022 Newsletter
We’re delighted to welcome the newest member of a team, as Ruth Gray has joined Moreen and Shuang to work on our Staff
13 June 2022 Newsletter
On a sunny Thursday in June there is no better place to be than Birmingham when the HDN SMP Celebration comes to town
26 May 2022 Newsletter
Yes friends, the 2022 Staff Mentoring Programme Celebration is almost upon us and we just can’t wait
12 May 2022 Newsletter
LBGT+ Pride Month takes place across the world in June, in celebration of self identity, inclusivity and equality.
28 April 2022 Newsletter
Due to popular demand, and direct requests from a number of our members, we are setting up a network for Black and Minority Ethic (BME)
14 April 2022 Newsletter
The second of our current series of podcasts is out now and available to download.
31 March 2022 Newsletter
April is a time for optimism, folks. We’ve had a taster of some sunny weather already, the days are getting longer, and
17 March 2022 Newsletter
Here at the Housing Diversity Network we live and breathe our principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; and we’re part of a
3 March 2022 Newsletter
Here in the UK and indeed across the planet, we seem to have fallen into the trap of indulging in binary debate
3 February 2022 Newsletter
It’s never easy to decide when is the right time to stop wishing each other Happy New Year…Read More
20 January 2022 Newsletter
Learning Sets give individuals time to explore issues which they need to resolve
6 January 2022 Newsletter
So we’ve all bid a fond(ish) farewell to 2021 and we’re hoping for better, more normal times in the New Year
9 December 2021 Newsletter
Well friends, ‘tis the season of goodwill to all, not that we should really need a season for
25 November 2021 Newsletter
Women’s White Ribbon Day is today on Thursday, 25th November, and the annual event starts
10 November 2021 Newsletter
The allegations of bullying and racial harassment of former Yorkshire player
Azeem Rafiq rocked the
28 October 2021 Newsletter
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month and, here at HDN, we’ll be working
with our partners and members
6 October 2021 Newsletter
Polarised opinions are never particularly useful, not least because…
23 September 2021 Newsletter
There is less than a month to go now until the HDN Autumn Conference, and
plans are racing
10 September 2021 Newsletter
With just over five weeks to go until the HDN Autumn Conference in
Birmingham, we’re
25 August 2021 Newsletter
Less than two months to go now friends; it’s been a long time coming, and we’ve been planning
11 August 2021 Newsletter
The latest in our opening series of podcasts has just been published and it’s a timely reminder to us all that
29 July 2021 Newsletter
Just over 18 months ago (it seems a long time now) news came out from Wuhan
that a virus had
14 July 2021 Newsletter
Well, friends, what a weekend that was! Unless you’ve spent the past four
weeks on the moon
29 June 2021 Newsletter
Here at the Housing Diversity Network we’re a busy bunch, and our
newest team
16 June 2021 Newsletter
Did you see the brilliant videos produced by our Mentee cohort last week? Well if you didn’t
2 June 2021 Newsletter
The late arrival of some sunny weather, remarkably on a Bank Holiday Monday,
isn’t exactly conducive…
19 May 2021 Newsletter
There’s an air of positivity around the nation this week friends, can you feel it?
Even the rainy weather
5 May 2021 Newsletter
Thanks to everyone who listened to Moreen’s take on the Black Lives Matter
movement in our
20 April 2021 Newsletter
Housing Diversity Network (HDN) works with organisations across the housing
sector so that they
7 April 2021 Newsletter
We hope you had a great Easter weekend, a break if you managed to get it and time to enjoy with
23 March 2021 Newsletter
The strength of any organisation is in its people. Leaders in the public and
private sectors stand or
9 March 2021 Newsletter
So another International Women’s Day may have passed but the core message
of this year’s celebration
23 February 2021 Newsletter
A sense of guarded optimism has emerged in the UK over the past few days as positive vaccine news and
8 February 2021 Newsletter
Here at the Housing Diversity Network we share our passion to promote Equality Diversity
27 January 2021 Newsletter
The Housing Diversity Network is collaborating with North Star
and Thirteen to launch
12 January 2021 Newsletter
There was a seismic shift in the world’s attitude to race equality, last year,
following the killing of
15 December 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to HDN’s final newsletter of the year; and as we say goodbye to 2020 let’s
hope we can all get together
1 December 2020 Newsletter
The Federation is publishing the report to understand the current situation and
make meaningful change, and
16 October 2020 Newsletter
The Housing Diversity Network invite you to join us in the next of our series of
webinars, an informative
7 October 2020 Newsletter
During the event we will discuss how to lead in an inclusive manner, make
better decisions and change
22 September 2020 Newsletter
‘We’re all in it together’ was the mantra, back in March, when Rishi Sunak tried to
bring the country together in the face of
8 September 2020 Newsletter
Another week, another killing in the USA and the Black Lives Matter movement
still needs a wider audience
August 2020 Newsletter
The pandemic has accelerated change, and the Black Lives Matter movement has further shed a light on discrimination and how organisations are
July 2020 Newsletter
The housing rights website is your key source of guidance on the housing rights of people with different kinds
July 2020 Newsletter
Before lockdown, we presented the award to Swan Housing Association, and over
the past few months we’ve had enquiries from other organisations
June 2020 Newsletter
As a diversity network the core of our work is about tackling discrimination
and eliminating bias. The combination of the
June 2020 Newsletter
The challenges faced by housing organisations during the current crisis are
unprecedented. The pace of change is electric
May 2020 Newsletter
The housing rights website is your key source of guidance on the housing rights of people with different kinds
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