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Housing Heroes Awards 2025 shortlist

Congratulations to our 2025 Housing Heroes Awards finalists!

 

Winners were announced at the awards ceremony that took place on Monday 23 June at Manchester Central.

Best company health and wellbeing initiative

Money Matters Team - Incommunities

AnyBody Can Dance Organisation - Look Ahead

PLAYCE Pompey - Portsmouth City Council (Portsmouth Homes) and partners

Look Up - Portsmouth City Council (Portsmouth Homes) and partners

Healthier Wealthier Wakefield Families - Vico Homes

Jimmy's Jackets - Watford Community Housing

 

Outstanding achievement by apprentices, sponsored by Places For People (PFP Thrive)

Alishba Hassan - A2Dominion

Emily Webb - Babergh and Mid Suffolk

Jess Ashworth - Housing Bond Alliance

Leah Boyle - Mears Group

Carrie Wilkinson - Women and Manual Trades

Nadia Da Fonseca Ossmane - Peabody

Brooke Thomas - The Barnet Group

Mohsina Shams - Watford Community Housing

 

Independent team of the year

Team CARE - Creative Appeal Real Estate (CARE)

Housing Review Team - Denbury Legal

Technical Operations & Support - EWI Pro

Additional Needs Disability Adaptation (ANDA) team - Pinnacle Service Families

Repairs and Compliance - Pinnacle Service Families

Mould Cross Business team - Switchee

TIS team - Tenants Information Service

Women and Manual Trades

North East Board, WISH

 

Team of the year with up to 1,000 homes

Adullam, Stoke-on-Trent - Adullam Homes Housing Association

Operations - Granville Community Homes

InCommon Team - InCommon

UASC Support - Sportfit Support Services

Health and Housing Team - Tower Hamlets Council

 

Team of the year with over 1,000 to 15,000 homes

Housing Services - Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils

Humanitarian Response Team - Dacorum Borough Council

Programme Delivery - Futures Housing Group

Customer Resolution Team - Golding Homes

Resident Services - Housing Solutions

Tai Môn Tenant Participation Team - Isle Of Anglesey County Council - Housing Department

Housing Services - Melton Borough Council

Never Give Project Team - North Northamptonshire Council

Homeownership - West Kent Housing Association

Wheatley Homes South

Winchester City Council Tenancy Sustainment and Tenant Partnership Team

 

Team of the year with over 15,000 homes

Staple Hill Team - Bromford

Independence and Wellbeing Homelessness Support Team - Great Places Housing Group

Environmental Services Gardening Team - London Borough of Tower Hamlets

National Service Centre team - Pinnacle Service Families

Customer Solutions Team - Pinnacle Service Families

Sustainability Team - Southern Housing

Capital Investment - Southern Housing

Torus

Income Management Team - Vico Homes

Customer Experience & Digital - Westminster City Council

Home Maintenance Services - WHG

 

Housing association or local authority inspirational colleague of the year

Helen Armstrong - Incommunities

Alana Mann - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team

Shahina Khanam - Poplar HARCA

Tanya Keeling - Sanctuary Supported Living

Bernadette Watson - Southern Housing

Jennifer Wickert - Southern Housing

Shummi Begum - Westminster City Council

Leanna Moore - Worthing Homes

 

Independent inspirational colleague of the year

Helen Gazard - Contact Hostel

Hui Zhao - GoBritanya Student Accommodation

Charlotte Brace - Goram Homes

Sarah Gough - Mears Group

Katie Quinlivan - Mears Group

Monique James - Quo Vadis Trust

Faye Sanders – University of Bath

Jacqueline Howell - Your Place

 

Independent inspirational leader of the year

Claire Woodward - Acis Group

Julie Layton - Advance

 

Nichola Fahey - Bridge Housing Solutions

Rudi Nicholls - Clarion Housing Group

Mathew Baxter - Echelon Group

Nicholas Miles - EWI Pro Insulation Systems

Kelly Allman - Humbercare

Lucy Carmichael - Mears Group

Elaine Phillips - Mears Group

Sarah Willcox-Jones - More Than Words (currently working with L&Q)

Samantha Whitton - Petrus Community

Kate Shaw - Sanctuary Supported Living

Fiona Conor - Trust Electric Heating

 

Inspirational leader of the year - London and the south

Vicky Jennings – BCHA

Susan Faridi - Eldon Housing Association

Lisa Price - L&Q

Nicola Evans - L&Q

Sarah Steer - London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Paula Steel - Southern Housing

Sarah Williams - Westminster City Council

Rosalynn Funnell, Woking Borough Council

 

Inspirational leader of the year - wider UK

Fallon Warren - Amplius

Emily Collinson - Golden Lane Housing

Liza Parry - Housing People, Building Communities

Janey Carey - Incommunities

Michelle Howard - Melton Borough Council

Gill Cook - Salvation Army Homes

Lynne Shea - Salvation Army Homes

Charlotte Buggins – Stonewater

Linzi Heggie - Wheatley Group

Shahida Latif-Haider - Wythenshawe Community Housing Group

 

Independent inspirational colleague of the year

Helen Gazard - Contact Hostel

Hui Zhao - GoBritanya Student Accommodation

Charlotte Brace - Goram Homes

Sarah Gough - Mears Group

Katie Quinlivan - Mears Group

Monique James - Quo Vadis Trust

Faye Sanders – University of Bath

Jacqueline Howell - Your Place

 

Housing association or local authority inspirational colleague of the year

Helen Armstrong - Incommunities

Alana Mann - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team

Shahina Khanam - Poplar HARCA

Tanya Keeling - Sanctuary Supported Living

Bernadette Watson - Southern Housing

Jennifer Wickert - Southern Housing

Shummi Begum - Westminster City Council

Leanna Moore - Worthing Homes

 

Lifetime achievement in housing, sponsored by AICO

Julie Layton – Advance

Les Smith - Bromford

Michelle Reynolds - Clarion Housing Group

Deborah Elgar - L&Q

Sharon Barbour - Peabody

Jackie Trundell - SNG

Jane Porter - Southern Housing

Helen McHale - Stockport Homes Group

 

Outstanding achievement in training and recruitment

Choice Housing's commitment to attracting and development - Choice Housing

Green Skills Academy - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team (part of Kensington and Chelsea Council)

Lovell Apprentice & Training Development Programme - Lovell Partnerships

Tracy Round-Turner - Peabody

Career Compass - Places for People

Stroud District Council, Compliance training and recruitment - Stroud District Council

TH.is opportunity. Housing Options Transformation - Tower Hamlets Council

Caroline Richardson - east London division - Vistry Group

 

Tenant of the year

Dionne DaCosta - A safe space for all

Stacy Hartley, Jackie Best and Helen Hutchinson - Accent Housing

Debra Nott - Bromford Flagship

Sally Ingram - Eldon Housing Association

Cathy Smith - Habinteg Housing Association

Amy Gordon - Portsmouth City Council, Portsmouth Homes

Nouar Bretel Lefdil - Roupell Park Resident Management Organisation

Marcia Scott, resident of SW9 Community Housing

Tatiana Jose - The Barnet Group

Steve Southwell - Worthing Homes

 

Employer of the year, sponsored by Tile Hill

Bromford

Clarion Housing Group

Croudace Homes

Kinovo

Mears Group

NCHA

Petrus Community - Sonia Denham

Salvation Army Homes

Trust Electric Heating

Vico Homes (formerly WDH)

 

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