We are one of the UK's foremost housing groups, managing a growing portfolio of over 47,000 affordable and social rent homes, and one of the UK’s largest developers of affordable housing, with plans to build and regenerate 7,000 homes by 2030.
As a purpose-led organisation, we create social value by providing safe, decent and affordable homes to over 100,000 customers. Alongside this, we generate additional social value through our frontline services and supply chain, supporting stronger, more resilient communities.
We work closely with customers, colleagues, partners and our supply chain to ensure our activities target the issues that matter most.
In 2025, we achieved a major milestone by meeting our £100 million social value target nine months ahead of schedule, a result independently audited and verified by the Housing Association Charitable Trust (HACT).
Building on this success, we’ve worked with HACT to develop an expanded organisation wide social value framework that will capture an even broader range of social and economic outcomes, including the value generated through new affordable homes, repairs and core services. This enhanced approach has supported the creation of a new, more ambitious social value target of £550 million by 2030, strengthening our long-term commitment to making a positive difference for our customers and wider society.
Through our environmental programme, Orbit Earth, we work to actively enhance our environment, creating and improving places and spaces for our communities. Under this programme we have three priorities: climate action to become net zero carbon; enhancement of outdoor spaces to improve the quality of natural resources including biodiversity, land, water and air; and sustainable consumption to manage resources, materials and products responsibly.
We operate an agile regeneration and new build development programme, with diverse markets and geographies, and were awarded our second Homes England Strategic Partnership in September 2020. The grant will provide funding for more additional much-needed new affordable homes and builds upon our first Strategic Partnership with Homes England, which was announced in November 2018, bringing the total number of homes to be delivered under this partnership to over 3,800.
Everything we do is underpinned by our rigorous approach to governance including substantial scenario testing. We have an experienced Board and Leadership team with a mix of strong commercial and sector skills, and are fully compliant with the National Housing Federation’s (NHF) 2015 Code of Governance and with the Regulator of Social Housing’s Governance and Financial Viability Standard.
