Online advice and guidance covering the basics of housing finance in all sectors, plus a do-it-yourself guide to major initiatives to help you avoid hefty consultancy fees. From budgets to business planning to investment appraisal, hf:expert helps you make the most of your own skills in day- to-day business and evaluating big decisions. It de-mystifies housing finance.

Benefits include a best practice A-Z, quarterly mailings and fortnightly email updates, question and answer email support, website to post queries and share information, regular events and jobs to view and advertise.

To join please email: hfexpert@hqnetwork.co.uk

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The Leasehold Excellence Network is a resource for anyone working with leaseholders in social housing who wants to improve service delivery AND increase leaseholder satisfaction. Useful for local authorities, ALMOs and housing associations, it aims to help providers compare policy and practice, measure and evaluate performance and identify innovations in the sector.

To join please email: len@hqnetwork.co.uk

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Innovation, ideas and best practice on all aspects of rent collection with a track record of helping improve members' performance. Over 190 members feeding in experience and sharing problems and solutions.

To join please email: rien@hqnetwork.co.uk

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The first national network devoted to health and safety in housing. Provides best practice, briefings and bulletins, plus a groundbreaking health and safety benchmarking exercise. It gives health and safety professionals the information they need to protect employees, tenants (and employers). Features an exclusive Ask-the-Lawyer hotline and an ‘info-share’ programme to match similar organisations to share procedures and practices.

To join please email: safetynet@hqnetwork.co.uk

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The knowledge and skills needed to deliver the strategic housing function grow all the time. It needs an awareness of the strategic links between national, regional and local levels, and calls for analytical skills, marketing, negotiating and influencing.

SEN is a key resource for anyone delivering an effective strategic housing function. Benefits include briefings, weekly updates and bi-monthly newsletters, the website and networking opportunities through workshops and best practice events. SEN takes the hard work out of translating the national and local agenda into local actions.

To join please email: sen@hqnetwork.co.uk

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NeighbourhoodNet is a newly-expanded best practice network that has been developed to now provide a range of targeted support for people who work in the general needs housing and sheltered and supported housing functions. It covers best practice and benchmarking on ket services such as tenancy, neighbourhood and estate management, anti-social behaviour, vulnerability, older people, and community development/regeneration roles. It will keep you up to speed by providing up-to-date information and news, briefings on legislation, evolving regulatory expectations and good practice, and access to other professionals, benchmarking and toolkits, focusing on what you need and want to know.

To join please email: neighbourhoodnet@hqnetwork.co.uk

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The practical no-nonsense network developing skills in all aspects of asset management, especially repairs and maintenance. This network is also relevant to contractors and suppliers. It keeps members abreast of emerging issues and provides an asset management knowledge base second to none.

To join please email: teamnet@hqnetwork.co.uk

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The Residents' Network - supporting residents, making co-regulation work, holding landlords to account. The aim is to inspire and support residents to take the lead on regulating housing providers - whether its scrutiny, inspection, mystery shopping or panel groups. Benefits include: Local events and networking opportunities, 'How we do it' – stories from members and their contact details, ask the expert – online question and answer forum, up-to-the-minute, jargon-free information in our policy updates, Technical/bespoke briefings, ask the expert online facility, and a telephone hotline.

For more information please visit www.theresidentsnetwork.co.uk

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EFEXnet is a brand new specialist best practice network in this emerging area within social housing. It covers the retrofit and development of existing properties to embrace new technologies and act as the blueprint going forward, sustainability, climate change and renewable energy issues - whilst promoting the low carbon agenda within social housing.

The network provides policy, news, support, best practice, information share, benchmarking and other measures all designed to enhance the technical knowledge and expertise of social housing providers.

The new EFEXnet website launches very soon.

To join please email: efexnet@hqnetwork.co.uk

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