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In 2022, did you know...

• We held 33 HAPPI Hour webinars – They attracted a whopping 4,229 registrations and 9,744 subsequent views on YouTube
   
• Published 40 guest blogs – leading sector thought-leadership on a wide range of issues relating to housing, health, care and technology
   
• Issued 45 editions of HLINks, our weekly e-newsletter – enabling you to keep up to date with the latest in housing with care matters
   
• Published 7 Housing LIN publications – all on a range of different issues in the housing and care sector
   
• Featured 5 Inspirational Achievements – exclusive to our sponsors
   
• Welcomed 2 new organisations into the Housing LIN family of sponsors.

Thank all of you for your invaluable support to sustain Housing LIN.

Housing LIN Top of the Pops 2022!

As we approach Christmas and the New Year, we look back at our top 10 most popular resources in 2022. These included a selection of publications published by the Housing LIN, others produced by our consultancy team, and those we were pleased to release in association with partner organisations.

Take a look at our Top of the Pops here. We look forward to bringing you a further selection of essential news, views, resources and events in the year ahead. 

Inspiring a new generation: Grace House

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Julia Ashley, Business Development Director at C&C/Aster Group, draws attention to Grace House, C&C’s flagship scheme that welcomed new and returning residents into the 170- home scheme over the summer in the heart of St John’s Wood, London.

Our Five top tips on how to ensure catering remains the heart and soul of your care

As residents and extra care housing operators prepare for celebrating Christmas, catering is so vital for a scheme as it brings residents together, provides nutritious meals and is the hub of the scheme. In Housing LIN guest blog, Helen Bailey shares five tips to making catering a solution not a problem. 

HAPPI Hour - Pioneering Urban Design for Later Living

This HAPPI Hour session featured key lessons emerging from an Innovate UK-funded project that the Housing LIN is involved in. Led by Cartwright Pickard architects, the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, the session explored innovative new mixed-use Later Living housing typologies for urban sites in the UK.

We were delighted to be joined by James Pickard, Director at Cartwright Pickard, Julia Ashley, Business Development Director at Aster Group, Elisa Pozo, Architect at Mita Atelier and Fundación Matia, and Cate Pemble, Research Fellow alongside Dr Martin Quirke, Co-Investigator and Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. 

Events

Watch, Listen and Learn

Tuesday's session on Pioneering Urban Design for Later Living drew this year's HAPPI Hour series to a close. 

Our popular HAPPI Hour webinars will return in April 2023! In the meantime, you can revisit all previous HAPPI Hour webinars here. 

Events supported by the Housing LIN

This project, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care NIHR, is undertaking a piece of work to scope exactly how a bigger (national) evaluation of the costs and benefits of domiciliary care might be evaluated in the future.

On Wednesday, 25 January at 12pm, the project team will hold an online workshop to share initial findings from the work above and gather people’s views. 

If you are interested in taking part, please contact g.collins@kent.ac.uk.

Team member segment

Sally Taylor-Ridgway, communications, marketing and event's officer, shares...

"With a drive towards integration, it's important to change how the public understands health and housing inequalities, and this starts with how we communicate about the wider determinants of health in general. This toolkit by the Health Foundation sets out how we can frame communications to tell a more powerful story about health inequalities. The recommendations are based on a 4-year research project by FrameWorks that tested the most effective frames for increasing understanding of the role of the wider determinants of health, and support for action to address them."

Download this toolkit here. 

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Website feedback

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For example, do you find it easy to navigate and find what you are looking for? If you could change one thing about our site, what would it be?

Please email us your comments at info@housinglin.org.uk

willmott Dixon

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.

On behalf of everyone in the Housing LIN team, we wish you Season’s Greeting and we look forward to more successful networking with you in 2023!