The Connected Partnership

Shepherds Bush Housing Group is a part of the Connected Development Partnership.

This is a partnership of three associations who have come together to form a development partnership that, for the years 2006 to 2008, has received £54million of grant from the Housing Corporation.

Members of the Partnership are SBHG, Octavia Housing & Care and the Origin Housing Group.

The Connected Partnership is already working on developing an OJEU framework for the tendering of consultants and contractors and is developing its links beyond development.

Property management, housing management, personnel and PR teams are working together across all three associations to improve efficiencies and ensure good practice is in place.

The purpose and values of the Partnership are as follows:

• Connected to communities - we are known for our community based initiatives and for supporting the In Business for Neighbourhoods agenda
• Connected to residents - we value our residents' input at every level
• Connected in development - we can provide over 1,000 quality homes a year
• Connected in partnership - we seek to improve local services as well as our efficiency and effectiveness as independent organisations.

Connected exists to:

• Enable each organisation to obtain Housing Corporation capital grant for the provision of affordable housing at a scale befitting our individual business plan requirements
• Achieve economies of scale in development in terms of programme management, use of consultants and contractors and the use of modern methods of construction
• Enable efficiences to be gained in each organisation by joint procurement, sharing of services and jointly undertaking service development initiatives
• Support the delivery of higher quality services for our customers through joint research and innovation, sharing best practice and joint training.