The Homes for Cathy Conference 2019 | Inside Housing | 25 March 2019 | TUC Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell St, Fitzrovia, London WC1B 3UB, UK

The conference will bring together sector leaders, practitioners and real examples of the work being done to end homelessness. The event will foster an environment for informed debate and discussion, examination and exploration around the good practices being utilised in the sector.

The conference will see Homes for Cathy members presenting and feeding back on progress made in delivering the 9 Homes for Cathy commitments.

Homes for Cathy is a group of housing associations that were formed in the Cathy Come Home era, that came together in 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of Cathy Come Home and to highlight the continuing needs of homeless people. The Homes for Cathy group has been organizing a range of local and national events over the last two years, with the aim of raising awareness of the needs of the homeless and working on strategies to end homelessness.

The conference is one of the focal points of the campaign where people come together to discuss, learn good practice and share lessons learned and to forge networks.

2019 Speakers

Terrie Alafat CBE
Chief Executive, CIH

David Bogle
Chief Executive, Hightown Housing Association

Steve Douglas
Chair, One Housing Group

Helen Evans
Chief Executive, Network Homes

Chris Hancock
Cead of Housing, Crisis

Lord Kerslake
Chair, Peabody

Tracey Lees
Chief Executive, Wandle

Michael Newey
Chief Executive, Broadlands

Jon Sparkes
Chief Executive, Crisis

Tony Stacey
Chief Executive, South Yorkshire Housing

Jeremy Swain
Head of the Rough Sleeping Initiative Team, MHCLG

2019 Sponsors

• Scottish Procurement Alliance
• Procurement for Housing
• Procurement Hub
• Clarion
• Mears
• Rockwool
• Ark Consultancy
• CIT
• Capita One
• Daikin