All You Want To Know About Welsh Housing Association Finance

Aim

Social housing is becoming increasingly important in Wales at a time of rising demand for affordable housing and constrained resources. Our 2015 series provides a fully updated introduction and overview to Housing Association Finance in Wales.

Content

This course will include coverage on:


What financial environment are Welsh housing associations working in?
Overview of Welsh Social Housing Finance, Financial and Regulatory Framework, Financial Structures, Financial Aims and Objectives, Government Funding, Sources of Finance, Financial Growth, Comprehensive Spending Review 2010 and Welsh Assembly Government Budgets.

How do the finances of Housing Associations work?
Income & Expenditure Accounts, Cash Flow Statements, Balance Sheets, Income, Expenditure, Capital Financing costs, Rent setting, Service Charges, Intermediate Rents, Supporting People, Housing Benefit (including the changes made by the United Kingdom government).

How do Welsh housing associations fund new development? 
Capital Programmes: The Welsh Housing Quality Standard, Development, Asset Management and Capital Receipts, Private Loans, Social Housing Grant, other Sources of Funding, Taxation and Pensions.

What are the future financial opportunities available to housing associations?
Business and Financial Planning (including thirty-year forecasts), the Efficiency and Effectiveness Agenda (including Procurement and E-technology), Options Appraisals, Stock Transfer and the ‘Community Mutual’ model.

Outcomes

Delegates will have an understanding of how Housing Association Finance is determined and the issues involved.

Who Should Attend

Whether you are a Housing Manager, Tenant Representative, Board Member or even a member of the Housing Finance Team, you could benefit from attending our course.

Customised Course

We are able to customise all of our in house courses to your own needs. 

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