We offer tailored support for boards and executive teams to help organisations strengthen and improve their governance, including:

Developing Boards

We can support organisations to recruit Trustees and help to develop Board Members individual skills and roles. Our Consultants can also help to create meeting structures and guide you through the process of Board meetings.

Board or Staff Away Days

We can support you to organise and facilitate Board or staff away days.

We recently developed an away day for a large Homelessness Charity in London who had been through significant changes and recruited a new CEO. We held an away day for staff and managers to celebrate their achievements to date, but also to reflect on areas for improvement and aims for the future. This time away helped the team to develop a clear strategy that they could all take ownership of.

Finance

We support accommodation providers around rent setting and Housing Benefit issues and we can also support with improving internal financial systems.

Our consultants also work with charities and social enterprises to become financially resilient which includes developing fundraising strategies and opportunities around increasing unrestricted income.

Become a Registered Provider

Homeless Link also supports organisations to meet the standards that are required to become a Registered Provider. Our Consultants work with Boards and Senior Managers to understand the registration process and develop their internal governance.

We'll match you with an expert in governance

Our consultants have expertise in ensuring that organisations have a high standard of governance. Our team can match you with the best consultant for your needs.

Below are a selection of some of our consultants with expertise in good governance.

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    Dr Bert Provan

    Bert started work in frontline housing management for third sector agencies and as senior officer in housing management and strategy for several London Local Authority, before becoming a Senior Civil Servant in MHCLG for 14 years. He is also a Senior Policy Fellow at LSE focusing on social housing and regeneration.
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    Beth Coyne

    Beth has twenty years’ professional experience in homelessness, criminal justice, mental health, and improving physical, economic and social outcomes for people experiencing disadvantage. She’s worked in in homelessness charities large and small, developing innovative projects and improving services. More recently Beth has led holistic employment services and homelessness prevention in local authorities, and transformation projects with Integrated Care Boards. Beth has experience in mixed-methods evaluation, strategic development, co-design and ensuring people with lived experience can lead service change and improvement. She’s delivered national projects for government, and has a particular interest in place-based systemic change.
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    Karen Patten

    Karen has over 30 years in the care and housing support sector. An experienced consultant, in recent years, Karen has focused on policy development and quality monitoring and reviewing homelessness services, rough sleeper services and mental health provision.
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    Roger Clark

    Roger has worked with people affected by homelessness for 24 years including in senior positions at DePaul UK, The Passage and West London Mission. Roger has undertaken governance service reviews, restructured operations, created a Quality Framework for policies and procedures, written new strategic plans and created new missions, visions and values for organisations. As a consultant, Roger aims to use his experience to help organisations to take stock, be aware of their compliance, deliver good services and strive for excellence in their strategy and operations.

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Siân Morris

National Consultancy Development Manager

Siân is our National Consultancy Development Manager, she supports Sophie and our Associate Consultants in delivering high-quality projects for the sector.