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New Consultant – Heather Langridge Heather is a London School of Economics graduate in Housing and Social Policy and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing. With over 20 years of experience in housing management she has an extensive understanding of all aspects of housing practise, from contract and performance management and contingency planning to supplier development and communication. She is able to foster relationships between all parties to achieve the level of performance and quality required by contracts, value for money, continuous improvement and sustained business growth. In addition, Heather has a detailed working knowledge of the community and estate management environment, gained within a leading London local authority. Specifically, she has experience of all aspects of repairs ordering and processing, gas servicing, rent collection, and tenancy enforcement. She has been responsible for reviewing and updating housing policies and procedures and undertaking service reviews. Heather is a qualified PRINCE2 project manager and a Certified Microsoft Technology Specialist; enabling her to deliver your objectives to a high standard, on time and ensures that your projects will be in safe hands.
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Building Bright Ideas – 2008 This year’s partner event has received excellent feedback with our partners not only getting a great chance to network but also hear from Jessica Taylor, Partner with Trowers & Hamlin discussing the implications of the Better Buys report and Claudia Nuttgens of Basis discussing the role of appreciative enquiry in times of change. If you would like further information on becoming a Cameron Partner, please click on the Cameron Partners logo in the left hand column of this page.
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NHS Developments We are delighted to be working with NHS clients to help develop their procurement and tendering abilities. We will be updating more on this in the next newsletter which will be coming out at the end of October. In the meantime, if you are an NHS organisation (commissioner or provider service) looking for assistance in this area, please do not hesitate to contact Linda Northridge.
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Kensington & Chelsea TMO We are delighted to be working in partnership with Keegans to deliver the re-procurement of their repairs and maintenance contracts. K&C TMO are as the name suggests a tenant led organisation which allows us to use our stakeholder engagement programme ‘Helping HANDS’ to full effect. For further information on Helping HANDS and how it could be used to engage your stakeholders, please contact us or click here to download the flier.
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Tandridge District Council – Health Check Tandridge currently provide their repairs and maintenance via their DLO. This contract is being run very successfully, but they had no way of comparing their service levels to that of other similar organizations. We are in the process of carrying out a DLO ‘healthcheck’which will allow Tandridge to benchmark their services in terms of Value for Money and Best Practice. If your organisation would like to discuss undertaking a Healthcheck, please call Heather Langridge on 01732 897766 to discuss your requirements. |
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Catalyst Communities Housing Association – Soft Market Testing CCHA are about to re-procure their repairs and maintenance contracts. We are delighted to be working with them throughout this programme. CCHA are committed to delivering innovative, value for money services to its customers and to ensure that they maintain this ethos throughout the process, we organized a Soft Market Test to allow potential service providers to engage in early discussion with CCHA and its stakeholders to help shape the future procurement strategy. For further information on undertaking this type of work, please contact Sarah Rae who will be delighted to help.
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Contractor Newsletter Our Contractor Newsletter was issued to contractors across the South East to illustrate some of the new things that we have to offer. To find out more, please click on the link below. Cameron Consulting Contractor Newsletter We covered a whole variety of topics and there were even a couple of competitions, feedback so far has been great! Please let us know if there is something you would like covered in your next newsletter, otherwise we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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PPC2000 Users Group Conference - ‘Soft Skills’ We are delighted to have been invited to run a workshop at the PPC2000 Users Group Conference. If you would like to know more about the conference and exciting developments within the PPC contract please download the flyer here.
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Helping Rykneld Homes achieve Decent Homes We were appointed by Rykneld Homes in June to assist with their Decent Homes Programme. Our role is very exciting as we are working with a Round 6 ALMO to help them not only achieve their Decent Homes Standard but also working with them while they work to achieve the necessary two stars to finalise the monies they require to complete their works programme. We wish them luck and look forward to a great relationship with them.
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Wandsworth Roofing Works We have been commissioned by Wandsworth to help them procure their roofing partner for works to be undertaken early next year. This is a great compliment to our dedicated team.
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New Employee – Sarah Rae Sarah Rae has joined our administration team helping us keep those all important documents and meeting requests flowing just the way our clients like them. Sarah comes from a corporate banking background and worked in the City of London for several years. Having taken time out to look after her two young children, Sarah decided to return to work closer to home and now joins us working on a part time basis. Sarah will be providing support doing everything from arranging our client meetings to managing our Customer Satisfaction Programme – so expect a call from her sometime soon! In her spare time, Sarah enjoys socialising with friends as well as playing golf, skiing and spending time with her family. |
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CHAS accreditation Having been approved by CHAS since 2006, we decided that it was time to make the big, brave step towards accreditation. We achieved this last month and are delighted that we conform to their standards. For more information on CHAS and their approved contractors, please see www.chas.gov.uk. We shall be applying for their environmental certificate soon as an interim step in our ISO14001 plans.
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Anthony Nolan – ‘Brain Gym’ Partner After much deliberation, we have chosen to work with Anthony Nolan for the year. They will now receive 2.5% of the fee from any Brain Gym Programme that is delivered. This is a big part of our Corporate Social Responsibility commitment and they agreed to work with us as they felt our values were very aligned to theirs. We look forward to generating a large donation for them this year. For more information on Anthony Nolan, please click the logo.
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Spring News @ Cameron Consulting! Our Spring Newsletter was issued to all current clients to illustrate some of the new things that we have to offer. To find out more, please click on the link below. Cameron Consulting Spring Newsletter Please contact us if something is of interest to you. In the meantime, Our ‘Save the Date’ timetable is:- Please let us know if there is something you would like covered in your next newsletter, otherwise we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Partnering and the ‘soft stuff’ – article published by Cameron Consulting We were invited to write an article for the PPC2000 users group whose newsletter is sent to it’s members quarterly. This was an exciting article to write as it specifically looked at the difficulties when integrating a new team of client, contractor and consultant. The article is downloadable here.
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Cameron Evolve launch We are expanding our Learning and Development division with the launch of Cameron Evolve, our dedicated training division.
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Take A Fresh Look at our Innovative New Solutions! During April 2008, we are launching a new look website to reflect the growth of the business and most importantly, the changing needs of our clients. We hope that you can take the time to have a look at this fresh, new site and see if there is anything that Cameron Consulting can offer you. As part of this continued growth, we are expanding our Learning and Development division. In addition to Cameron Evolve which is our dedicated training division, we are delighted to introduce ‘Helping HANDS’, and ‘Brain Gym’. Helping HANDS is our stakeholder engagement training package and is designed specifically reflecting all the latest government guidelines around the specific roles of stakeholders in future decision making processes. For further information about this, please click here.
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Brain Gym Brain Gym is designed to allow individuals to ‘work out’ their brain in a relatively short time frame. Each programme has been designed using all latest techniques, theories and tools to ensure participants get the most of their workout and go back to work feeling refreshed and enlightened. For further information about Brain Gym please click here |
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Helping Phoenix Community Homes achieve Decent Homes Phoenix Community Homes are a newly formed Housing Association. They are unique in that they are the first association to use the Community Gateway approach in London. We are therefore delighted to have been asked to help them with consultant procurement in the first stage of their Decent Homes works programme.
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Change of Address Due to recent expansion, we have moved offices. From 7th March 2008 our address is:
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