Chloe Stothart reveals this week’s movers and shakers
Michael Holmes
Orbis has made Michael Holmes chief executive of housing property services. Michael joins Orbis – which provides security for empty buildings – from property agent Chesterton, where he was chief executive.

Gary McDowall
Gary McDowall has become director of the business assurance services audit

team of consultant Mitchell Charlesworth. He will provide audit, risk- management and corporate governance services to housing, care and charitable organisations.

Sovereign Housing Association
Ruby Unwin (left) and Chris Treacher (left) have joined Sovereign Housing Association as part-time community wardens. The association is recruiting a third warden to join them on the Nightingales, Pigeons Farm and former Sandleford Rise estates.

Sovereign joined with Greenham Community Association, West Berkshire and Newbury councils and Thames Valley Police to get £70,000 of funding for the scheme.

Job of the week

Name
Rebecca McConnell
New job
Fundraising and marketing officer at housing charity Carr-Gomm
Job specification
To add value to Carr-Gomm’s services by raising funds from trusts, companies and statutory sources and to help in marketing Carr-Gomm to key audiences including service users and local authorities
Old job
Community project officer at Groundwork Southwark, raising funds and carrying out environmental improvement projects
First housing job
“This one.”
How did you get there?
“After three-and-a-half years of doing local regeneration projects, I wanted to expand my experience in marketing and fundraising.”
Hobbies
“Yoga, photography and dance. My new toy is a digital camera.”
What is your housing situation?
“I bought a flat in London with a friend. I wouldn’t have been able to get a mortgage on my salary alone.”
Tell us something we don’t know
“When I worked with Groundwork in Derbyshire I was part of a Challenge project that was filmed for Yorkshire TV. The programme made it look like everything happened in one week (including the appeal for volunteers) but in fact it took five almost solid months of planning and coercion.”
What did you want to be when you were a child?
“A fashion designer. I used to watch the Clothes Show every week.”

Source

Housing Today