Cromwood Housing Board
Nigel Davies
Chair and Non-executive Director
Nigel recently retired from a career in local government spanning more than 40 years. He worked for a number of councils in the capital in a variety of key roles and spent the majority of his career at the London Borough of Bromley where prior to retirement he was executive director of environment and community services.
Nigel brings a wealth of experience around housing provision and good governance as well as a long-held commitment to helping to tackle homelessness.
Glenn Arradon
Vice Chair and Non-executive Director
Glenn is an expert in helping organisations to deliver social impact via investment. He is currently investment director at Big Issue Invest where he has overseen millions of pounds worth of investment into social enterprises. He has also taken a leading role in the organisation’s London Housing Fund, which is investing £10m in affordable housing.
Samuel Scharf
Non-executive Director
Samuel has built a reputation as a strategic leader and change facilitator over many years working in housing, social investment, local government and the wider public sector.
He is currently director of housing and customer services at C&C Housing Trust where he leads a team of 100+ responsible for housing management and the regeneration and development of specialist homes in London and the South West.
Tim West
Non-executive Director
Tim is a communications specialist and he advises a wide variety of organisations across business and social sectors. He began his career as a journalist, including stints writing about social housing, before moving into media and PR consultancy. Tim has long had an interest in social enterprise and is founding editor and CEO of Pioneers Post, a magazine targeted at social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses.
PROVIDING QUALITY SOCIAL HOUSING FOR PEOPLE IN NEED
As a small, for-profit social landlord, we are able to work swiftly and innovatively to meet housing needs while delivering on our social mission.
Our track record speaks for itself. We’re helping to tackle London’s homelessness crisis by supporting the delivery of the Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme. We’re also meeting the need for social housing by transforming small, derelict garage sites into high-quality homes. Our agility and business know-how mean we can deliver projects that many larger providers are simply unable or unwilling to take on.
Through greater tenant engagement, we are working to ensure our services are of the highest quality. We strive to not only meet our responsibilities and the standards set by the Regulator of Social Housing but to raise the bar on what’s possible in order to maximize our positive impact.
Interested in our managed expertise?
The homes we provide at Cromwood Housing are managed by the team at our sister organisation, Cromwood Ltd, which has more than 20 years of experience in providing safe, secure housing for some of the most vulnerable people in society.