Golden Marzipan

Celebrating Five Years of Golden Marzipan! This year marks five years since we started Golden Marzipan. And for the first time, we’ve all managed to come together for a Christmas gathering—a lovely afternoon in Manchester. One thing is clear: - We care passionately about social housing and the tenants it serves. - We pride ourselves on being creative, innovative, and disruptive - We’re committed to making a difference in technology, operations, performance, and governance. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season. As we move towards another new year, we’d love to be considered as your change support advisers - there’s plenty to do, and we’re ready to help you. Claire Blacka Louise Cope Linda Colburn Andrew Giles Chris Elliott Stephen Blundell

Delighted to be involved in this fabulous initiative and to be working with the brilliant Claire Blacka

Last chance to contribute before survey closes this weekend! Housing Technology, in partnership with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, HACT and the Open Data Exchange (ODX) is leading the UK’s most comprehensive survey on data standards in social housing. If you're a data practitioner or data champion at a UK housing association please take the time to complete the short survey, as your insights are invaluable in helping to shape the future of data. If you have a few minutes just follow the link and take the survey 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqUw3NGG #dataquality #housingtechnology #data #datastandards #socialhousing #opendata

In social housing, tenant engagement, Design Thinking, and conflict management tend to be formal and process-driven activities. Golden Marzipan has developed Game of Homes with Tentacles Consultancy, understanding that gamification is a powerful tool that businesses can use to drive engagement, boost productivity, and foster a culture of continuous learning. Benefits to your organisation: - Develop actionable solutions in one day - Resolve miscommunications and misconceptions - Foster community engagement - Develop a new way of thinking - Increase trust and transparency Benefits to tenants: - Empowerment - Skill development - Influence decision-making - Improve living conditions - Inclusive environment Talk to our team to find out more about how we can facilitate your workshop: https://lnkd.in/e3XncVx9 #tenantparticipation #empowerment #socialhousing #gamification #solutions #problemsolving #transformation

Download Kate Davies' social housing whitepaper: radical reform through better collaboration, interdependent working and technological innovation - https://lnkd.in/eAGrse-A We've had great feedback about this white paper from Kate Davies CBE FRICS, which captures the issues troubling the people who run housing associations and makes suggestions for solutions. A thought-provoking and fascinating read! #data #digital #socialhousing #governance #innovation #housing #collaboration #digitaltransformation

The Transparency, Influence, and Accountability Standard of Consumer Regulations 2024 requires landlords to be open with tenants and treat them with fairness and respect, so they influence decision-making. We've developed a game that makes sharing ideas, engaging and understanding tenants easy, fun and productive. Game of Homes is an empowering and dynamic game, created to give tenants and colleagues the opportunity to design and develop solutions to challenging issues, making them feel valued and integral to the process. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e_C5zcbP #tenantparticipation #empowerment #socialhousing #gamification #solutions #problemsolving #transformation

Introducing Game of Homes: the tenant participation game! Game of Homes is an engaging, dynamic game designed to give tenants and colleagues the opportunity and power to develop solutions to social housing issues, making them feel valued and integral to the process. Putting you, the tenant, resident, service user, or front-line colleague, right at the heart of the game, it recognises first-hand experience of service failure and miscommunication and develops solutions for the big issues. Golden Marzipan has developed this board game with Tentacles Consultancy, understanding that gamification is a powerful tool that businesses can use to drive engagement, boost productivity, and foster a culture of continuous learning. Through facilitated and structured gamification, we work with you to encourage a sharing of diverse viewpoints and information, ultimately helping us tackle real-life challenges together. For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/e_C5zcbP #tenantparticipation #empowerment #socialhousing #gamification #solutions #problemsolving #transformation

Will I see you at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations' Risk Conference 2024 next week? I'll be speaking about 'Risk, Assurance and Governance in Technology' at 11.30am. Event: SFHA Risk Conference 2024 Date: Wednesday 25 September 2024 Location: The Studio, Glasgow Tickets: https://lnkd.in/ed6hAP6r #speaking #speaker #socialhousing #sfha #risk #riskmanagement #technology #governance #assurance #technologygovernance

Do you provide support to tenants who wish to improve their digital skills through digital inclusion initiatives and community groups? From core services to devices and training, we know what "good" looks like when it comes to tenant digital literacy. This is just one part of how we approach social housing reform in The Marzipan Way. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gpV-piEi #themarzipanway #socialhousing #transformation #humancentreddesign #leadership #literacy #tenantliteracy #digitalliteracy

Exciting speaker news from Steve! Let us know if we'll see you at this Scottish Federation of Housing Associations conference later this month.