Keepmoat plc

Keepmoat plc is a leader in Community Regeneration. Based in Doncaster and operating throughout the North of England, its companies specialise in the refurbishment of social housing and the provision of affordable home ownership. Keepmoat plays a major role in the Government's agenda to eliminate social exclusion. The combat of social exclusion starts with the provision of acceptable housing, where higher living standards would increase the levels of community capacity and employment awareness and pave the way towards sustainability. Keepmoat's approach to Community Regeneration is in pursuit of three themes: partnerships, physical regeneration and affordable homes.

Partnerships: One of Keepmoat's strengths and prides is its ability to establish and deliver public-private sector partnerships. Keepmoat has been a leader in social housing and community regeneration partnerships that have set national standards and received government praise and recognition. This partnership formula has not only delighted all the stakeholders involved in the projects, it has mostly empowered local communities by transplanting a spirit of accomplishment and lifting the expectations of local people. Partnership examples include Royds Community Association, Bradford; Sheffield Joint Venture Company; Grimethorpe and Kendray Regeneration Schemes, Barnsley; Rotherham Housing Partnership; Hull & Gipsyville Housing Venture; Durham Housing Partnership; Durham Villages Regeneration Ltd; Newlands Partnership, Bradford; Oakhill, Eastwood & Dalton, Rotherham; Priory Lane, Scunthorpe; Whaley Thorns, Bolsover; Trident NDC, Bradford & Teams Maisonettes, Gateshead. Keepmoat is also spearheading delivery within HMR Pathfinders having recently being selected as preferred development partner for Sefton MBC & Liverpool CC Inner Core - all part of Heartlands HMR.

Regeneration: The reputation of Keepmoat companies as social housing contractors is well established. Our operating companies Bramall Construction and Frank Haslam Milan are the preferred providers of social housing solutions to many local authorities, housing associations and other social registered landlords. They lead the industry in establishing partnering schemes for social housing and are in the frame of most major Large Scale Voluntary Transfers (LSVT) and Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMO). Keepmoat companies have fully adopted partnering and a quality driven agenda that delivers true value-for-money through innovation and continuous improvement. Our effective supply chain management delivers production efficiencies and has transformed our customer interface. Examples of strategic Partnering arrangements for LSVT Stock Upgrade Programme include Sunderland Housing Group, Pennine Housing 2000, Amber Valley Homes, South Liverpool Housing, Walsall Housing Group and Coast & Country Housing. Strategic Partnering arrangements for ALMO Decent Homes Programme include Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing, Rochdale Borough Wide Housing, Bolton at Home, Derby Homes, Ashfield Homes, Tri-Star Homes, Berneslai Homes, Sheffield Homes, Gateshead Housing Company and Newcastle Your Homes.

Affordable homes: Keepmoat is a key player in developing housing for sale for first and second time buyers. Our operating company Haslam Homes is the leading provider of affordable homes in Yorkshire, the North East and the East Midlands and are expanding to North West and Merseyside. Halsam Homes products have received industry recognition and its customers are delighted to achieve their dream of owing their first home of high standards.

Keepmoat believes that the success of the Government's regeneration agenda not only depends upon the integration of the public and private sectors and local communities to deliver environmental works and refurbishment of properties, but it predominately involves a range of socio-economic measures which aim at empowering local communities.

The Keepmoat mission: Delivering Community Regeneration

Working with communities and key stakeholders

Keepmoat has extensive experience in co-coordinating private sector resources. Its experience is positive and comprehensive, based on a track record of successfully delivering holistic and sustainable community regeneration solutions. Keepmoat invests considerably in local communities, utilizing local labour and sub-contractors, and providing much needed training and meaningful employment to local people. In many regeneration schemes, we have provided leading models for mobilizing private sector financial and human capital resources and attracting considerable investment. Three major themes comprise of Keepmoat's blueprint for delivering Community Regeneration::

1. Delivering strategic investment in the regeneration area through the integration of local supply chain and effective selection of local sub-contractors and suppliers, affirmative action, identification of skills and priority recruitment for local labour and the promotion of "micro" enterprise culture by assisting start-up of small businesses. The results often surpass expectations, in the sense that the private resources directed to a geographical area act as a catalyst of sustainability. If and when such action is supported through other initiatives deriving from the public sector (i.e. inward investment measures, measures and instruments directed to the promotion of SMEs), it is clear that regeneration related private sector expenditure could be fully compatible with government expenditure relevant to regional policies.

2. Maximizing the thrust of the expenditure in the regeneration area, through partnering and prime contracting, scale economies, continuous improvement of management and risk costs and standardization, as well as the incentivisation of savings through value engineering and lean thinking process. This issue relates primarily to the vertical integration of a regeneration scheme through the entire supply chain, in order to provide robust value-for-money solutions which are transparent and verifiable to external and internal scrutiny controls. Quite often, the supply chain is incentivised to innovate and embark upon savings exercises. Such approach, in our experience, requires total private sector commitment that goes beyond the traditional contractual interface.

3. Deploying its own resources as well as mobilizing resources available to strategic alliances, to achieve seamless, one-stop shop successful and sustainable regeneration outcomes. In particular, Keepmoat approaches regeneration challenges through the three-fold spectrum of social sustainability, physical regeneration and economic regeneration. Social sustainability, in our experience is achieved when the financial and human resources are directed towards social cohesion, community capacity building, resident/tenant empowerment and the ever important affordable home ownership. Physical regeneration, on the other hand, requires a overall view of issues such as social housing refurbishment and provision of new built for rent, housing for sale, the facilitation and delivery of commercial and retail schemes, medical centres and educational or government buildings. Finally, economic regeneration focuses on issues such as training schemes, employment initiatives, local labour policies and strategic sub-contracting.

Keepmoat has a forward order book of £1 billion in Partnering and Partnership arrangements. We are confident that we will deliver in these arrangements to the satisfaction of our public sector partners, our people and the local communities.