Social housing

Baker Tilly is a leader in its work with clients across the full spectrum of the social housing sector providing support and expertise through:

• Compliance services including external and internal audit
• Tax planning and compliance – VAT, corporation tax, PAYE, National Insurance
• Corporate finance including fund raising, mergers, acquisitions and disposals
• IT strategies and effectiveness
• Measuring social impact and social return on investment
• Assistance with efficiency agendas – Baker Tilly offers a nationwide backoffice benchmarking programme
• Assistance with process and procedures reengineering for cost saving and efficiency
• Working with regulatory bodies to provide seminars, workshops and other activities
• Advice on risk management and governance

Helping our clients with current sector issues

We work closely with social housing organisations, including housing associations, registered social landlords and arms length management organisations (ALMOs) to help understand and overcome the principal concerns and challenges currently facing the sector. These include:

• The repercussions and implications of the Comprehensive Spending Review
• The strictures placed on local authority funding and cuts in tenants’ benefit income
• Managing finance and delivering greater efficiencies
• Working with the Homes and Community Agency (HCA) from 2012
• Incorporating new accounting standards
• Rising tenant expectations
• Quantifying and maximising social impact

Our approach is based on integrating our areas of specialist expertise and delivering value added through our national network of local offices. We enable our clients to keep up to date with internal and external pressures that are sweeping the sector.

Contact Baker Tilly's Social Housing team to help guide you through these uncertain times.

Recent publications

• Untapped Potential - An analysis of cost reduction within social housing organisations
  As the UK emerges from recession, with substantial unemployment and greater restrictions on lending, the role of social housing is taking on increasing importance.

• Your Back Office – Perception vs Reality
  Baker Tilly’s Social Housing Back Office Study March 2010
  Learn how organisations who are members of our Back Office benchmarking programme are making up to £1m savings on their back office costs.
  
  Downloadable PDF version (558 kb)