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New member joins EEM right before launch

Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing and Tuntum Housing Association are the latest two organisations to join Efficiency East Midlands (EEM).

Efficiency East Midlands (EEM) is a brand new Procurement and Benchmarking Consortium of housing providers. Its key aim is to bring together all Registered Housing Providers in the East Midlands to show how working together can bring savings to their organisations.

The ever expanding membership of this consortium has now risen to seven housing providers, representing an overall housing stock of more than 70,000 properties across the East Midlands.

Efficiency East Midlands is supported and funded by the Homes and Communities Agency. As a consortium it will aim to achieve savings on the procurement of goods and services and share these savings across all members. During these tough financial times when all our budgets are being tested, making these savings across a number of organisations is a boost, not just for individual housing providers, but for the region as a whole.

The consortium will be officially launched on Monday 19th July at Castle Donington Race Circuit. Registration will be from 9am for a 9.30am start.

The launch event will bring together a range of people with experience in building, regeneration, sustainable homes and environments. It will also give housing providers a chance to share best practice, jointly source goods and services, promote schemes designed to improve employment and skills and reduce negative environmental impact.

Mark Johnson, Chairman of EEM said:

Efficiency East Midlands has the potential to be one of the best organisations of its kind and I hope that other regional housing associations will join us to make this happen.

For further information on Efficiency East Midlands (EEM), please contact Pete Smith at Nottingham City Homes, on 0115 8762086 or email: pete.smith@nottinghamcityhomes.org.uk

(Thursday 15 July 16:00:00 GMT)

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