Housing
Tidewell Housing Trust
Seven sites, one budget
A housing trust with seven sites was planning repairs site by site. We built one shared budget the whole board could read, and a five-year plan to match.
The result
£3.1m
saved over three years
7 → 1
budgets merged into one
4 hrs
for the monthly board pack, from 3 days
The brief
Each of Tidewell’s seven sites kept its own repairs budget. A boiler fund in one site sat unused while another site borrowed to fix a roof.
What we did
We combined the seven budgets into one model and ranked every repair by risk and cost. The board could finally see the whole list.
What changed
A shared repairs fund replaced the seven separate ones, and the board pack fell from thirty pages to six.
Where it stands
The trust has funded its five-year plan without borrowing, and the finance lead now presents the pack herself.
“
For the first time the trustees asked about the plan instead of the spreadsheet.
Marian Oyelaran, Chair of Trustees
