LINKS TO USEFUL ORGANISATIONS

1. General
Answers.com Answers to your questions
Google Find anything on the Internet
Internet Frog Check your internet connection
Wikipedia Indispensable encyclopaedia

2. Climate Change
Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE)
Energy Performance Certificates
Energy Saving Trust (EST)
Energy Saving Assumptions Useful benchmark on EST
Communities & Local Government Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD)
London Climate Change Action Plan
London Green Homes Concierge Scheme
Scientific Alliance
Organisation in deep denial that poses all conceivable questions concerning what we already know for certain about climate change in addition to those that we do not.

3. Environment
The 20th Century Society
The Georgian Group
Open Spaces Society
The Victorian Society

4. Government
Audit Commission
Civil Justice Council
Communities & Local Government (C&LG)
Government Consultations (Cabinet Office)
Links to each department's consultation pages.
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
e-petitions (10 Downing Street)
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Greater London Authority (GLA)
The Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS)
The Housing Ombudsman Service considers complaints against member organisations, and deals with other housing disputes. Bizarely it is up to the landlords to choose whether to become members or not. This service does not touch upon council housing who must refer cases to the Local Authority Ombudsman.
Local Government Association (LGA)
London Development Agency (LDA)
Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI)
Local Government Ombudsman (LGO)
Council Housing Administration cases would properly be directed here only after first failing to get satisfaction through the channel of a landlord's official complaints procedure stages 1 through to 3.
London Councils
Survey of English Housing

5. Housing Consultants, Independant Tenants' Advisors and Training
Agency for Community Empowerment Limited
Aldbourne Consultancy
Information Services for Tenants: Empowerment & Participation (InSTEP)
The Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS)
Trafford Hall Home of the National Communities Resource Centre
Government funded training in community and resident organisational skills.

6. Housing Magazines
Inside Housing
News on the Block
Property People Portal
Roof: Shelter's Housing Magazine

7. Land Reform and other Campaigning or Political Organisations
The Campaign for the Freedom of Information (CFoI)
The Campaign for the Abolition of Residential Leasehold (CARL)
The Chartist
Defend Council Housing (DCH)
English Leasehold Reform (ELR)
The Henry George Foundation of America
The Henry George Foundation (UK)
This Land is Ours
The Leasehold Enfranchisement Association (LEA)
Who Owns the World Extension of the Kevin Cahill book

8. Law Practices dealing in Housing
Arden Chambers
BPP Pro Bono Centre situated at the Law School in WC1R
Final year students undertake Pro Bono work.
College of Law
Final year students undertake Pro Bono work.
Garden Court Chambers
Landlord Law
maintained by Tessa Shepperson, a solicitor
Law Works
Previously known as Pro Bono Group
The Property Law Website
Maintained by Gary Webber, Barrister

9. Landlord's Organisations and Reference Sources
4ps
Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH)
Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA)
Association of Residential Property Managing Agents (ARMA)
Association of Retirement Housing Managers (ARHM)
British property Federation (BPF)
Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
Construction Excellence: In the Built Environment
National Federation of ALMOs (NFA)
National Landlords' Association (NLA)
English Partnerships: The National Regeneration Agency
The Housing Corporation
Registers and regulates Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)
Housemark
"HouseMark's benchmarking service is critical in driving up standards and sharing good practice."
Gordon Perry when still Chief Executive - Kensington and Chelsea TMO
Improvement & Development Agency (I&DEA)
Institute of Residential Property Managers (IRPM)
London Area Procurement Network (LAPN)
London Housing Federation
London Region of the National Housing Federation reoresenting the 400 odd Housing Associations that operate in London.
National Housing Federation (NHF)
Represents and lobbies for Housing Associations, mosty of which are Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)
New Local Government Network (NLGN)
Procurement for Housing
Residential Landlord's Association (RLA)

10. Leasehold and Property Law
Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE)
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
British, Irish and European Union case law & legislation, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
Citizens' Advice Bureau
The Housing Ombudsman Bulletin
from 'News on the Block'
"The Bulletin is written for all those involved in housing management and supplemented by specialist legal input from Arden Chambers. Hours of reading and time-consuming research are distilled into a convenient quarterly digest accessible online" by payment of a subscription.
The Land Registry
The Lands Tribunal
The Law Centres Federation
The Legal Action Group
The Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE)
The LVT Bulletin
from 'News on the Block'
"The LVT Bulletin provides professional and exclusive analysis of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and Higher Court decisions affecting the Residential Leasehold Sector. It is a unique and valuable resource for anyone involved in managing residential property." By payment of a subscription.
Net Lawman: UK legal documents and free legal information
The Residential Property Tribunal Service (RPTS)
Transparency International
Focuses on corruption in public life.

11. Marketing and Finance
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
Credit Action
Statistics and analysis of personal debt in the UK.
Mintel
Commercial reports on various markets. Full reports are too expensive for mortals but summaries are worth noting.

12. Managing Agents
Coop Homes
Pinnacle

13. Professional Bodies
Association of Tenancy Relations Officers (ATRO)
Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)
The Law Society
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

14. Section 16 Agencies
Agencies and Trainers for Involved Communities (ATIC)
Originally this national network of agencies and trainers was entitled the Association for Tenant Involvement and Control
Agency For Community Empowerment Ltd (AFCE Ltd)
Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP
Banks Of the Wear Ltd (BOW)
Birmingham Co-Operative Housing Services (BCHS)
First Call (Housing Consultants ) Ltd.
Open Communities Ltd.
Partners In Change (Housing & Community Ltd.) (PIC)
PEP Ltd.
Public Participation Consultation and Research (PPCR)
PS Consultants and Training Services Ltd.
Safe Neighbourhoods Unit (SNU)
Solon Community Network
Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS)

15. Tenants 15 a. Housing Association Tenants' Organisations (RSL Tenants) Orbit Bexley Housing Association Independent Leaseholders' Group (OBHA Independent Leaseholders' Group )

15 b. Private Tenants' Organisations Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group Federation (BPTRG)
Camden Federation of Private Tenants (CFPT)

15 c. Regional Tenants' Organisations East Midlands Region East Midlands Tenant Participation Forum (EMTPF)
East of England
London Region London Tenant Federation (LTF) London council tenants' umbrella organisation.
London Leaseholders' Network (LLN) London social leaseholders' umbrella organisation. North East Region North East Council of Tenants and Residents (NECTAR)
North West Region North West Tenants’ and Residents’ Assembly
South East of England Region
South West Region Forum of Regional Tenants of the South West (FORT SW)
West Midlands Region
Yorkshire & Humber Yorkshire and the Humber Tenant and Residents Federation
15 d. National Tenants' Organisations and websites Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH)
Defend Council Housing (DCH)
Federation of Private Residents Associations (FPRA)
Housing Revenue Account Review HRA Review is a website only and not an organisation
Moonlight Robbery Campaign Campaign to get all the rent paid in by tenants returned as allowances
National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations (NFTMO)
National Tenant Voice Debate (NTVD) website only - not an organisation.
National Tenant Network (NTN) website only - not an organisation.
Social Leaseholders' Network (SLN) National leaseholders' umbrella organisation.
Tenants and Residents Organisations of England (TAROE)

16. Think Tanks
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
The International Longevity Centre - UK
The Low Pay Commission
Minimum Income Standard for Britain
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Policy Exchange

17. Voluntary / Charitable Sector and Funding
The Charity Commission
Disability Rights Commission
Housing Justice: Christian Vision in Action
Housing Justice Regenerate is a community led regeneration service.
Innovation into Action
London Citizens
London Voluntary Service Council
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
London Civic Forum
London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies
London Social Forum
The London Society
Shelter: the Housing and Homelessness Charity

updated 2008 August 24th.