bpha’s Quality and Assurance team won their category at the Housing Association National Accountancy (HANA) Awards on Thursday 6 July 2017. The team was up against Tai Ceredigion, RSM, Broadland Housing Association and Futures Housing Group in the shortlist, before they scooped the prize and took the trophy at the ceremony in London’s Radisson Blu […]

Peter Male, Senior Independent Director at bpha, retired on 31 July 2018, having served on the Board since 2011. During his tenure Peter has seen, and contributed to, many changes at bpha, including significant investments in new homes, our people and in modernisation of our infrastructure. Peter said: “It has been a great privilege to […]

bpha is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Paul Leinster CBE as its new Chair of the Board effective from 23 April 2018. Paul is Professor of Environmental Assessment at Cranfield University and a non-executive board member of Flood Re, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and […]

bpha has appointed Jeff Astle as their new Executive Director of Development and Sales to play a key role in their continued success. Mr Astle was previously the Director of New Business at the Guinness Partnership, having worked at the organisation for over 14 years. Mr Astle was appointed on 2 January 2018 and brings […]

Robert Burgin, chair of bpha, has announced his intention to retire at the end of his current term on 31 March 2018. The recruitment process to appoint Robert’s successor will be led by Peter Male (Senior Independent Director) and the organisation will be working to achieve a smooth transition. Robert Burgin said: “I was appointed […]

bpha are pleased to announce that Paul High has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the bpha Board effective from 18 April 2018. He will also be the Chair of bpha’s ‘for profit’ development subsidiary, Bushmead Homes Ltd. Paul brings over 36 years’ experience in residential development and property management, the majority of which […]

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has reaffirmed bpha’s long-term issuer credit rating of A+, Outlook stable in November 2017. S&P also reaffirmed at A+ the senior secured debt rating on bpha’s outstanding bond issued by bpha Finance plc. S&P have commented in their rating that: A strong performance was recorded in 2017 as […]

bpha is pleased to announce that Jill Ainscough has been appointed as Non-Executive Director to the bpha Board and also as Chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee on 1 October 2016 Jill is a highly experienced non-executive director having completed six years on the board at Sport England, including a period chairing the Audit […]

bpha, a housing association based in Bedford, today announced the completion of a £75m ten year Revolving Credit Facility with the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s (MUFG) banking arm, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd, is Japan’s premier bank and it launched a Social Housing offering last year that consists […]