SHAL Housing Limited

Who we are

We’re a small community based housing association with 715 homes across Somerset and we’re looking for new Board members.  Our purpose is to provide safe, warm and affordable homes to a decent standard for those for whom the local housing market is not working.

Our tenants drive our strategic agenda.  In 2015 we asked our tenants what our priorities should be.  They said:

1. Invest in maintaining and improving the standard of our existing homes
2. Support tenants who need help to look after their homes and keep their tenancy
3. Tackle anti-social behaviour
4. Help tenants reduce their bills and manage their money
5. Build new homes

As a result have invested almost £2 million across 72% of our homes since 2015, replacing bathrooms, kitchens and external doors as well as central heating systems and windows.  We have an ambitious plan to increase the number of homes we own by over 5% this year.  We have 28 new homes being built in Bridgwater and 10 in Wellington, including 3 shared ownership, our first low cost home ownership homes. 

We work with our tenants and their communities in a number of ways.  We’re the Locally Trusted Organisation for the Big Local Villages Together Partnership in Puriton and Woolavington.  This is a lottery funded project which empowers communities to identify and tackle the challenges their neighbourhoods face to make them even better places to live in.  This includes tackling loneliness, transport and making sure that children and young people are not disadvantaged by growing up in a rural community.

We’re also an Early Adopter of the National Housing Federation’s Together with Tenants programme which aims to create a stronger, more balanced relationship with tenants and residents.

Despite 4 years of rent cuts our financial performance remains strong.  In response to the cuts the Board made some brave, strategic decisions to ensure that we operated as efficiently and as effectively as possible, focussed on delivering out tenants’ priorities and tackling the growing housing crisis.