Chief Executive Officer

About

Thenue Housing Association Ltd is a Registered Social Landlord (RSL) and was formed in 1979. We have a stock base in excess of 3,100 rented properties; we own 23 supported housing properties, have around 45 sharing owners and offer a factoring service to over 800 owner occupiers. Our housing stock is a mixture of new build houses and flats built between the late 1970s and the present day, Victorian sandstone tenements including a few listed buildings and 1930s ‘interwar’ flats. They are spread across several locations in Glasgow including Bridgeton, Calton, Cranhill, Castlemilk, Dalmarnock, Scotstoun, Baillieston and Blackhill.

Our operational base and registered office is 423 London Road. We have two Community Centres, (Calton Heritage & Learning Centre and Netherholm Community Hall), which are managed through our subsidiary Thenue Communities. We employ 69 members of staff and have Group turnover of around £25 million.

We operate a group structure: –

Thenue Housing Association Limited:  owns the housing, is the parent body with charitable status. Regulated by the Scottish Housing Regulator.

Thenue Housing Services Limited:  a wholly owned subsidiary company through which non-charitable consultancy work and other housing related activities are channelled.

Thenue Trust: aims to attract charitable resources for the communities where we work.

Thenue Communities:  a charitable subsidiary company that manages our two local community centres providing facilities for learning, training, play or social events.

The Thenue Group

Thenue Housing Association Limited is a registered non-profit making organisation under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. The Association is a registered Scottish Charity. The Thenue Group comprises Thenue Housing Association Ltd (the parent) and its subsidiary companies, Thenue Housing Services Limited, Thenue Communities and Thenue Trust. The consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the year 2024/25, was £21.9 million.

Thenue Housing Services was established as a non-charitable wholly owned subsidiary of the Housing Association. Established in 1979, its primary purpose was to provide services to other associations and co-operatives which were either too small to employ their own staff or were newly established and had yet to employ staff. We also provided services to associations undergoing a period of change by the provision of experienced staff, providing a range of services from Officer to Director level.  Future non-charitable consultancy work and other commercial housing related activities can be channelled through this subsidiary.

Thenue Trust was established in February of 2002, under a Trust Deed. The purpose of the Trust is to promote further, or support all or any, activities deemed by law to be charitable. The Thenue Trust provides grant support for individuals living within the communities where Thenue Housing operates in the furtherance of their personal achievement or personal development. These grants are designed to provide financial assistance to support local people in the achievement of excellence and personal development in areas such as, (but not limited to), education, employment, training, sport and the arts.

Thenue Communities is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thenue Housing Association. It is a limited liability company with charitable status: the charitable objectives are:

• To provide recreational facilities and to organise recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of the life for persons within the communities and geographical area in which the parent association operates, particularly through the development and operation of the community halls.
• To promote the advancement of citizenship and community development particularly through the promotion of civic responsibility.
• The advancement of education through the promotion of training and education.

The objectives generally are achieved via two community centres (Calton Heritage & Learning Centre and Netherholm Community Hall).

Thenue Housing Association

Our overall anticipated financial profile for the current financial year 2025/26 is summarised:

Our governance structure

The Board of Management is the Group Governing Body and sets our strategic direction and monitors progress and performance against our strategic objectives as well as overseeing our compliance with Regulatory Standards, statutory requirements and our financial commitments. It meets approximately ten times a year, normally on a Tuesday evening. It currently comprises seven highly experienced social housing professionals and 4 tenant Board members who are service users and bring much needed community perspective to Board decisions. A brief overview of our Board membership can be found on our web site.

The Audit & Risk Sub-Committee, meets four times a year. Its main purpose is to generally assess and review risk and consider various reports from the External and Internal Auditors, as well as oversee the production of our annual assurance statement to SHR.

Our Three Area Associations are our main network of tenant and resident consultation. There is a minute of agreement in place, which sets out the respective roles of the Area Association and the housing association.