About DIN

Welcome to our community. Join us as we make sense of the now and the future, focusing on innovation and technology to help social housing organisations transform to make life better for their customers.

DIN is a membership network that brings together social housing leaders and their teams, to help their businesses deal with disruption and become more innovative, future-ready and deal with the problems, challenges and opportunities happening now and coming your way.

If you’re investing in corporate innovation, technology and thinking differently to help transform your business, DIN can help equip you with the tools, knowledge and relationships to help you succeed.

Our members get access to a diverse network of professionals and experts, fostering opportunities for knowledge exchange, collaborative learning and strategic partnerships.

With the majority of our focus on discovery and experiential learning from outside the sector, we capture and explore the best of the best, so you’re guaranteed fresh insights, content and new peer networks, while sharing the cost, risk and impact of innovation and change.

To make it as straightforward as we can, our four channels of delivery: leadership, digital and data, people and culture and property, are shaped to give you the opportunity to increase your organisation’s chances of navigating change more effectively.

Who is it for?

DIN’s membership is organisation-wide, giving you the flexibility to maximise your membership across your business.

DIN is particularly targeted at strategic and operational leaders and decision-makers who need to translate their vision
into action, including:

CEOs
Exec directors
Directors of ICT, CIOs and CTOs
Heads of innovation and transformation
HR and people leaders
Leaders of property and neigbourhood teams

However everyone in your team can access our work, research and innovation programmes, so as many people as possible can understand and use innovation to help solve problems and ultimately deliver better services for tenants and residents.

We know our members

We have grown to over 100 members, with a total of 1.7m homes under management; that’s about 40% of the UK’s housing stock. So together, we’re stronger.

We know innovation ebbs and flows and so we flex with it, understanding that social housing cycles change, so when you have an increased reason to innovate but with less resources available to do so, we’re here to help, support and inspire you.

DIN is there to support you with new solutions for the here and now but also ensure you have a view into the future, so you’re prepared for what’s on the horizon, helping your organisation constantly be future-ready.

How we do it

Horizon scanning future developments, trends and technologies to assess their impact and value to the social housing sector
Through inspiring and engaging members to work ‘on’ the business to see the bigger picture by connecting with out of sector leaders.
Expanding members’ peer networks with leaders in other sectors and countries looking to tackle similar problems
Identifying the risks and opportunities that disruption will bring to our member organisations
Working alongside our members to navigate the new business models that may disrupt the sector
Creating new opportunities and a safe space to work collaboratively to define problems better and identify innovative solutions
Focusing on failure and celebrating the ability to stop before you’ve invested too much time, effort and money
Being open to everyone. Whilst DIN is particularly for people in leadership positions, our business-wide membership means anyone can benefit.

Business benefits

Strategic foresight so you can build your skills and organisation’s corporate innovation capacity
Early insights into emerging technologies and new models of service design that may disrupt or assist the housing sector
The ability to test and learn at speed and understand what works for your organisation
A shared, collaborative experience facilitated by respected leaders and practitioners in their field
The benefit of sharing costs and risks to find out what you don’t know about innovation
Excellent ROI compared to doing it alone
Access to some of the best thought leaders and businesses outside of the housing sector to engage with and learn from
Fresh insights, challenge and inspiration to make work better