This week's movers and shakers
Guinness Trust
Jacqueline Coleman has been appointed regional personnel manager for the Guinness Trust's northern region. She was previously HR business partner at CIGNA Healthcare. Beverley Heaton has been made community investment manager for the North – she previously worked at a training company. Ruth Burton, who formerly worked for a computer company, has been made regeneration manager for the South-east.

Sovereign
Chris Trigwell, property services director at Sovereign Housing Association, has taken charge of its new development and asset management department. He is also deputy chief executive of the Berkshire-based company.

Housing services director Paul Crawford will head its customer services department.

Edward Baliszewski
Edward Baliszewski has been appointed chairman of Wiltshire-based Westlea Housing Association. He succeeds Daphne Wheeler.

Job of the week

Name
Balbir Chatrik
New job
Head of external affairs, Centrepoint
Old job
Policy adviser, children and young people’s unit at Centrepoint
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Centrepoint puts young people at the heart of what it does, so I get to talk to lots of young people using our services. The most memorable thing, though, was going back to my home town to make a speech – with my parents in the audience.
Any advice for someone moving into the sector?
Don’t think of it as a separate sector: housing now should include economic and social inclusion, and regeneration.
Favourite film
Pakeezah, a classic Indian film
Favourite TV programme
24
Favourite book
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Hobbies
Cycling and step aerobics

Source

Housing Today