Indigo House
Housing & Regeneration
Social & Financial Inclusion
Indigo House provides end to end housing and regeneration consultancy services.
We are a house of experts, offering an unrivalled range and depth of integrated services to help clients solve the challenges that housing organisations and social enterprises face in today’s uncertain environment.
We support our clients to make the very best decisions to enhance the quality of life of the communities they serve. We want to influence, and make an impact on the effectiveness of housing markets and affordability, reducing homelessness, maximising value for money, and ensuring exemplary standards of governance in the housing sector.
From problem diagnosis and research, strategy development and business planning, organisational development and change management we have brought together leaders and innovators in their fields to help clients make real, and long lasting change in the housing and regeneration sectors.
Our leaders and wider network of consultants all have proven track records in consultancy, in practice, and in business leadership, helping to overcome challenges and advising on change management in over 200 organisations over the last 30 years.
Services


- Housing and social research
- Service and project evaluation
- Housing market research
- Housing needs assessment
- Affordability analyses
- Policy development
- Feasibility studies

- Governance development
- Leadership development
- Options appraisal
- Stakeholder consultation
- Financial appraisal
- Risk assessment
- Action planning

- Financial planning
- Business planning tools
- Rent restructuring
- Strategic asset management
- Service planning
- Performance monitoring
- Evaluation frameworks

- Interim management
- Project management
- Turnaround management
- Special investigations
- Leadership development and training
- Organisational development
Our Work

Housing Research

Policy Development

Strategy Development

Asset Management

Feasibility Studies

Governance

Stock Transfer

Financial Strategy Development
The Team
Anna Evans
Anna is a specialist in housing policy, strategy and housing service review, redesign and change. She combines a portfolio of consultancy, research and interim executive management to achieve transformational change in housing organisations, and in local and national housing policy.
Andrea Paterson
Andrea is an expert in long term strategic and financial planning for social landlords and community development finance organisations. She has been working with housing associations and local authorities since 1998. Andrea has been CIPFA qualified since 1995
Karen Fitzsimons
Karen Fitzsimons has 30 years of senior level and corporate consultancy experience in the RSL sector, having led three RSLs as Chief Executive and supported numerous RSLs with strategic projects and Interim CEO services.
Nicola Thom
Nicola is an experienced and highly regarded housing professional with over 25 years’ experience within
Angela Spence
Angela has expertise in service review and improvement, project design and
Dr Briege Nugent
Dr Briege Nugent is an independent research consultant and Honorary Research Fellow at
Derek Stewart
Derek has a specialist focus on governance and community wellbeing. He led a breadth of
Douglas Robertson
Douglas is a highly skilled social researcher specialising in housing policy evaluation.
Emma Dore
Emma specialises in policy and research regarding homelessness and the housing of vulnerable groups
Gillian Campbell
Gillian is a highly skilled housing consultant, specialising in strategy and policy development
Lesley Baird
Lesley is an Associate of Indigo House, and previously worked with TPAS for 25 years where she was CEO for 23 years
Kevin Ballantyne
Kevin is our newly employed graduate trainee accountant. Kevin graduated with a Batchelor of Arts in…
Mandy Littlewood
Mandy is a research methods expert with over 20 years research experience including work
Neil Greer
Neil’s expertise is in business and financial modelling. Neil is the technical lead for our
Raminta Kazlauskaite
Raminta has a broad range of data analysis and client facing skills picked up from her time
Regina Serpa
Shona Fleming
Shona is an expert in Office Management, Administration and Human Resources with
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The Indigo House Group
9 Haymarket Square,
Edinburgh EH3 8RY
Registered in Scotland No. SC 544395