The Supported Living Property Podcast

In this episode Andy Robinson explains how taking a completely different approach to providing support and homes has led to some incredible outcomes for the people they support.  Andy has drawn on his vast social care background to develop tools that help the people they support have a life that includes being a meaningful part of their community.  He shares the role the right property can play and how he is working with property investor to meet this housing need.  Andy Robinson is the founder and CEO of You First Support Services CIC, a forward thinking, innovative and market leading Social Enterprise, formed as a Community Interest Company (CIC), that enables autistic people, people with learning disabilities and/or mental health illness to build and grow their lives in a way that is both meaningful and purposeful for them and over which they have total control. Andy founded You First in February 2014 after a 30 year career in health and social care. In terms of links, we have the following: Website: https://www.youfirstsupportservices.org.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youfirstsupportservices Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youfirstsupportservicescic?igsh=dG9weTdkZjBjZ3hw Twitter: @YouFirstSupport YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@youfirstsupportservicescic9787/playlists Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.     Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.      Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.     To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network Lisa has written a free guide for you:  If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors    If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease, then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers   These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button, so you don't miss an episode. 

In this episode Jo Robinson shares her experience of running supported living accommodation for 16-18 year olds.  She talks about challenges in the sector and the implications of the recent changes requiring Ofsted registration. Jo explains the types of property that are needed for this age group and what she looks for in property.  Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.  Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group. Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.  To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode, I am delighted to welcome Janette Spiering, who is the founder of the Dementia Village in the Netherlands. Janette shares how she bought her vision to life, the challenges she had and the impact this revolutionary way of supporting people with dementia has had on individuals but also on the way people with dementia are supported worldwide. I ask her if this model be used for people with other support needs, listen to hear her thoughts. Jannette Spiering is founder of the Hogewey vision on care for people living with dementia and founder of TheHogeweyk® , world’s first “dementia-village”. Jannette has been working in care since 1982 and has almost 40years of experience in operational, tactic and strategic management. Jannette focusses particularly on the elderly care & dementia care sector and community-based aged care.Keywords she uses are: de-institutionalization, transformation and normalization of the current and established vision of elderly care.She is a strong advocate for humanizing care and calls for a radical change, a paradigm shift, from the prevailing medical model to a social approach to ageing and dementia.https://www.bethecareconcept.com/en/Contact [email protected] Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.     Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.      Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.     To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠  Lisa has written a free guide for you:  If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠ https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/how-to-find-supported-living-providers     If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease, then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers    These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button, so you don't miss an episode. 

In this episode Henry Davies talks about how he developed and leased a large HMO to a supported living provider. He talks about how he found a the provider and how he developed the property. He explains why supported living appeals to him and why he is now developing more properties for supported living. Henry Davis is a property trader, developer, and landlord, and he purchased his first property in London in 1990. He is the author of The Truth About Property and one of the UK's most experienced property experts. Henry is a guest property writer for The Times Newspaper and the presenter of The Key to Property Investment, a full-day training course on behalf of the National Residential Landlords Association. www.henrydavisproperty.com  https://amzn.eu/d/gHumo3Y Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.     Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.      Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.     To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠  Lisa has written a free guide for you:  If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠ https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/how-to-find-supported-living-providers    If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease, then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers   These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button, so you don't miss an episode. 

In this episode Robert Mellors explains how his own experience of homelessness inspired him to set up a housing association. He shares the lessons he has learned in setting it up and running a service to provide housing for homeless people. Robert talks about good and bad experiences with landlords, the issues around rent to rent in supported living and shares some great advice for those looking to set up a service. Robert Mellors has experienced several periods of homelessness himself, and has taken voluntary and paid roles within a range of homelessness services, he became a qualified debt counsellor and caseworker specializing in welfare benefits, employment law, homelessness law, and consumer law, which enabled him to represent clients in various courts and tribunals.. He then set up his own service obtaining a Supporting People contract. It was during 2010 that Robert decided to start providing housing for the homeless in Sheffield, initially for families, but at the end of 2010 Robert started working as a Specialist Caseworker for Citizens Advice Bureau, within a project helping people with drug and/or alcohol dependency issues. He saw the need for a flexible and supportive housing service for this type of client. In 2011/12 Robert’s housing association, Choice Housing Trust, diversified into the provision of shared supported housing for single homeless people with additional support needs. The document we discuss can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supported-housing-national-statement-of-expectations/supported-housing-national-statement-of-expectations Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.     Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.      Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.     To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network Lisa has written a free guide for you:  If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠ https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/how-to-find-supported-living-providers     If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease, then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers

In this episode Suzanne Smith explains how the proposed changes within the Renters Reform Bill could affect Supported Living. It is important that both providers and property investors understand the changes to tenancies and grounds for possession. Proposed changes to the responsibilities for superior landlords could have big implications for investing in supported living property , but we discuss a clause property investors could add to leases to protect themselves. Suzanne Smith is a lawyer turned self-managing landlord with a portfolio of houses in Maidstone, Kent. She came to property investing fairly late when she “retired” as a corporate lawyer at the age of 51, after working for 25 years in senior in-house legal roles for multinational biotech companies. Suzanne started to share what she was learning as a landlord on her Instagram account, @indie_landlord, with practical reels that also drew on her experience and training as a lawyer. This led to her setting up her blog, The Independent Landlord, in August 2022, which provides reliable, free content on all aspects of being a landlord. It’s grown to be one of the biggest blogs for landlords, with almost 20,000 click throughs on Google each month, and thousands of subscribers to her weekly newsletter. She co-hosts a new weekly podcast called Good Landlording. Suzanne is also an independent member of Propertymark’s disciplinary tribunal.The Independent Landlord website, where you can subscribe to the newsletter: https://theindependentlandlord.comGood Landlording podcast website: https://goodlandlording.com Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠⁠https://supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠⁠https://supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠⁠https://supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode Sian Wilson talks about the housing needs of people with autism, she shares insights from her extensive career supporting children and young people with autism to help you. She explains a range of sensory issues in property that you may not have considered before and gives some advice about how to move forward. Sian Wilson has been working as a Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist for over 30 years in NHS, Education, Charities and she is also the founder of Milestones Paediatric OT service: her clinical specialism is Autistic Spectrum Condition. She is also the founder of Home Sweet Home Property. She has been a landlady for 20 years and is currently expanding her property portfolio. Sian is also the Property Investor Network Host for the monthly Swansea meeting. Throughout her career Sian has seen first hand, and researched, the impact that environment has on mental and physical health, development and learning. She is passionate about adapting space and community support networks to enable independence and quality of life for people with physical and learning challenges. Sian focuses on quality, high standard, functional well-being spaces and homes for long term tenants, that also give great return on investment. Bringing both her passions of property investing and occupational therapy she is expanding her training and coaching program to include 'What property investors need to know about housing for autistic people' If you want to chat and find out more then please do get in touch:- [email protected] [email protected] Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.  Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode Sam Sly shares how she helps people plan for hospital discharge, she explains why so many people with autism and/or a learning a disability are in hospital . Sam draws on her experience to give examples of planning for transition from a hospital or treatment unit to a home in the community. She gives some great advice about managing neighbors and why things can go wrong. ‌ Sam is a Regulation, Health and Social Care consultant working as Sam Sly Ltd (Enough is Enough Time4Change). She is a registered social worker with 30 years of extensive experience working as a support worker, social worker, commissioner, regulator and support provider. Sam developed the process and coined the phrase ‘Life Planning’ which describes the type of person-centered planning Sam Sly Ltd and the Associates at I’m Out of Here use. Sam was part of the Change Team seconded in to transform services in Cornwall post the Budock Hospital scandal and led on the closure of NHS campus provision in Bournemouth. She has an MSc in the regulation of health & social care. Alongside Life Planning Sam does consultancy work for a range of Support Providers, Voluntary Organizations, NHS England, Integrated Care Boards & Local Authorities nationally. Sam spent four years from 2011 setting up, co-owning and as operational Director for Beyond Limits a small dynamic support provider carrying out person- centred planning with people with learning disabilities detained in Assessment & Treatment Units and providing bespoke services for them on return to their local communities. It was here that she developed Life Planning based on a process being used by Partners for Inclusion. [email protected] [email protected] 07900424144 Enough Is Enough - Time4Change! Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode Lisa Kelly-Tonge talks about her journey from being in the RAF to becoming a property investor. Lisa explains how she creates homes for veterans and helps us understand some of the challenges veterans face. She gives some advice for property investors who are interested in creating these much needed homes for veterans. ‌ Lisa Kelly-Tonge is founder of Kelton Homes Ltd. After 16 years in the Royal Air Force, it made sense to combine her passion for the military and passion for property. With lived experience of military life and experience of supporting military families throughout her career, she understands the balancing act of work and home life. Since leaving the RAF, she has made it her mission to understand some of the issues and focus her business on solving property problems. Kelton Homes supports the military family; serving, veterans and other family members too. We provide the house and the create the home. Lisa is married to Lucy, who is currently serving in the military and they have a son called Joshua. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/-kelly-tonge/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com Website - https://www.keltonhomesltd.co.uk Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode well known researcher Imogen Blood discusses her recent research into the impact of social housing. They looked at a wide range of services and tenant groups and studied the interaction between health and supported housing services. They examined the impact of supported housing on health and found how complex tenants support needs actually are, with many tenants experiencing one or more physical and mental health need. Imogen shares some important guidance from the research for supported housing providers to take into practice. ‌ Imogen Blood began her career working in supported housing for people experiencing homelessness and is a qualified social worker. She then moved into research and held several university and charity research posts before setting up the social research consultancy Imogen Blood & Associates in 2009. Her research interests are wide-ranging, and she has carried out various national studies and local strategic reviews on housing with support and/or care. These include the Supported Accommodation Review and the Evaluation of the Supported Housing Oversight Pilots for the UK Government, as well as studies funded by supported housing providers and charities such as National Housing Federation, Riverside Housing Group and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. ‌ Here is the link to the study https://www.housing.org.uk/globalassets/files/supported-housing/final-version-summary-supported-housing-homelessness-health-2.pdf Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.