MSB’s Social Housing Highlight – March 2024

The latest at MSB

Exciting news! We held our first free online legal surgery – MSB LIVE – which was open to all clients, and it was a great success. It will be held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of every month between 2pm and 4pm, with the next one scheduled for the 17th of April 2024. You can book your attendance in advance or join on the day. Don’t forget, we also offer in person legal surgeries, so please do get in touch if you would like us to arrange one.

We are thrilled to welcome a new trainee solicitor to our team, Corale Holmes, who has joined us from the commercial property team – and she is already a great addition. We’re looking forward to working together!

This month, we hosted two free webinars with record attendees. The first was hosted by Andy Moore who was joined by Janine Green, where they discussed the Future of ASB Case Management. For our second free session of the month, Louise Murphy and Tom Knox were joined by Kate Dodsworth from the Regulator for Social Housing, about the Consumer Standards and the self-referral process. We had some great feedback on both sessions! We also hosted bespoke online training sessions for clients on fraud awareness and disrepair. If you are interested in arranging training sessions with the team, please contact dominiqueowens@msbsolicitors.co.uk.

The team at MSB have been collecting Easter Eggs this month to donate to a local food bank in Widnes ahead of Easter celebrations!

This month also held importance in raising awareness, with our team getting involved in learning during Neurodiversity week, as well as Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Day.

March is also a significant month for literary folks with the nationally recognised World Book Day! We involved ourselves in the festivities by dressing up as our favourite literary characters and holding a cake sale, raising £351.00 for The World Book Day charity. We love supporting great causes, so if you have any projects that you would like us to get involved with, please contact thomasstockton@msbsolicitors.co.uk.

We can’t forget it was International Women’s Day on the 8th and we at MSB celebrated in style. The team were attendees at a number of events, including the Women in Law Annual dinner, where we were fortunate enough to meet and hear from the inspirational Lady Hale – the Taylor Swift of the legal world! We also attended the Women in Social Housing and Women in Property event, the Pro-Manchester lunch and the IWD Connect lunch with Agent, sponsored by MSB. All in all, a wonderful and celebratory day.

We have been out and about a lot this month, with MSB’s own Amy Tagoe and Corale Holmes attending a very windy Women in Property walk up Pendle Hill. Julia Michalczyk and Shathisa Perera attended the Future-pro pro-Manchester Spring Social, with Julia also attending a local high school, delivering a presentation during their career’s week about following a career in Law. It hasn’t been all lunches, dinners and days out. We have also attended events this month to keep up to date on new developments, with Louise Murphy and Connor O’Riley at MSB attending the Housing Finance Conference.

Our Book Club reads this month are Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes, In Memoriam by Alice Winn and The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. If you are going to give any of the books, we have recommended a go, please let us know your thoughts and we can add your review to our book club newsletter. Read the latest newsletter here.