Our Partnerships Team
At Prosper, we believe in the power of collaboration and the value of working together to achieve more.
Laura Balaam-Wiseman, Collaboration Director at Prosper, leads the organisation’s collaborative partnerships strategy, driving innovative programmes that bring members, contractors and supply chain partners together to deliver greater value across the housing sector.
Supported by Brittany Pipe, Collaboration Manager, and Finn Johnson, Collaboration Executive, the team develops and manages large-scale collaborative initiatives designed to improve efficiency, maximise investment, reduce resident disruption and create long-term social value for communities.
Through strategic collaboration, shared procurement opportunities and partnership-led delivery models, Prosper enables members to benefit from collective expertise, stronger buying power and sustainable sector-wide outcomes.
For more information, please contact us at info@prosper.uk.com
Meet the team
North East Housing Partnership
At Prosper, we are supporting social landlord members of the North East Housing Partnership (NEHP) to encourage greater collaboration that will provide a number of opportunities, including:
- Efficiency of programme delivery – cost synergy, reduced resident disruption
- Optimal use of Consultant and Installation resources through planning and sharing
- Material cost savings – buy in bulk or from lowest cost partner
- Sharing and implementing best practice, learning the lessons of others
- Keeping North East spend in North East economies
- Constructing a ‘Skills Gap’ Social Value Strategy utilising NEHP residents wherever possible
- Place the North East at the forefront of excellence nationally building credibility with funding partner for ‘delivering on our promises’
For more information, please contact us at info@prosper.uk.com
Working with leading kitchen manufacturer JTC Furniture, eight members of the North East Housing Partnership (NEHP) are pooling their planned investment programmes for new kitchens, which is expected to provide savings of over £10m over the next ten years.
JTC Kitchen Collaboration case study
In 2023, we forged a strategic partnership with NHC Procurement (a division of the Northern Housing Consortium), unlocking access to a broader range of procurement frameworks and DPS solutions for hundreds of landlords across the UK.
Prosper and NHC have worked together to forge Collaborative Partnership opportunities. NHC bring their policy and secretariat services to support the continued development of Housing Partnerships Collaboration opportunities which are perfectly complimented by Prosper who provide procurement expertise and have created numerous Collaborative Partnership models which optimise value creation across multiple workstreams. A great example of the two organisations bringing their individual specialisms together for the greater good of the sector is through the NEHP 10-year kitchen partnership with JTC. This partnership is anticipated to see 70,000 kitchens assembled, supplied and distributed to Landlords across the North East and Yorkshire saving around £10m over the next ten years. Prosper and NHC anticipate this will be the first collaborative partnership outcome of many to come.
