Welcome to Innisfree

Members of Innisfree's Tenant Scrutiny Panel (from L-R) Bernadette Gallagher, Sue O'Connor, Geraldine Gordon, Margaret Carroll, Des Browne, Gerry Shanahan and Jacqui Buchanan. (Not pictured:Jennifer Rahman).

WELCOME to Innisfree's website. We hope that whether you're a new visitor or an old friend you will find what you're looking for. Innisfree is one of around 1,200 housing associations operating in England. If you want to know more about housing associations, visit the National Housing Federation website.

We are one of the smaller ones, with just over 500 homes in our ownership. However, we are continuing to grow slowly and surely. But growth isn't everything; we pride ourselves on our high quality services and the high opinion in which our tenants hold us. Their views are set out in the recent tenants' survey. We have an active Tenant Scrutiny Panel (pictured) whose remit is to ensure that our service standards meet up to tenants' expectations.

We are deeply concerned about the impact of the government's cuts on our tenants and about many of the other proposed changes which are likely to change the face of public housing quite dramatically. We will do whatever we can to alleviate the difficulties which the cuts are likely to cause.

If you have time to look through our website and read some of our reports, you will see that our primary mission is and always has been to address the needs of the Irish community in London. More than ten years on from the CRE report, Discrimination and the Irish community, it is sad to say that some of our tenants still experience anti-Irish harassment. Many others have problems accessing the services to which they are entitled. We believe firmly that there is still a need for specialist providers such as Innisfree and other BME associations. Campaigning remains firmly at the top of our agenda. If you want to work with us, please get in touch.

Clare Winstanley