50YEARSOF COMMUNITYIMPACT

50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY IMPACT

The History of Trident

By Kevin Gulliver

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY IMPACT

The History of Trident Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By Kevin Gulliver

Published December 2012 ISBN 978-1-906149-21-5

50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY IMPACT

Contents

Foreword by Fred Slater

01

Retired Trident Board member and former Chair

Introduction by Mike Pritty

03

Chair Trident Social Investment Group

Yesterday 1962 to 2001

05

Today 2002 to 2009

15

Tomorrow 2010 and Beyond

22

Trident's Mission and Values

30

Trident's Corporate Ambitions

31

Trident's Social Investment Objectives

31

FOREWORD

Foreword

Fred Slater Retired Trident Board member and former Chair (1992-2002)

Since I became a Trident Board member in May 1992, there has been great change at Trident. There has been even greater change since 1962 when Trident's first incarnation as the Templefield Housing Association came into being. The housing world in which Trident now operates is unrecognisable from the one existing in 1962. Housing associations manage more than half of the nation's four million social homes and are big and complex social businesses suspended between state, market and community. More change is required if Trident is to meet the increasing needs of those who require our services in the current prolonged economic recession and the austerity measures imposed on us.

Trident is one of the oldest housing association groups in the Midlands. It was originally a cost-rent and co-ownership housing society but since the 1970s has been meeting needs in some of the Midlands most disadvantaged communities. Yet while Trident has lived through an eventful five decades of housing, economic and social policy, it has consistently provided groundbreaking housing developments across the Midlands.

Despite these housing achievements, my most precious memories of Trident do not necessarily centre upon bricks and mortar. From the outset, Trident has been about people ? our customers ? tenants, residents and service-users ? and the stakeholders in our success such as local authorities, funders and regulators, other housing associations, health and care providers, voluntary and community agencies and my fellow Board members.

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