Our board and executive team
The board provides leadership, direction, support and challenge.
Our governance structure includes a board of non-executive and executive board members. The board provides leadership, direction, support and challenge. Our executive team is responsible for delivering services. You can see our organisation's governance and committee structure chart at the bottom of this page.
We also have an Audit and Assurance Committee which operates on these terms of reference and a People and Culture Committee which operates on these terms of reference.
Compliance with consumer standards
We have joint leads for this responsibility:
- Chief Investment Officer focuses on the safety and quality standard
- Chief Customer and Communities Officer focuses on transparency, influence and accountability, tenancy, and neighbourhood and community.
Customers sit on our scrutiny group to review our services in line with our commitment to co-regulation.
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Stephen Lodge, Chief Executive
Stephen has worked in housing for more than 30 years. He has been chief executive at Westward Housing Group since October 2024. Prior to joining Westward, Stephen is an experienced board and executive member and has worked in the housing sector for more than 30 years. His experience has been built with a range of housing associations and a local authority, where he has held roles in housing management, strategy and policy, development, asset management, planned investment and response repairs.
He is passionate about delivering a great service that respects and recognises diversity of need, and of belief. Stemming from the very start of his career, working in direct access hostels for the homeless, Stephen appreciates how having access to a safe and secure home and an appropriate support network, be that friends, family, or professionals, can be the catalyst for so many other life chances. Outside of work Stephen volunteers with the Samaritans.
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Stephen Lodge, Chief Executive
Stephen has worked in housing for more than 30 years. He has been chief executive at Westward Housing Group since October 2024. Prior to joining Westward, Stephen is an experienced board and executive member and has worked in the housing sector for more than 30 years. His experience has been built with a range of housing associations and a local authority, where he has held roles in housing management, strategy and policy, development, asset management, planned investment and response repairs.
He is passionate about delivering a great service that respects and recognises diversity of need, and of belief. Stemming from the very start of his career, working in direct access hostels for the homeless, Stephen appreciates how having access to a safe and secure home and an appropriate support network, be that friends, family, or professionals, can be the catalyst for so many other life chances. Outside of work Stephen volunteers with the Samaritans.
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Stephen Lodge, Chief Executive
Stephen has worked in housing for more than 30 years. He has been chief executive at Westward Housing Group since October 2024. Prior to joining Westward, Stephen is an experienced board and executive member and has worked in the housing sector for more than 30 years. His experience has been built with a range of housing associations and a local authority, where he has held roles in housing management, strategy and policy, development, asset management, planned investment and response repairs.
He is passionate about delivering a great service that respects and recognises diversity of need, and of belief. Stemming from the very start of his career, working in direct access hostels for the homeless, Stephen appreciates how having access to a safe and secure home and an appropriate support network, be that friends, family, or professionals, can be the catalyst for so many other life chances. Outside of work Stephen volunteers with the Samaritans.
Our governance and committee structure chart
