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The Empty Homes Conference 2019: Awards Extended, Delegate Spaces Still Available

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With just over a week to go until the National Empty Homes Conference 2019, we are edging closer to capacity but there are still a few delegate spaces available, with bookings being taken up until 5pm on Tuesday 24th with the submission of a completed booking form. 

We have also extended the deadline for four of our award categories, so please feel free to get your submission in soon, and don't be put off nominating yourself for one of our awards, as we know that empty homes officers often work alone or in teams of 1! Nominations for these awards are now being accepted up until 23:59 on Friday 20th September.

The extended categories are:

- Empty Homes Practitioner of the Year, Sponsored by No Use Empty: Kent

The Empty Homes Conference 2019 - Our Gold Supporters

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The Empty Homes Network is pleased to announce this year’s Conference Gold Supporters, as No Use Empty: Kent, and Anglia Research. Further information on this year’s Conference, our Speakers and how to book, can be found here.

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No Use Empty remains committed to reducing the numbers of long-term empty properties through a range of interventions, returning in excess of 6,047 since launching in 2005.  

Delivered by Kent County Council in partnership with all 12 district councils it provides an exemplar model which can be replicated. 

Empty Homes Awards 2019 - Open for submissions

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We are pleased to announce that the Empty Homes Awards 2019 are now open for submissions.

There are Six Award categories this year that cover a wide range of empty homes activities. 

The Awards will be presented to the winners at the Empty Homes Conference in Birmingham on 25th September. We look forward to revealing their identifies then!

The Six Award categories and this year's Award sponsors are as follows:

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Orbis Protect joins forces with E.ON to bring private homes back into use

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Leading property protection provider Orbis Protect has joined forces with E.ON, one of the UK's top energy suppliers, to support its drive to tackle the UK’s housing shortage by bringing empty homes back into use.

Orbis Protect is partnering with E.ON on the scheme and will provide specialist clearance and cleaning of any empty properties, externally and internally.

https enabled to give users more secure access

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A more secure protocol has been implemented for accessing the EHN website

This is the 'https' or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, replacing the previous 'http' protocol.

https is now regarded as the standard for websites that involve payments or where users enter passwords. It means all traffic from your browser to the website is encrypted.

See www.howtogeek.com/181767/htg-explains-what-is-https-and-why-should-i-care/ for further information.

2019 Conference Line-up - Updated

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Planning and preparation is well under way for the National Empty Homes Conference, to be held in Birmingham on Wednesday 25th September, 2019.

As always, a strong and varied speaker line-up includes presentations from:

- Kerrie Eastman; Streets2Homes & Harlow Council

Using Council owned empty properties to help homelessness

Projects and Empty Homes Officers sought for the BBC's Empty Housing Scandal, Series 2

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Production company TwoFour are seeking Empty Homes Projects and Officers for a second series of their successful BBC1 Series, The Empty Housing Scandal.

After producing a very popular 5 episode series highlighting both the scale of the problem, as well as the incredible work done by officers up and down the Country, TwoFour have been commissioned to produce a second series, this time running for 10 episodes.

Steve Grogan, of TwoFour:

BBC - The Empty Housing Scandal

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