Arneil Johnston Housing Association Scotland

ABOUT ARNEIL JOHNSTON

Founded in 1996, Arneil Johnston is the longest standing and most successful specialist housing consultancy in Scotland. We are a reputable, talented and diverse team with extensive experience of all aspects of social housing planning and delivery.

Our company was established with the aim of providing quality consultancy services in housing, finance and change management to the public sector in Scotland. Our Scottish focus enables us to remain responsive to a changing policy and regulatory environment.

We deliver services that are both business focused and socially ethical and we aim to add value to the social landlords we work for and the communities they serve. Over the last 3 decades, we have successfully delivered over 1,700 projects and have unparalleled experience working with Scottish social landlords.

We are professional, approachable and good at engaging others. We are highly committed to skills transfer, building the capacity of our team and are proud to have Platinum ‘Investors in People’ accreditation.

SERVICES

WHAT WE SPECIALISE IN

Our vision is simple: "we enable the Scottish Housing Sector to embrace change and improve."

We have a reputation for innovation, integrity and providing solutions that deliver the best value.

We offer support that is business focused, socially ethical and we aim to add value and skill to our client space. We specialise in:

Strategic planning and Local Housing Strategy Development.

Land use planning and Housing & Demand Assessment.

Housing market research and housing affordability studies.

Homelessness and RRTP delivery planning.

30-year business planning, strategy and financial management.

Integrated asset management.

Rent and service charge review.

Housing improvement, process and service review.

Housing transformation and organisational review.

We are accountable for always doing the right thing.

We push the boundaries to continually add value.

We take the complex and make it simple.

We are customer focused and always go the extra mile.

CORE VALUES

OUR TEAM

MEET THE TEAM

We pride ourselves on being a team of ‘practitioner professionals’ with extensive hands on
experience and strategic vision. We are proud of our frontline housing experience and
understand the political, social, financial and economic challenges that Scottish housing professionals currently face.

Managing Director

Donna Milton

Donna has been part of the Arneil Johnston team for over 20 years and has responsibility for the delivery of all consultancy services, as well as the direction and management of the company. She specialises in housing strategy, land use planning, housing transformation, governing body development and homelessness.

dmilton@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Director

Elaine Byrne

Elaine has extensive experience across the Scottish social housing sector in a career spanning three decades. As a CIPFA qualified accountant, she specialises in 30-year business planning, integrated asset management, development funding analysis, strategic option appraisal and business improvement review.

ebyrne@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Business Manager

Laura Mitchell

Laura manages the day to day operations of the business and is responsible for financial
management, client liaison, event management, employee wellbeing, marketing and client
communication. She is the first point of contact for all customer and partner enquiries and is the glue that holds Arneil Johnston together!

lmitchell@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Housing Consultant

Gillian Lunn

Gillian has worked in the social housing sector for over 20 years and has significant operational, strategy, policy planning and engagement experience. She specialises in stakeholder engagement, rent and service charge review, housing affordability assessments,
homelessness strategy, transformational change, and service review.

glunn@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Housing Analyst

Joanna Hodge

Anna developed impressive analytical and research skills whist attaining an immunology degree and engaging in cancer research placements in the Beatson Institute. Having successfully completed a 12-month internship, Anna has joined the team full time supporting the execution of all housing research and analytical projects, including housing affordability analysis, housing needs and demand assessment, rent and service charge analysis and housing market analysis

jhodge@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Housing Analyst

Greg Leyden

Greg has recently joined Arneil Johnston as an Analyst Consultant, responsible for analytics, visualisation and delivering data-driven insights in the delivery of housing policy and strategy projects. Greg holds a BA Honours in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and brings experience in the market research sector to Arneil Johnston’s skillset. His main areas of expertise lie in insight generation and strategic thinking, supported by strong skills in both qualitative and quantitative research

gleyden@arneil-johnston.co.uk

Data Analyst

Sophie Quinn

Sophie is in the final year of a Statistics degree at the University of Glasgow and is currently delivering a research project on forecasting housing need using machine learning, in partnership with University College London. Sophie’s core competencies include assembling and cleansing data sets and generating insights via statistical analysis. She is highly skilled in data analytics, processing and modelling and supports the team across a wide range of consultancy projects.

squinn@arneil-johnston.co.uk