Our Senior Consultancy Team

John is a senior consultant at Pennington Choices within the Housing Consultancy Team, working on arrangements pertaining to housing strategy and policy, housing management and maintenance.  John's role with includes policy and organisational development, Best Value assessments and mock inspections, option appraisal, value for money and efficiency studies, business planning, and interim management at a senior level.  

John brings with him over 35 years experience working in social housing, having cut his teeth in housing working in some of the most challenging areas of Manchester over 13 years. Moving to Salford, he rose to Deputy Director before moving on to set up Salford's ALMO and becoming its first Chief Executive. John became a consultant with Pennington Choices in 2003.

James is a senior consultant at Pennington Choices, specialising in service delivery, organisational development, HR and business development issues.  Having come to the RSL world later on in his career, James has had a variety of roles since joining Pennington. He has worked with Gateshead Council on ensuring owner/occupiers were fully aware of improvements being made to their properties through grant funding. This involved a large deal of liaison between all parties concerned and eventually culminated in James getting owner/occupiers to sign up to the proposed changes.

James has also worked in Leek with Moorlands Housing as part of an accounting review.  His main task was to re-write the personnel budget for the next year in light of accountancy changes implemented by Pennington Choices.  He is currently acting as the Interim Member Services Manager for Procurement For All Group (PFA) Ltd. PFA is a national based consortia comprising of eleven RSLs with stock number in excess of 90,000 units. James has been instrumental in helping the membership identify their ongoing procurement requirements for the next five years.

Rosie provides specialist finance and commercial management consultancy advice and support to clients and project manages actions arising from the reports.  Rosie is also responsible for co-ordinating the work of the finance team within Pennington Choices.  She has undertaken a variety of roles involving provision of financial consultancy to housing associations, local authorities and commercial organisations. She also manages annual benchmarking exercises for gas services and on behalf of Housemark. 

Rosie started her career as an internal auditor within the NHS, after which she moved into the commercial arena by taking the role of Management Accountant and Commercial Manager in manufacturing, this offered a wider scope including responsibility for finance, pre production, warehousing and sales tenders.