Owned by four south west social housing providers – Abri, LiveWest, North Devon Homes and Ocean Housing – Advantage South West operates a central purchasing body which arranges procurement contracts for its members.

They include: Abri, Coastline Housing, Cornwall Housing, Cornwall Rural Housing Association, East Devon District Council, Exeter City Council, Homes in Sedgemoor, LiveWest, Magna Housing Group, Mid Devon District Council, North Devon Homes, Ocean Housing, Plymouth Community Homes, SHAL Housing, Somerset West and Taunton Council, Teign Housing, TorVista and Westward Housing Group.

For more information about Advantage South West please contact neil.biddiscombe@abri.co.uk

Aggregation is giving the sector a joined-up voice to say, ‘these are the products we need, this is the diversity of the client group that we house, our customer base, and so these are the products we need to make MMC work’.

Stephen Lodge
Member of the Advantage South West Management Team and Executive Director of Development & Strategic Asset Management
Abri