Orbit Homes group director joins HBF board

Helen Moore, group director of Midlands-based housing association Orbit Homes, has joined the Home Builders Federation board.

Moore will attend her first HBF board meeting on 13 March 2024.

Orbit hired her as its managing director in 2018 to grow their land-led, direct-build capability. In March 2021, she was promoted to group director.

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Orbit Group manages a portfolio of over 47,000 affordable and social rent homes across the Midlands, East Anglia and the South-east. 

Prior to this, Moore was managing director at City & Country for almost 10 years. She also worked at Countryside for over 15 years as head of corporate communications and in sales and marketing roles.

The HBF is a trade association representing private sector home builders in England and Wales. HBF member firms account for some 80% of all new homes built in England and Wales in any one year.

Moore said: “The HBF plays a vital role in ensuring our industry is well represented with key decision makers. With an election approaching, a challenging economic and regulatory backdrop and the acute housing crisis across all tenures, this is a critical time for the industry to get its voice heard.

“I therefore look forward to working with my fellow board members to ensure HBF continues to represent its members proactively and effectively. I am very keen to play may part in creating an environment within which we can build the high quality, energy efficient new homes the country so desperately needs, at pace.”