Maintaining Momentum – Delivering Homes for All
This year’s ICSH National Social Housing Conference, Maintaining Momentum – Delivering Homes for All, will take place in The Slieve Russell Hotel Golf & Country Club, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan on October 15th and 16th 2025.
Conference Theme
This year, we will have a particular focus on delivery beyond general needs. The AHB sector grew initially from groups of voluntary bodies building small housing schemes for older people across the country. When the ICSH was established, we began calling for an expansion of the sector to provide housing for a
growing older population as well as the opportunity for older and disabled people to move from larger to smaller homes in supported settings.
- Our Conference this year looks at how we can ensure delivery for all.
- We will have a focus on Finance. How can we secure adequate funding and what are the roadblocks?
- We will focus too on multi-agency approaches and the importance of the AHB relationship with local authorities, the HSE and other key partners and stakeholders.
- And harnessing the lived experience of individuals and households with additional needs and showcasing models of best practice to create value, guide decision-making and improve outcomes.
Since our last Biennial Conference, the AHB sector has worked with Government on sector funding, specifically the CALF and CREL funding models, resulting in sustained delivery to 2024 and a robust pipeline. We have also raised the issue of reduced delivery of CAS funded homes (specifically for vulnerable households), the lengthy application and approval processes, as well as the challenging funding environment for CAS delivery, such as shortfalls in incomes to cover the rising costs of these home in the long-term.
It remains a key challenge for the AHB sector to both deliver on targets for general needs social and affordable housing, and ensure that the delivery of homes for households with additional needs is not left behind. Since the early days of the AHB sector this has been both our core value and our differentiator, and it must remain so.
Download the advance ICSH 2025 conference programme here
ICSH Community Housing Awards 2025
The ICSH Community Housing Awards offers a platform to demonstrate innovation and sustainability in public housing projects that our approved housing bodies members, local authority partners and the Land Development Agency deliver for communities across the country. The 2025 Awards recognise excellence across eight individual categories. Category entries are from both urban and rural projects that communicate the diversity of affordable housing being delivered across the country.
Winners will be announced at the ICSH National Housing Conference at 4pm on Wednesday 15th October 2025 in the Slieve Russell Hotel, Cavan.
Registration
Attendees are advised that they must reserve a conference place directly with the Irish Council for Social Housing to allow entrance to the conference.
Conference Fees:
- ICSH Member Organisation : €285
- Private Organisation: €375
- Voluntary : €325
- Statutory Body (including local authorities and elected members): €325
The conference fee includes conference documentation, lunches and conference dinner. Overnight accommodation or travel costs are not included. Each delegate will be booking and paying their own hotel account.
The conference will take place all day Wednesday 15th October 2025 and half day on Thursday 16th October 2025. The conference dinner is on Wednesday 15th October 2025. Attendees are advised to reserve accommodation directly with their hotel (accommodation details below).
Organisations will be invoiced for registered delegates. An invoice will be forwarded from quickbooks@notification.intuit.com
Download the advance ICSH 2025 conference programme here
Accommodation
Please note: accommodation at the Slieve Russell Hotel is now fully booked. Please find alternative accommodation options below. If booking overnight accommodation, accommodation is for Tuesday 14th October 2025 and Wednesday 15th October 2025.
Hotels
Hotel Kilmore
Dublin Road,
Co. Cavan,
Ireland
H12 F6Y7
Tel: +353 (0)49 4332288
rate of €129 bed and breakfast per room per night
Cavan Crystal Hotel
Dublin Road Cavan
H12 P6E5
Phone: +353 494360600
rate of €278.00 for 2 nights Bed & Breakfast per double/ twin room and a rate of €258.00 2 nights Bed & Breakfast per single rooms.
Farnham Estate, Cavan, Ireland H12 H6Y8
Phone: 049 4377700
B&Bs
Dungimmon House Ballyconnell – 7 rooms on the 14th / 5 rooms on the 15th available
049 9526479
https://www.dungimmonhouse.ie/
3 minute drive
7 rooms on the 14th
5 rooms on the 15th
Rate: €109 B&B per room
Lake Avenue House B&B – 3 rooms – En suite €60 per night
Website: https://lakeavenuehouse.com/
13 minute drive from Slieve Russell Hotel
Ballyconnell, Cavan, H14 YP73
3km from Bawnboy
087 9670353
lakeavenuehouse@gmail.com
Terms and Conditions
Once booked places may not be cancelled. All Bookings must be paid for prior to conference.
Conference fees includes entry for one person per ticket. If you are unable to attend, you can send a substitute participant instead, at no additional charge. Details of the substituted delegate must be submitted to the ICSH prior to the event. Please send the details to mairead@icsh.ie
Failure to attend requires full payment.
We intend to photograph this event. Any photographs will be used only for our own publications. We are organising our events in line with government guidance and should any of the conference arrangements change, we will be in touch.
Badges and attendee list with names, job titles and organisation will be available during the conference to facilitate networking.