Linda Leslie

I joined Kingdom after a long and varied career in housing. My experience covered housing management and regulation as well as developing policy and legislation for both the social and private rented sectors. Kingdom’s work and ethos matched my own values and my commitment to good quality, sustainable, affordable housing underpinned by great customer service. The breadth of my experience has allowed me to influence and encourage progress from within Kingdom.

I’ve helped to set the organisation’s strategic direction since 2015, enabling Kingdom to grow in size, success and influence. I am a passionate advocate for the central role that affordable housing has in tackling both child poverty and fuel poverty as well as the wider positive impact that Kingdom has in communities through its employability, advice and homelessness projects. I hope to be able to build on this in the coming years by continuing to highlight the importance of investment in affordable housing and of the wider housing association sector in creating cohesive, thriving communities.

When I’m not busy with Kingdom, I am a volunteer guide with the National Trust for Scotland at Falkland Palace. I really enjoy meeting people from all over the world and sharing the stories of the Palace’s long history.

Being retired has given me time to follow longstanding interests as well as to explore new ones and I do this inspired by these words of the late, great Maya Angelou - “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with compassion, some humour and some style."

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KHA Chair & KSC Director Joined Sep 2015

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