For housing association community teams
Your community work changes lives.
Now you can prove it.
Nectis helps you map the relationships in your community, measure how they change over time, and turn that into the evidence your regulator and funders are asking for.
The challenge
Great work. Hard to evidence.
Your team runs programmes that change how people relate to each other, to their neighbourhood, and to the services around them. But when it comes to proving that to a funder or a regulator, the tools let you down.
Attendance counts tell you who was in the room. Satisfaction surveys tell you people had a nice time. Neither tells you what actually changed in your community. Are people more connected than they were? Are isolated tenants engaging with new groups? Are your programmes building the kinds of relationships that last?
How Nectis helps
From programme delivery to hard evidence.
Map what exists, measure what changes, report what matters.
See your community's real network
Map the connections between tenants, groups, and services. See who is connected, who is isolated, and where the gaps are. Do it at the start of a programme, then again after, and show exactly what changed.
Track change over time
One snapshot tells you where things stand. Two tell you the direction of travel. Build a longitudinal evidence base that shows how your community is developing, not just whether people showed up.
Generate reports for your annual return
Turn connection data into structured evidence. Report on tenant participation, partnership working, and community outcomes with numbers that stand up to scrutiny.
Show funders what their money did
Before-and-after comparisons, connection growth by type, programme-level summaries. Give funders the hard data they need to renew, and the story that makes it compelling.
Real results
Used by housing associations and community teams across Scotland.
These are real deployments with real data, not pilots that went nowhere.
New Gorbals HA
Glasgow
The longest continuous deployment on the platform. Tracked community networks through regeneration, Covid response, and demographic change in one of Glasgow's most diverse neighbourhoods.
Govanhill HA
Glasgow
A tenant participation programme that reached communities conventional methods couldn't. The network was mapped five times across the year, and the work led to 2 new social enterprises and 2 new registered tenant organisations.
Aberdeenshire Council
Aberdeenshire
The largest team deployment on the platform. CLD practitioners mapped 501 connections, identified where partnership working needed strengthening, and rolled the approach out to new localities.
Beyond the ARC
Evidence your regulator can trust.
The Scottish Social Housing Charter expects community outcomes: participation, neighbourhood cohesion, equalities. But the ARC measures those through satisfaction surveys and activity counts. That gap between what you’re supposed to achieve and what you’re asked to prove leaves your best work invisible.
Nectis fills that gap. Instead of narrative assertions about tenant engagement, you report with structured evidence of how community connections actually changed. Data your board, your regulator, and your funders can trust, because it’s specific, verified, and measured over time.
The Community Wealth Building Act names housing associations as anchor institutions. The Act doesn’t cover HAs directly yet, but councils are producing CWB action plans and will look to anchor organisations for evidence of community impact. Getting ahead of that means better decisions now, not just better answers later.
Tenants and other customers find it easy to participate in and influence their landlord's decisions.
Nectis maps who is participating and how they are connected, not just how many attended.
Tenants and other customers live in well-maintained neighbourhoods where they feel safe.
Community network data shows whether neighbourhood connections are growing stronger or getting thinner over time.
Every tenant and other customer has their individual needs recognised, is treated fairly and with respect.
Connection data reveals whether different groups are connected or siloed, going beyond demographic counts.
"Nectis really helped make the case for our partnership approach and is now helping to extend the impact of the programme in other localities."
18 frontline workers used Nectis to map 501 connections and reshape resource allocation across localities.
See what it looks like with your community's data.
30-minute walkthrough with real examples from housing associations and community development teams.
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