Chief Executive Officer, Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH)
Treasurer, Co-operative Housing International (CHI)
Board Member, International Co-operative Alliance (ICA)
Blase moved into a housing co-operative in 1996, became a CCH Board member in 1997 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2014.
He has been the Treasurer of Co-operative Housing International since 2017 and the housing representative on the Board of the International Co-operative Alliance since 2022.
He has provided support and advice to over 175 housing co-operatives and social housing providers in the UK, has developed accredited training programmes for housing co-operative boards and community led housing advisors and co-created the Wayshaper options planning tool for community led housing organisations.
His areas of expertise are corporate governance, risk management and financial control and he has numerous publications to his name including the Code of Governance for Housing Co-operatives and Financing Co-operative and Mutual Housing.
