NHER / SAVA Seek Group Hugs With DEAs & HIs

Dear Mathew,
I am a SAVA trained HI working from home in Tavistock, Devon.
I am Secretary of the DCHI (Devon & Cornwall Home Inspectors association)which I helped found in July 2006. We are a well established and constituted organisation with about 80 Members, split roughly 50/50 HIs & DEAs, spread throughout the counties and we meet once a month to discuss and update ourselves on progress of the industry and for mutual learning with frequent Guest Speakers and, of course, for a pint and a pie !. We have a Members Forum on our website - www.dchi.org.uk - which enables constant group communication and debate. The DCHI is intentioanlly not a commercial entity and therefore is not in conflict with the commercial interests of its members. There are several commercial partnerships or similar which have set up from their association with DCHI and our name is quite widely respected here in the South West. Above all, the DCHI has been a fabulous opportunity for westcountry networking and support, and has built some very vaulable and long lasting relationships both inside and outside the association.
We are currently building our relationships with the IHI in order to have a voice on a national scale. We also have had some contact with similar groups but no real established links - so perhaps NHER/SAVA can help here - it sounds very promising.
I would be very pleased to hear back from you with your suggestions as to how this may be progressed and whether DCHI can offer some useful input.
You would be very welcome to attend any of our meetings as our Guest and perhaps this would be a very good way forward. Please feel free to call me at any time.
Yours sincerely,
Tim Baxter
Secretary DCHI
01822 617345
07872 110 551