National Hoarding Conference 2026
Who’s the ‘Guide’?
14 May, 2026
This year’s conference was a virtual online platform.
HoardingUK is working in partnership with other relevant professionals to have the UK government draw up coherent guidelines about the support and management of hoarding behaviour.
Our question for the year’s conference is Who’s the ‘Guide‘?
HoardingUK has always driven user-led engagement. For this conversation, people with hoarding behaviour, informal support community and professional views all need to be heard.
Join us for an interactive event exploring this important issue.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Dr Lynne Drummond (Prof), author ‘Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding’
- Abbi Hilton, FHEA, REnH, MCIEH, MSc, BSc (Hons), Senior Lecturer Environmental Health
£10 ticket fee supports our work, but is not required.
Draft Agenda
MORNING
10:00
Opening Discussion
Megan Karnes, Founder/Chair, HoardingUK
Kat Band, Director, Hoarding Disorders UK
Discussion about why seek National Guidelines?
11:00
What is the relationship with diagnosis and support?
Dr Lynne Drummond (Prof) will explore an overview of psychiatric considerations of hoarding behaviour – focusing on the challenges to giving and receiving the diagnosis today.
12:00
Break
12:10
Environmental ‘Mental Health’
Abbi Hilton, currently undertaking hoarding related research will explore how current practice does, and/or does not meet its duty to consider spatial risk with parity to the risk that any intervention may have on the person.
AFTERNOON
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00
What do we mean when we say ‘UK’ Guidelines
Panel discussion about ensuring that the devolved nations are at the forefront of developing the framework in a Great Britain intersectional mindset from the start.
14:50
Break
15:00
Group discussion about key themes moving forward
15:30
Closing and next steps
The conference will be followed by HoardingUK AGM. Please register separately for that event.
