Projects 24 - 33
Staffordshire County Council - Supporting People
The idea of this project is to hold an exhibition/open day to involve supported housing tenants in the Government's Supporting People programme.
The exhibition was a range of photographs that displayed the answers to a range of questions such as, 'What do you like about supported housing?', 'What would your ideal housing situation look like?'
Volunteers were given disposable cameras to take the photographs and be included in the design to ensure that it represented their views correctly.
TAROE - Tenants & Residents Database, Video Links & Website
This project is in three parts - a database, a video link and a website. The database will break new ground as it will bring tenants and resident representatives together from Local Authorities as well as Housing Associations.
The website will provide direct information and the video links will allow communities to make decisions together - helping them steer a national tenants' body to the next development stage. The aim is to get tenants to speak to each other across the country and to support each other.
Bradford District Tenants & Residents Federation - Community Cohesion
The aim of the project sought to support new and existing BME tenants and residents by removing barriers to involvement in community structures, starting with tenants and residents' groups.
This innovative partnership between an LSP and local tenants groups drew a clear link between community cohesion and area regeneration through the involvement of local people. The outcome was a successfully developed and implemented Area Based Cohesion plan.
TP Herts/Riversmead - Promoting Tenant Involvement
The project has developed a website which includes translations and sound clips in different languages to inform and encourage involvement of potentially excluded groups, including none-English speakers and those with the facility for tenant groups to create their own website. Tenant group meetings were filmed and monthly training sessions were developed along with an online library.
Slough Borough Council - STAR (Slough Temporary Accommodation Residents)
The aim of this project was to give temporary accommodation tenants the same services as those available to secure tenants.
This helped to restore temporary accommodation tenants' pride and dignity with minimal emotional disruption in desperate situations for some families. To ensure all views and opinions are covered a childrens tenants' group was also set up.
HouseMark - TMO Benchmarking
The project co-ordinated and developed a benchmarking model to allow TMOs to compare their performance, issues of governance and cost effectiveness. This model and methodology is available from the National Federation of TMOs.
Hillingdon Homes - Repair Responsibilities
This project explored practical ways to increase tenants' ability to be able to carry out their repair responsibilities either by acquiring the skills to do the work or by finding reliable sources to help. The project encouraged tenant participation and community building.
Bridgenorth District Council - Mobile Exhibition
Tenants throughout the district were asked to submit any old photographs of people, places and events in the district.
These were used to create a mobile exhibition - the aim was to encourage people to become involved in community activities and to raise awareness of opportunities for involvement and participation.
Preston City Council - Community Gateway Model
This project is about developing a Community Empowerment Strategy in Preston as a vital precursor to the development of the new Community Gateway Model for stock transfer.
It is an innovative approach to empowering communities as part of a stock transfer process in order to promote significant improvement to tenants' homes and to ensure their active involvement in regeneration of areas and the development of sustainable communities.
Ashford Borough Council - Tenant's Diversity Pack
A pack was developed for use by tenants and community groups to contain information, exercises, games etc, enabling groups to challenge discriminatory views expressed by individuals to help change opinions and to provide confidence to expel people unwilling to abide by the quality elements of the group's constitution.
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